Brands
Campus Activewear achieves 200 stores milestone across India
Mumbai: Campus Activewear, sports and athleisure footwear brand has announced a major milestone in its journey towards expansion and growth by achieving the landmark of 200 stores across India. The company opened its first exclusive outlet in Kochi at Lulu Mall as a testament to its commitment to providing high-quality, fashionable, and affordable activewear to customers.
Campus Activewear, began its retail journey in 2017, with the opening of 35 brand outlets till 2020. Since then, the brand has continued to thrive and expand, with a strong focus on retail expansion, opening 100 stores last year. Today, Campus has reached 200 stores across India, making its products more accessible to customers than ever before.
To mark this milestone, Campus Activewear has opened its first exclusive brand outlet in Kochi, at the prestigious Lulu Mall. The outlet boasts a contemporary design, reflecting the brand’s commitment to a fashion-forward active wear. The new store will showcase the latest collections and exclusive designs, providing customers with an unparalleled shopping experience. The outlet launch is a part of the brand’s growth journey from continuously driving fashion forward narrative and adopting a multi-channel sales approach to add value to the customer’s brand journey while serving the latent demand.
Campus Activewear Ltd CEO Nikhil Aggarwal said, “We are excited to announce the launch of our first exclusive outlet in Lulu Mall of Kochi, which also marks our momentous 200 store milestone across India. This remarkable achievement is a reflection of our unwavering dedication to delivering footwear that seamlessly blends quality, style, and affordability. Our newly inaugurated outlet boasts a state-of-the-art shopping experience that promises to elevate our customer’s retail experience. With better brand visibility, accessible pricing, and increased customer touch-points, we are committed to ensure highest level of customer satisfaction.”
With the support of all customers and stakeholders, Campus honours that the fondness for its products, quality, and design has grown exponentially across cities and towns. Evolving with time, Campus aims to boost confident self-expression and raise shoe consciousness in youth. As an ambition, Campus Activewear aims to emerge as the most preferred athleisure brand in India, and bets big on design and product innovation every single time to provide fashion for consumers’ feet.
Brands
YES Bank appoints S Anantharaman as chief risk officer
Former Jio Financial Services group chief risk officer takes charge of enterprise-wide risk at the embattled private lender
MUMBAI: YES Bank is not taking chances with risk anymore. The private lender has appointed S Anantharaman as its chief risk officer, a hire that signals the bank’s continued effort to rebuild credibility and tighten the controls that once famously slipped.
Anantharaman arrives from Jio Financial Services, where he served as group chief risk officer and built a risk management architecture spanning lending, payments, insurance broking and asset management from the ground up. Before that, he held the chief risk officer role at Bank of Baroda and senior leadership positions at HDFC Bank and L&T Finance Holdings. Three decades in banking and financial services, in other words, with scars and qualifications to match. He is a chartered accountant and a CFA charterholder.
At YES Bank, his brief is considerable. Anantharaman will oversee the bank’s entire enterprise-wide risk framework, covering credit policy, market risk, operational risk, information security, data governance, analytics, model governance and data privacy. It is, in short, every lever that matters when a bank is trying to prove it has grown up.
YES Bank’s turbulent past needs little rehearsing. What it needs now is exactly what Anantharaman has spent thirty years building: the kind of risk culture that stops problems before they become headlines. The appointment suggests the bank knows it.
