Smriti Irani to be Chief Guest of Honor at The Ad Club’s 'Marquees 2017'

The Advertising Club, today, announced that the Hon’ble Minister for Textiles and Information & Broadcasting, Smt. Smriti Irani will be the Chief Guest of Honor at the inaugural version of Marquees 2017.

 The 63 years’ old The Advertising Club is the premier institution in the field of Advertising, Marketing and Media and is host to some of the industry’s biggest events like the EFFIES, EMVIES and ABBY’s. The inagural edition of the Marquees, will be the Ad Club’s most prestigious award that honours brands & its custodians, who have excelled in today’s rapid evolving marketing landscape.

 Judged by a panel of eminent people from the industry – consisting of Jury Chair, Sanjiv Mehta,‎CEO and Managing Director, Hindustan Unilever Limited and other jury members which included - Harsh Goenka, Chairman - RPG Enterprises, Naveen Chopra – Ex-COO, Vodafone & Senior Advisor - TPG Capital, Ronnie Screwvala, Co-Founder – UpGrad, Dilip Cherian, Founding Partner - Perfect Relations, Agnello Dias, Chairman & Founder - Taproot India & CVL Srinivas, CEO South Asia – GroupM. 

 The Marquees endeavours to evaluate and recognize success of brands by judging them basis the media mix strategy and other important factors like the pricing, distribution and the brand – consumer connect, underlining the impact of brand management on business.

Marquees 2017 will be held at a grand ceremony on 11^th August at the Grand Hyatt Mumbai to be attended by CEO’s CMO’s, Agency heads and the stalwarts from the Advertising, Marketing & Media Industry.