Percept in association with Monnet Ispat launched India’s first ‘Fight Night - Lagaan Cup
Percept and Monnet Ispat announced an exclusive JV in the form of ‘Fight Night - Lagaan Cup’ to promote and popularize ‘Boxing’ as a sport in India. The new JV & ‘Fight Night – Lagaan Cup’ was launched on Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at the ITC Grand Central, Mumbai.
‘Fight Night – Lagaan Cup’ is India’s first ever Home Grown Bilateral Indoor Boxing Bouts between Top Indian and International Boxers and will be held all over the country at periodic intervals. The Lagaan Cup will be a 90 minute event with 4 exhibition boxing matches and the Fights will follow international amateur boxing rules as approved by the Indian Boxing Federation (IBF).
The first series of ‘Fight Night - Lagaan Cup’ was hosted at the Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, Balewadi, Pune on Tuesday, 14th September, 2010. The Bilateral boxing tournament took place between India and UK for the first time in the country with Top Indian pugilists such as Vijender Singh, Jai Bhagwan, Dilbagh Singh, Manpreet and English boxers like Antonio Counihan, Ryan Aston, Frank Buglioni & Daniel Price of England fighting against each other. In the first-of-its kind concept, Indian boxers clinched the bilateral trophy winning three out of four bouts in the second – leg of the series. The Beijing Olympic bronze medallist, Vijender Singh emerged from the blows to clinch the bout as well as the Lagaan Cup for the Indian Team.
Sakaal was the print partner for the ‘Fight Night-Lagaan Cup’ while Star News was the broadcast partner, telecasting the event at 10.30 pm on 14th Sept, as a deferred live telecast. The event was also supported by Siyarams, Hero Honda, XXX Energy Drink and Monnet Ispat & Energy Limited. The online partner to this venture was Cinecurry and Radio City was the Radio partner. Planet Sports was the retail partner.
Percept Talent announced their alliance with the celebrated World Champion Wrestler Sushil Kumar on Thursday, 23 September 2010. Percept Talent signed Sushil Kumar as an Exclusive Talent for 5 years, and will strategize and manage Sushil Kumar’s brand endorsements, media activities and media rights, brand and image management, digital rights and licensing and merchandising rights as well and all promotional activities in the arena of wrestling.
India’s first gold medalist at the World Wrestling Championship signed a three-year deal with the National Egg Co-ordination Committee (NECC) as brand ambassador. The deal was arranged by Percept Talent.
Said Shailendra Singh, Joint Managing Director, Percept Limited, “We are delighted to have India’s pride and honour, Sushil Kumar aboard Percept. At Percept we have always believed in identifying, nurturing and supporting talent across various genres, and Sushil’s exceptional talent in the emerging sport of wrestling will help to pave the way to leverage many such unique talents in our country. We are confident that our exclusive association with Sushil Kumar will translate into many new opportunities and firsts in the sports talent management arena.”
Commented Rajnish Sahay, CEO, Percept Talent, “Sushil is a shining star in the world of wrestling, and we are extremely fortunate to have him on board Percept. We will adopt an aggressive, proactive, 360-degree strategy for an ace talent like Sushil, and ensure all avenues of reach and exposure are explored and capitalized upon. Percept Talent will seek out new opportunities and avenues in the rapidly changing sports, entertainment, media and digital landscape to ensure that Sushil receives unparalleled exposure across the global arena.”
Top Corporates of India came together for the 2nd successful season of the ‘Goa Super Sixes’ Cricket Tournament
Leading Corporates across India congregated at the Taj Exotica, Goa, for the 2nd season of the popular ‘Goa Super Sixes’. The tournament held from 24th-27th September 2010 saw eight leading Corporate Cricket Teams across India battling it out for the coveted ‘Goa Super Sixes 2010’ Championship title. Players comprised Business Leaders from the corporate world along with renowned personalities from Bollywood, Cricket, Music and the Fashion world.
The eight participating teams included:
Future Kings - Future Group, captained by Kishore Biyani
Pinc Panthers - Pinc Group, captained by Gaurang Gandhi
DB Conquerors - DB Realty, captained by Vinod Goenka
Provogue Pashas - Provogue, captained by Salil Chaturvedi
XXX Energisers - XXX Energy Drink, captained by Sachiin Joshi
Natkhat Pat - captained by Dilip Agarwal
Royal Marathas – Abil Group, captained by Avinash Bhosale
Bombay Bombers - Percept Limited, captained by Harindra Singh
Provogue Pashas became the winners of the Beach Cricket (Day 1) match. The semi-finals witnessed the Bombay Bombers battle out XXX Energisers, while the Royal Marathas took on the Pinc Panthers. The GSS finals witnessed a closely contested match between the Pinc Panthers and the XXX Energisers, with the Pinc Panthers bagging the coveted ‘Goa Super Sixes 2010’ Championship trophy.
“Goa Super Sixes 2010” Championship Results -
Winners of Goa Super Sixes Tournament - Pinc Panthers (led by Gaurang Gandhi)
Winners of Beach Cricket (Day 1) - Provogue Pashas
Best Fielder - Suresh Menon (Bombay Bombers)
Best Bowler - Nilesh Kulkarni (XXX Energisers)
Best Batsman - Sohail Khan (Bombay Bombers)
Max Sixes - Aditya Singh (Pinc Panthers)
Man of the Series - Aditya Singh (Pinc Panthers)
Butter Fingers - Kalpesh Mehta (Pinc Panthers)
Legend Player - Mohinder Amarnath (Pinc Panthers)
Most Stylish - Avinash Bhosale (Royal Marathas)
The ‘Goa Super Sixes’ tournament offered a unique, action-packed, fun-filled version of the game of cricket that combined the participants’ passion for the sport amidst the serene yet festive ambience of Goa. This exclusive corporate cricket property was ideated, conceptualized and executed by PDM India. SportzConsult was the official “Event Partner” and ‘Chivas’ was the official “Spirits Partner” for this Tournament.
The 2nd edition of Percept Brain Mania, a quiz contest, continued for a span of 10 days at the P2 Training Room. The preliminary round kick-started on the September 08, 2010 wherein 15 teams across the group participated in the brain fight.
The top 2 scorers from each batch qualified for the ‘Grand Finale’ which took place on September 17, 2010. There were six finalists in the finals that were all ready to display their brain power. Shazaad Arjani & Harshad Salvi from Percept/H emerged as winners and Percept Profile team comprised of Tanya Desousa, Aastha Bhandari & Vaibhav Singh stood runner up!
Percept congratulates winners for their winning feat!
AMO celebrated their 10th Anniversary on 9th September, 2010 with fun, food and laughter
AMO Communications celebrated their 10th Anniversary with much fun, pomp and élan.
The celebrations began with a prayer following which the entire team bonded over a delectable lunch. Post lunch, the entire group geared up for an interesting and unique ‘gamestorming’ workshop which was conducted by Elvis Dias, MD, AMO Communications. This interactive session offered a creative platform to elicit everybody’s innermost capabilities through an array of fun filled activities. Four teams comprising of personnel across diverse work disciplines were formed. The session kick-started with a game called ' Current Culture of AMO'. The whole idea was to depict the present feel at AMO through a storyboard using magazine images. The next game ideated on the 'Ideal Culture of AMO'. This was followed by a brain drill titled ‘The Inception Model'. Based on a hexagon shaped model the AMO team had to go about using the concept of 'Enter, Solve, Exit'. This game encouraged lateral thinking and the results were simply amazing! The last game entitled ‘Perspective Drawing’ allowed teams to explore their keen observation skills, as also flaunt their creative skills.
The final surprise of the day was the announcement of a new room called the 'Thinking Room', later rechristened as the “Labour Room”, which has been designed especially for the creative guys. The day wound up with a sneak peak at the new animated viral video on 'AMO', and some delicious snacks.
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