DDB Mudra West demonstrates the strength of Sainik Plywood in new campaign for CenturyPly

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CenturyPly.jpgCenturyPly, the leading brand of plywood, laminates and veneers in India has introduced a new plywood brand – Sainik, for the value segment. The campaign, titled ‘Hamesha Taiyaar’, has been conceptualized by DDB Mudra West India.

Plywood is a commoditized but complex category. Consumer involvement is very low, there are multiple products at different price points based on various technical parameters. A consumer does not understand those technicalities but knows his budget. The role of the brand in this category is limited to passive reassurance.

CenturyPly believes that the category has evolved enough to accommodate clearly defined brands at two price segments – Premium & Value. While CenturyPly continues to be the premium offering, Sainik is designed to serve the value segment.

CentryPlyTV.jpgWith an effort to trigger a larger brand appeal, the DDB Mudra West positioned Sainik as ‘Hamesha Taiyyar’ to display the toughness of the ply and its readiness for any eventuality or hardship that comes its way, much like a soldier.

The thought behind the brand has been brilliantly translated into a clutter breaking TVC and OOH implementations. The TVC intends to create a larger-than-life image of the brand in the consumers’ mind space. The storyline follows a platoon of soldiers in a forest, where they are seen engaged in a fierce combat across land and water, under the most trying circumstances. The testing journey of the soldiers is matched by the journey of the plywood box, which eventually turns out to be carrying letters from the homes of these soldiers. The unscathed surface of the box personifies the tested, yet undaunted spirit of the soldiers. In spite of the forces of nature and the troubles caused due to the rough terrain and handling, it stands strong with the strength that only a true soldier embodies.

CentryPly 2.jpg“This is another first attempt from Century Ply, where we are trying to create a sub brand in our journey for creating a commodity into a consumer brand. Sainik Plywood comes lower in the hierarchy of our products but is one of the most exciting products for our consumers. What we want to bring out from this campaign is built on a spirit of the Sainik in terms of integrity, commitment, strength etc. and this is what Century Plywood also stands for. Another offering from CenturyPly in terms of creating good advertisement and delivering good product to the market space”, says Amit Gope, Group Marketing Head – Century Plyboards.

Quoting on the campaign, Rahul Mathew, Creative Head, DDB Mudra West, said, “The name Sainik in itself holds so many virtues – strong, steadfast, resilient. This summed up what we wanted to say about our plywood as well. From here the story practically wrote itself, which was then beautifully captured by Anupam.”

Credits –

Chairman and Chief Creative Officer: Sonal Dabral

President DDB Mudra West: Rajiv Sabnis

Creatives: Rahul Mathew, Sharat Kuttikat, Jayesh Vaghela, Ravi Ananthan, Broti Roychowdhury, Mehul Zolapura, Tanmay Patel

Account Management: Ronak Shah, Vikrant Jain, Revathy Sukumaran, Arnab Das Gupta

Account Planning: Amit Kekre, Shekhar Panday, Vinayak Dubey

Films Dept: Vishal Sane

Production House: Crazy Few Films

Director: Anupam Mishra

Producers: Urfi Kazmi, Viraj Gawas

DOP: Tudor Mircea

Music Director: Subhajit Mukherjee