Huawei Wins 2016 “Best Consumer Electronics Brand” in the Chinese brand ranking category

World's third largest Smartphone manufacturer brand Huawei was announced the winner of ‘Best Consumer Electronics Brand’ during the “Best Brands 2016 – the Chinese brand ranking” by The Serviceplan Group, Europe´s largest independent communications agency, jointly with GfK, the world’s renowned market research organization, at an awards ceremony which took place in Shanghai.

The Best Brands was launched in Germany in 2004 with aim to recognize the most successful and powerful brands. The marketing awards were introduced in China the first time in 2014. It is the first brand ranking in China to take a comprehensive view of exclusively the consumer’s opinions, evaluating it based on both emotional and behavioral dimensions – creating transparency and objectivity. Other winners this year include Airbnb-Best Disruptive Brand, WeChat-Best Digital Economy Brand, and BMW-Best Emotionally Bonding Brand.

 

"On one hand, innovation leads our business. On the other hand, passion fuels our brand" - Ms. Glory Zhang, Chief Marketing Officer of Huawei Consumer Business

Speaking at the event, Ms. Glory Zhang, Chief Marketing Officer of Huawei Consumer Business, said “Our business is growing fast. In only five years, we have grown into one of the world’s top three smartphone brands. Interbrand ranked Huawei as one of the top 100 brands since 2014. This year, we are taking a step ahead, moving to number 72. Innovation is at the core of our business. We focus on meaningful innovations, which are vial important to the consumer experience. This is why we breakthrough in performance and power consumption. Huawei has worked with Leica to redefine smartphone photography. With the world’s first Leica dual-camera design, Huawei P9 has helped over 10 million people around the world to capture the wonderful moments in their life and turn them into artistic photos."

2016 Major Brand Awards

Interbrand Best Global Brands 2016: Huawei No.72

The Best Global Brands is an annual report published by Interbrand, identifying the world’s 100 most valuable brands. The ranking is based on three key components that contribute to a brand’s cumulative value: the financial performance of the branded products and services, the role the brand plays in influencing customer choice and the strength the brand has to command a premium price or secure earnings for the company. Interbrand is part of the Omnicom Group Inc. Huawei and Lenovo are the only two Chinese companies that made into Interbrand’s Best Global Brands 2016 rankings. Interbrand ranked Huawei as one of the top 100 brands since 2014. This year, Huawei ranks #72, up from #88 last year.

 

2016 BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands: Huawei No.50

BrandZ is the world's largest brand equity database containing data on brands gathered from interviews with over 150,000 people every year in up to 400 studies around the world. The BrandZ Global Top 100 was launched in 2006 by Millward Brown, which is apart of WPP, the world’s largest communications services group. Huawei ranks No. 50 in 2016, up from No. 70 in 2015.

2016 Best Brands China: Best Consumer Electronics Brand

Launched in Germany since 2004 by The Serviceplan Group, Europe´s largest independent communications agency, jointly with GfK, the world renowned market research organization, the Best Brands was designed to recognize the most successful and powerful brands. The marketing awards were introduced in China the first time in 2014. It is the first brand ranking in China to take a comprehensive view of exclusively the consumer’s opinions, evaluating it based on both emotional and behavioral dimensions – creating transparency and objectivity. Huawei was named “Best Consumer Electronics Brand”, beating other brands competing for the category including Apple and Canon. 

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IHS Markit Announces Innovation Awards Winners at ShowStoppers at IFA in Berlin

IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced winners of the IHS Markit Innovation Awards. Presented at the ShowStoppers IFA event in Berlin on Thursday, September 1, 2016, the awards showcased the most innovative technology products submitted by event exhibitors.

"Congratulations to all the ingenious technology industry leaders that took part in the IHS Markit Innovation awards at IFA," said Ian Weightman, vice president of research and operations, IHS Markit. "The only downside to having an awards program is how difficult it was to select the final winners from all the inventive and unique submissions."

Selected from 42 submissions, following are the winners of this year's IHS Markit innovation awards at IFA:

Apps, platforms and ecosystems - CURIO from SAM Labs is an out-of-the-box inventing experience for kids. Equipped with five paper-fold car bodies, a car base, and remote control, kids can build and program their own creations.

Audio technology - The Here Active Listening System from Doppler Labs consists of two wireless buds and a connected app that lets listeners control real-world sound. Here gives you a volume knob, equalizer, and preset filters. Tune In to what you want to hear, and tune out unwanted noise.

Design and style - The HP Pavilion Wave is for people who want to modernize their home or home office with a beautiful, compact desktop engineered for entertainment and productivity.

Health, fitness and wearables - ReSound Micro Mic and ReSound Multi Mic connect wirelessly to all ReSound Smart Hearing aids to enhance users' sound experience in even the most challenging listening environments. The devices provide direct sound streaming and connect with loop/FM systems to improve speech understanding.

Robotics and drones - Jimu Robot is an interactive system of robotic building blocks; build your own robot, program its movements, and share your creation with the Jimu Robot Community.

Smart home and appliances - The Pico Brew makes craft beer with the push of a button. Biodegradeable PicoPaks pre-package all the ingredients needed - making brewing and cleanup easy.

Video displays and devices - Lenovo Yoga 910 is a stylish four-in-one form factor convertible ultrabook with a 4K edgeless in-plane switching display. Weighing only three pounds, the Yoga 910 provides a crisp, vibrant display along with an Intel Core i processor, Windows 10, PCIe SSD, and more. For Indian readers the company doesn't need any introduction and is already storming the consumer electronics market with products such as Yoga series ultrabooks and smartphones like Lenovo K5 Note.

Wow factor - The Yoga Book two-in-one tablet from Lenovo provides natural note-taking with pen and paper, a halo keyboard, and Wacom technology. Weighing only 1.3 pounds, Yoga Book sports an Intel Atom processor, FHD display, and the option of Android or Windows.

The following technology industry research analysts at IHS Markit, and internationally recognized journalists, judged the awards at the IFA conference in Berlin:

    --  Tom Morrod, senior director, consumer electronics

    --  Paul Gagnon, senior manager, consumer devices

    --  Paul Gray, principal analyst, consumer devices

    --  Dinesh Kithany, principal analyst, home appliances

    --  Ian Fogg, senior director, mobile and telecommunications

    --  Ken Park, senior analyst, consumer devices

    --  Rich Trenholm, senior editor, CBS Interactive and CNET

    --  Eli Haboosh, reporter, HT Mobile Israel

    --  George Buhnici, news correspondent, ProTV Romania

The IHS Markit Innovation awards will continue at upcoming ShowStoppers events at Mobile World Congress (MWC), NAB Show, CE Week and the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

Exhibitors at upcoming ShowStoppers events can submit up to three candidate products, technologies, or services for IHS Markit Innovation awards. IHS Markit and ShowStoppers have agreed to an embargo on any announcements that should not be made public prior to the awards. For more detailed information, visit http://awards.showstoppers.com/

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It’s Raining Rewards at the CIO Crown 2016

SIFY CIO CROWN

Sify Technologies recognised many IT execs at the CIO Crown 2016 in Mumbai for their avant garde and productive use of technology. The Digital Innovation Champion award was conferred to Jagdish Lomte of Thermax Ltd, Sunil Sirohi of NIIT Ltd., Subodh Dubey of Bilt, Navneet Sharma of Intex Technologies, Kamal Karnatak of RJ Corp, Mr. Muthu Krishnan of Ramco Cements Ltd, Bibek Maity of Lux Industries and Atul Pandharpurkar, Vice President IT at Emami Cement Limited.

At the event, the emphasis was also on the fact that hospitals are consistently looking towards technology to effectively reduce costs and improve healthcare quality. CIOs from leading healthcare providers were present at the venue and were recognized for their contributions in different aspects in the industry. Sify Technologies with a significant footprint in digital transformation for healthcare organizationsrewarded them with Hospitality & Healthcare Honours.

Anand Patil of Ruby Hospital and Girish Koppar of Lilavati Hospital and Research Center, were honoured with Healthcare for Ecosystem Integration & Innovation award. Besides that, the Health Care for Mobility award was conferred to Alok Khare of Jaypee Hospital and Nandkishor Dhomne of Manipal Hospitals. Both Mr. Niranjan from Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and Sumit Singh, Head-IT Wockhardt Hospitals Ltd. Mumbai won the Healthcare for EMR & Adaption awards. Rajesh Batra of Kokilaben Hospital Mumbai and Mahesh Shinde of Hinduja Hospital were granted the Healthcare for Digital Innovation in Hospital award.

    

Girish Koppar was pleased to win the award and said the event was “an overall good experience as he was there to learn about the current trends in technology.”

The esteemed jury members for the Hospitality and Healthcare Honours were Vikas Gadre and Subhash Palkar, who also addressed the audience about the selection process for awardees.

Apart from major technological awards, there were some really interesting honours like the Selfie Contest Winner that were given to those with excellent impromptu selfies taken at the Sify Selfie Booth. These included Jayendra Sadaye of Reliance Retail, Austin Gomes and TG Dhandapani of TVS Motors. 

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Pitch Top 50 Brands Awards: An evening with corporate top shots

Yesterday I got a chance to witness a live award show, the Pitch Top 50 Brands awards is an annual property of Pitch, from the exchange4media group which rewards Top 5 brands across 10 categories. The awards acknowledge the impactful, efficient and commendable marketing practices pursued  by the brands over a year of time. The winners are shortlisted from a variety of brands from big corporate like Tata, Hero MotoCorp, Mahindra & Mahindra to relatively small startups such as Practo, OYO rooms etc.

Initially 300 brands were selected across categories in Tier 1 process which was further halved to 150 brands in Tier 2 process after that Top contenders were finalized to further reach at the final Top 50 brands for the year 2016. After you scroll down a bit and see the list of Top 50 brands you will realize how tough a job it was for the Jury which included brand heads and cheif Marketing officers from organizations like Godrej Consumer, PolicyBazaar, Micromax, Renault, Hero MotoCorp etc, to reach to a consensus over the final 5 names in each category.

The host for the evening was energetic beauty Suparnaa Chadda who kept the audience engaged through out the process. I was fully impressed when amidst the corporate English environment she started with Saraswati Vandana in Sanskrit (या कुन्देन्दु तुषार हार धवला, या वीणा वर दण्ड मण्डित करा  ). 

@simplysup is hosting #top50brands and with drum rolls we start the event. Watch it #live https://t.co/7HnL09O7Xs pic.twitter.com/AC5mAuAtf8

— e4m (Events) (@e4mevents) July 22, 2016

After that Mr. Naval Ahuja from Exchange4Media group addressed the audience and wished all finalists. The event couldn't have been such successful without the partners and they were duly thanked on the stage before anything else occupied the stage. The partners for the event were Sakshi Media Group as Gold Partner and Associate partners were 9XJalwa,blogmint, FirstPost, IndiaToday, Laqshya.

The theme of the event was "The Power of Content Marketing" and the same was discussed in a panel of speakers like Avik Chattopadhyay, co-founder Expreal (moderator for the discussion), Anand Ramakrishnan, Head -Content & Digital Marketing, HCL Technologies, Satinder Juneja, VP- Sales & Marketing, NIIT Technologies, Radhika Binani CPO, PolicyBazaar.com. Mr, Satinder Juneja, recited a Hindi poem during the discussion which perfectly defines the power of content marketing.

"राह पे उनको लगा लाये हैं बातों में , कुछ और खुल जायेंगे दो चार मुलाक़ातों में । "

The Panel Discussing - "The Power of Content Marketing"

Word 'control' is irrelevant for today's consumers, they are self aware AND you simply can't control em- Ashwin #top50brands @theblogmint

— Rahul Kasana (@RahulKasanaTech) July 22, 2016

The discussion concluded with emphasis on need to co-create the content with individual content creators as each one of us have the power to create and can be a broadcaster.

The chief guest for the evening Mr. Mahesh Giri, National Secretary BJP and MP from East Delhi arrived shortly after, he addressed the audience in Hindi and emphasized on the work done behind a product by the brand awareness team which includes content creators, PRs, marketeers etc. Mr. Giri, presented awards for five of ten categories before he left for the day.

Top 50 Awards - Chief Guest, Mr. Mahesh Giri Addressing the audience

Below are the list of award winners across the categories. Please note that there is no rank here as all the winners are judged as equal in each category.

Bottom of the Pyramid	Master Connectors	Digital Strategists	Disruptors	Affluent
AAJ TAK	BROOKE BOND RED LABEL	AMAZON INDIA	AMAGI	ARMANI
BIG BAZAAR	CADBURY	FACEBOOK	AMAZON KINDLE	AUDI
COLGATE	COLORS	HOTSTAR	OLA	JAGUAR LAND ROVER
HERO MOTOCORP	HONDA MOTORCYCLE & SCOOTER INDIA (HMSI)	OLX	PATANJALI	MERCEDES-BENZ
PARACHUTE	RADIO MIRCHI	PAYTM	POLICYBAZAAR	PORSCHE
		YOUTUBE	PRACTO

Social Contributors	Impactful Debuts	Evergreens	Globetrotters	Resurgents
HINDUSTAN UNILEVER	ABOF	AMUL	BAJAJ AUTO	BRITANNIA GOOD DAY
MAHINDRA & MAHINDRA	BALENO	FAIR AND LOVELY	GOA TOURISM	HAVELLS
MARUTI SUZUKI	HYUNDAI CRETA	RAYMOND	HERO MOTOCORP	MAGGI
MAX BUPA HEALTH INSURANCE	RENAULT KWID	SAFFOLA	MICROMAX
RELIANCE INDUSTRIES	ROYAL ENFIELD – HIMALAYAN	STATE BANK OF INDIA	TATA GROUP

After all the awards were announced we had dinner waiting outside for us with Cocktail and all, without wasting any time we had our dinner and headed back to home with a new experience and memories to keep. Thanks blogmint for providing me with this opportunity.

Why and How I was there?

As mentioned earlier, Blogmint was one of the associate partners for this event. Blogmint is a influencer marketing program connecting brands with Influencers. I am registered with them as an influencer  and have participated in few of their campaigns. This time I got a request to cover the event , the task was exciting for me and I happily obliged to do that. 

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