New Delhi Railway Station’s some platforms to be rebranded as ‘Bail Kolhu’ and ‘Nourish’

New Delhi Railway Station’s some platforms will likely be branded as ‘Bail Kolhu’ and ‘Nourish’, because the Railways has granted naming rights to Uttar Pradesh-based fast-moving client items (FMCG) firm BL Agro. Naming rights have been granted for platforms 14, 15 and 16 of the New Delhi Railway Station.

The corporate, in a media launch, stated that New Delhi Railway Station’s platforms 14 and 15 will likely be branded as ‘Nourish Platform 14 and 15’ and Platform 16, the one on the Ajmeri Gate facet of the station, will likely be branded as ‘Bail Kolhu Platform No 16.

Ghanshyam Khandelwal, Chairman, BL Agro, stated, “It’s an considerable initiative taken by Indian Railways, and I congratulate the ministry for such progressive imaginative and prescient. It certainly is a landmark second for us and we’re ecstatic to be spearheading it for New Delhi Railway Station.”

Apparently, that is the primary time that such a tie-up with personal gamers has been made doable, and the honour has been awarded to reputed companies or authorities organisations, it added. The tenure of the branding rights with BL Agro is for one yr initially, beginning this October.

Ashish Khandelwal, Managing Director, BL Agro, stated, “We selected Platforms 14, 15, and 16 as a result of the vast majority of the trains that depart from there are for Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, the 2 states the place the majority of our audience resides. It’s a gathering of minds.”

The Railways stated that the contract has been awarded for naming rights of NDLS platforms beneath the New, Revolutionary Non-Fare Income Concepts Scheme to Hybrid Media. Hybrid Media has additional tied up with BL Agro, officers stated.

BL Agro, with this deal, acquired naming rights within the platform space, permitting panels, billboards, and vinyl wrapping to sport Bail Kolhu’s superstar endorsers Manoj Bajpayee, Pankaj Tripathi, and Nawazuddin Siddiqui. However, Nourish’s model ambassador is Shilpa Shetty.

“On common, every platform handles 13 to 23 trains per day, and the variety of passengers your entire station will get is over 2 lakhs. Come the festive seasons, the footfall reaches 6 lakhs each day. It opens for us an uncommon window to succeed in deeper into our goal market in an unexplored method,” Khandelwal added.

Leads Model Join, a inventive and promoting company, has conceptualised, created and executed the naming rights of all three platforms in its entirety for BL Agro. This encompasses beautifying the platforms, creating pink cubicles for ladies, alongside creating expertise zone for the manufacturers, the assertion stated, including that it’s going to additionally maintain the maintenance and upkeep of the branded infrastructure.

Primarily based in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, BL Agro Industries Ltd has one of many largest distribution networks amongst all branded edible oil and meals product gamers in India, with over 58,000 retailers.