By A Correspondent

The Advertising Club has announced the second edition of ‘Marquees’, the now-annual award that awards brands for excellence in marketing and brand-building. Sanjiv Mehta, CEO & MD, Hindustan Unilever Limited & Executive Vice President, Unilever South Asia, will continue to be Jury President for Marquees 2018. The awards event will be held in Mumbai on August 29.

The other jury members include CVL Srinivas, Country Manager, WPP India; Harsh Goenka, Chairman, RPG Enterprises; Agnello Dias, Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Taproot Dentsu; Naveen Chopra, Sr. Advisor, TPG Capital; Raj Nayak, COO, Viacom18 and Dilip Cherian, Founding Partner & Group Chairman, Perfect Relations.

Vikram Sakhuja

Speaking about the awards, Vikram Sakhuja, Group CEO, media and OOH, Madison Communications & President, The Advertising Club said: “The Ad Club launched the Marquees in 2017 to celebrate Excellence in Marketing. In its second year, we are happy to have the same stellar jury chaired by Unilever’s Sanjiv Mehta deciding on this year’s laurels. The Ad Club sets the gold standard for excellence in Creativity through Abbys, Effectiveness through EFFIES, Media through EMVIES and now Marketers through Marquees. Stay tuned to see the winners in each category and the Special Awards on August 29.”

Partho Dasgupta

Added Partho Dasgupta, CEO, BARC India and Chairman, Marquees 2018: “Marquees has been able to carve out a niche for itself and I am glad to be a part of this journey. After a successful debut edition last year, I am looking forward to some great entries this year. As they say, an award is as good as its Jury and in this case the Jury can’t get better than this. The Jury with its years of experience and wisdom will be able to recognise the extra-ordinary work done by marketers over the past one year,”