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  • Xiaomi: The Popular Chinese Electronics Company

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    ‘Quality products at honest pricing’ is almost everyone’s need. Xiaomi has a separate fan base for its high-grade products built with cutting-edge technology at reasonable prices. Xiaomi is a Chinese company that has its major ground in electronics. The company has a presence in over 100 countries and regions and has been hailed as the world’s most-valued tech startup already in 2014. Xiaomi currently ranks in the 70th position on the Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands in 2021 by Kantar BrandZ.

    Xiaomi Mobiles have also gained much popularity in India, which has only seen growth year on year. The company tops the list of the best-selling phones in India. Xiaomi India even made it to the ‘GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS’ by building the largest light mosaic (logo) in the world. It was set by placing 9,690 bulbs and this momentous work is found on the terrace of Xiaomi’s head office in Bengaluru. Here are some more interesting facts and figures about Xiaomi.

    This article is all about the journey and functioning of Xiaomi. Know more about Xiaomi and its historyits Founders and Team, origin, Startup Story, background, Business Model, revenue model, IPO, Funding and Investors, Revenue Model, Competitors, and more.

    Xiaomi – Company Highlights

    Startup Name Xiaomi
    Headquarters Beijing, China
    Sector Consumer Electronics
    Founders Lei Jun
    Founded April 2010
    Parent Organization Xiaomi.Inc
    Website Mi.com

    About Xiaomi
    Xiaomi – Founders/Owners
    Xiaomi – History
    Xiaomi – Name, Tagline & Logo
    Xiaomi – Funding & Investors
    Xiaomi – Competitors
    Xiaomi – Revenue Model
    Xiaomi – Growth & Revenue
    Xiaomi – Future Plans

    About Xiaomi

    Xiaomi is an electronics company based in Beijing, China. It was founded by Lei Jun in April 2010, and in 2014, Xiaomi was the largest smartphone company in China. Today, Xiaomi is one of the top five smartphone vendors in the world. The smartphone commodities of Xiaomi include different series such as Mi Series, Mi Note Series, Mi Max Series, Mi Mix Series, Mi NoteBook Series, Redmi Series (Redmi 9, Redmi 8, Redmi 9i, Redmi 9a), Blackshark, and Pocophone. Xiaomi has around 291.6 million active users for its MIUI updates. Besides, the company also offers laptops, mobile apps, mobile accessories, wearables, home appliances, and smart-home devices.

    In 2019, Xiaomi even started selling accessories such as caps, bags, glasses, backpacks, and also lunchboxes, pillows, cups, filters, umbrellas, and screwdrivers.

    In 2018, Xiaomi launched Mi Credit in India for easy accessibility of personal loans. The Xiaomi company also offers various value-added-internet services like ‘Mi Music’, ‘Mi Video’, and ‘Mi Game’.


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    Xiaomi – Founders/Owners

    Lei Jun

    Lei Jun - Founder, CEO, and President of Xiaomi
    Lei Jun – Founder, CEO, and President of Xiaomi

    Lei Jun is the founder, CEO, and President of Xiaomi. The other co-founders are Lin Bin, Dr. Zhou Guangping, Liu De, Li Wanqiang, Wong Kong-Kat, Hong Feng, and Chuan Wang.

    Lei Jun is a graduate in computer science from Wuhan University. In 1992, Lei Jun joined Kingsoft, a Chinese software company as an engineer. In 1998, Lei Jun became the CEO of Kingsoft. In December 2007, he resigned from Kingsoft for health-related issues. While he was still working with Kingsoft, Lei Jun founded an online bookstore named Joyo.com. Joyo.com was acquired by Amazon.com in 2004.

    After resigning from Kingsoft, Lei Jun became an angel investor and invested in over 20 companies. He still invests in various companies through Shunwei Capital. In 2008, he joined UC Web as Chairman, and in 2010 Lei Jun founded Xiaomi.

    Xiaomi co-founder & Vice Chairman, Lin Bin is a graduate in radio electronics and holds a rich experience of working with companies like ADP, Microsoft, and Google. Lin Bin is also a member of the board of advisors of Tufts University School of Engineering located in Boston (USA).

    Dr. Zhou Guangping, who has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, worked with Motorola and held various pivotal positions in the company before joining Xiaomi. Dr. Zhou led the hardware and BSP teams at Xiaomi. Currently, Dr. Zhou Guangping works with Motorola as Director of Engineering.

    Liu De is an M.S. and an expert in Industrial design. He is the co-founder and Senior Vice President of the company. He established the Industrial Design Department at the University of Science and Technology Beijing. In 2003, Liu De founded ‘New Edge’, an Industrial Design Company. Mr. Liu currently looks after the industrial design and Ecosystem Development teams at Xiaomi.

    Li Wanqiang is known as one of the earliest UI and HCI experts in China. He is a former Senior VP/Chief Brand Officer at Xiaomi Corp. After completing his graduation in Industrial Engineering in 2000, Mr. Wanqiang joined Kingsoft, where he led many important and well-known software projects. In 2010 Wanqiang joined Xiaomi as a co-founder.

    Wong Kong-Kat graduated in computer science in 1997 and joined Microsoft, where he worked till 2010. Mr. Wong is now in charge of the Mi wifi and Mi Cloud teams.

    Hong Feng holds a post-graduate degree in computer science. He started his career with Siebel System as a Lead Software Engineer. In 2006, Mr. Hong joined Google as a Senior Software Engineer. Later he also looked after the development of the various localized products of Google (in China) like Google Music and Google Pinyin Input as a Senior Product Manager at Google China. Mr. Hong now looks after the MIUI division at Xiaomi.

    Xiaomi co-founder Chuan Wang is a seasoned entrepreneur. In 1997, Mr. Wang founded Thunderstone Technology, which grew to be the largest VOD (Video on Demand) system provider in China. In 2007 Chuan Wang founded a digital book company named Beijing Duokan Technology of which he is currently the CEO. In 2012, Mr. Wang joined Xiaomi as the co-founder and Vice President. Presently he manages the Mi TV and Mi Box teams at Xiaomi.


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    Xiaomi – History

    Lei Jun founded Xiaomi in 2010, as a software company and created MIUI ROM based on Google’s Android. The idea behind developing MIUI was to offer more functionalities and a better UI than Android. MIUI indeed got the popularity it deserved. As per reports in March 2020, the MAU ( Monthly Active Users) of MIUI increased to 330.7 million worldwide.

    In 2011 Xiaomi entered the hardware segment by launching the Mi One phone. The Xiaomi team’s focus has been on creating quality hardware devices and selling them at comparatively lower costs than those available in the market while they intended to make revenue through their services and content. The company today not only sells mobile phones but more mobile apps, wearables, home appliances, and smart home devices.

    The meaning of the word ‘Xiaomi’ is ‘Millet’ and few reports show that it also means ‘Rice’. Lei Jun relates the word ‘Xiao’ to the Buddhist concept that, a single grain of rice is as great as a mountain’, indicating the company’s endurance. “Only for fans” was its tagline before.

    Xiaomi Logo
    Xiaomi Logo

    The logo of the company shows the word ‘MI’. It is the abbreviation for “Mobile Internet”, but Xiaomi has mentioned that it can also be read as “Mission Impossible”, representing all the challenges the company has faced so far.

    Xiaomi – Funding & Investors

    Xiaomi has raised funding worth approx. $7.4 Billion over 15 different funding rounds. Xiaomi went public in 2018.

    Date Stage Amount Investors
    December 2, 2020 Post-IPO Debt $855M
    December 2, 2020 Post-IPO Equity $3.1B
    April 2018 Secondary Market $800K Qualcomm Ventures
    July 28, 2017 Debt Financing $1B Morgan Stanely, Deutsche bank, NGP Capital
    March 1, 2016 Secondary Market
    April 27, 2015 Funding Round Ratan Tata,DST Global,HOPU Fund,GIC,All-Stars Investment,YunFeng Capital
    December 22, 2014 Series E $1.1B
    October 29, 2014 Debt Financing $1B Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase
    August 22, 2013 Series D DST Global
    June 2012 Series C Morningside Venture Capital
    June 2012 Series C $216M Morningside Group
    December 2011 Series B $90M IDG Capital, Shunwei Capital, Morningside Venture Capital
    December 2010 Series A $41 Million

    Xiaomi – Competitors

    Top competitors of Xiaomi include Samsung Electronics, Apple, Huawei, Samsung, OnePlus, and Oppo. Xiaomi sustains its paramount position with constant updates and optimization along with marketing at reasonable prices. Apple and Samsung provide good quality phones but have high prices. Whereas Xiaomi provides a number of features at reasonable prices.

    Redmi smartphones are priced at as low as 6000 rupees on Amazon, and Xiaomi continues to have the highest market share for smartphone shipments in India. One of Xiaomi’s strongest competitors is Realme. Realme is a daughter brand of Oppo also coming up with equally great phones like Xiaomi. And thus there is strong competition between Realme and Xiaomi. Motorola and Samsung are increasing the competition. Samsung released the M series where they did focus on value for money without compromising necessary specs.


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    Xiaomi – Revenue Model

    Xiaomi’s primary source of revenue is from smartphones, the Internet of Things (IoT) and lifestyle products, internet services, and other miscellaneous products and services that the company offers.

    A major portion of Xiaomi’s revenue comes from the sale of smartphones. In 2018, the company is reported to have sold 119 million smartphones. Around 25% of Xiaomi’s revenue comes from IoT and Lifestyle products. The company deals in a wide variety of IoT-enabled products like smart TVs, electric scooters, vacuum cleaners, cameras, rearview mirrors, etc. As regards the internet-based services provided by the company, pre-loaded apps and services form a good part of Xiaomi’s revenue. Besides the company offers monthly subscriptions to its TV shows, games, and movies, and also earns by providing advertisement services.

    Xiaomi – Growth & Revenue

    In the third quarter of 2024, Xiaomi achieved record revenue and strong earnings growth. Total revenue for the quarter reached RMB92.5 billion, marking a 30.5% year-over-year increase. Within segments, the smartphone × AIoT segment generated RMB82 billion in revenue during the same period. Xiaomi has grown in sales and product ranges.

    Xiaomi's Annual Revenue from 2015 to 2023
    Xiaomi’s Annual Revenue from 2015 to 2023

    However, due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the smartphone company saw a decline in the Q1 of 2020. However, Xiaomi has also been declared as the only brand among the top five smartphone sellers, to achieve comparatively sound sales in the first quarter of 2020. It saw a 1.4% YoY from 2019, during the first quarter of 2020.

    In 2019, Xiaomi’s total revenue was approximately RMB 205.84 Billion, and gross profit was nearly RMB 28.55 Billion. In the Q4 of 2019, the company’s total revenue grew by 27.1% to RMB 56.5 Billion with an attuned net profit of RMB 2.3 Billion and a 26.5% YoY increase.

    “Despite headwinds from the Sino-US trade war and global economic downturn, Xiaomi stood out in 2019 with a commendable set of results as our revenue exceeded RMB 200 billion for the first time. We also celebrated several key milestones, ranging from the successful launch of our dual-brand strategy as Xiaomi and Redmi are spun-off and independently operated, the affirmation of ‘5G+AIoT’ as our strategic roadmap, to our inaugural entries into the prestigious ranks of the Fortune Global 500 and BrandZ’s Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands” says, Mr. Lei Jun, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Xiaomi.

    According to reports dated September 1, 2021, Xiaomi has revealed that it would not be launching any more of its products with the Mi brand. The Chinese tech giant has decided to withdraw the “MI” name from all their future products.


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    Xiaomi – Future Plans

    Xiaomi has ambitious future plans:

    • Market Expansion: Xiaomi aims to open 2 more stores in Singapore by 2025, reaching 10 stores, and expand to 219 sales stores and 143 service centers by 2024.
    • R&D Investment: The company plans to invest 30 billion yuan (US$4.1 billion) in 2025, focusing on AI, operating systems, and chips.
    • Electric Vehicles (EVs): Xiaomi is developing smart EVs with advanced features, though it currently faces net losses despite a strong profit margin.
    • Carbon Neutrality: Xiaomi targets carbon neutrality by 2040 and will transport 2.32 million products via sea and rail in 2022 to cut emissions.
    • Smart Device Ecosystem: Xiaomi is dedicated to creating a connected world of smart devices.

    Xiaomi’s vision is to make quality technology accessible to everyone, i.e., “Innovation for everyone”. The company makes this possible with its high-quality products and remarkable services.


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    According to reports, Xiaomi has 7 factories in India, four of which are in Andhra Pradesh, two in Tamil Nadu, and one in Noida. As claimed by the company about 99% of Xiaomi phones are produced in India. The company has also started a pilot project whereby the company is exporting Xiaomi phones made in India to Bangladesh and Nepal. Besides smartphones, the company claims that almost 100% of smartphone chargers, USB cables, and batteries are made in India. Xiaomi also has a smart TV manufacturing plant in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh.

    FAQs

    Xiaomi company belongs to which country?

    Xiaomi is a company based in China.

    What is Xiaomi?

    Xiaomi is a Chinese multinational company that designs and manufactures smartphones, smart home devices, laptops, and consumer electronics. It was founded in 2010 by Lei Jun and is known for offering high-quality products at affordable prices. Xiaomi also develops software, including its MIUI operating system based on Android.

    What is Xiaomi HyperOS?

    Xiaomi HyperOS is Xiaomi’s new operating system that replaces MIUI. It offers faster performance, AI features, and better connectivity across devices like phones, tablets, and smart home products.

    Which is Xiaomi parent company?

    Xiaomi Corporation is its own parent company. It was founded by Lei Jun in 2010.

  • List of Brands Endorsed By Katrina Kaif

    Brand ambassador are the crucial part of brand marketing, as they are responsible in the positioning of the brand image, gaining new customers and retaining the existing ones. One of the other common reasons for a company to get a brand ambassador is to reach the target audience of the company and create awareness about the brand.

    One of the top celebrity brand endorser in India is Katrina Kaif. Katrina Kaif is a British actress that predominantly works in the Hindi Film Industry. Katrina is also one of the highest paid actress and among the top ten celebrity endorsers in the country.

    Katrina has been a part of many box office hits and won awards like the Filmfare, despite the criticism for her acting and repetitive roles. The actress is known for her work in movies such as Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya?, Namastey London, Raajneeti, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, Bang Bang!, Tiger Zinda Hai, Zero, etc.

    Katrina is also the founder of Kay Beauty which is an Indian Cosmetic Brand, sold on the Nykaa’s website and its retail stores. The actress has contributed to her mother’s charity and participated in many stage shows. Katrina is known to charge over Rs 7 to 9 crore per endorsement deal. The net worth of the actress is estimated to be $30 million in 2021.

    Here is a list of popular brands endorsed by Katrina Kaif. Some of the most prominent brands endorsed by Katrina Kaif are Kay beauty, Nykaa, Lenskart, Kalyan Jewelers, Reebok, and more.

    Brands Endorsed by Katrina Kaif

    1. Kay Beauty
    2. Nykaa
    3. Xiaomi India
    4. Kalyan Jewelers
    5. Lenskart
    6. Titan Watches
    7. Tropicana Slice
    8. Reebok
    9. Berger Paints
    10. Metro Shoes
    11. Lux
    12. Educate Girls
    13. FBB
    14. Splash

    Kay Beauty

    Katrina Kaif Endorsed brand – Kay Beauty

    Kay Beauty is a popular Cosmetic Brand in the country that was founded by the Bollywood star Katrina Kaif. The beauty line is available on the Nykaa’s website and its retail stores. The company currently has two types of store which are Nykaa On trend and Nykaa Luxe. Kay beauty is divided three sections which are Kolor, Kover, Kare which are products dedicated to different parts of the face.

    The brand has 48 different pieces makeup priced at an affordable range of Rs. 249 to Rs. 799. Kay Beauty is India first celebrity brand. Katrina has endorsed her own brand in many unique and creative multimedia ad commercials. Commenting on her vision for the brand, the actress said that Kay beauty is not just a brand endorsement, but her brand that truly represents who she is.

    She also plays an active role in marketing the company and has come up with trending hashtags like #MakeupThatKares and #ItsKayToBeYou, through which the brand talks about the gap that the brand fulfils by providing a makeup collection that have care ingredients to nourish the skin.

    Nykaa

    Katrina Kaif Endorsed brand – Nykaa

    Nykaa is one of the top Indian eCommerce site that specializes in cosmetics and skincare/beauty products. The company was founded in 2012 by Falguni Nayar and has its headquarters in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Nykaa is at present available in 70 stores in India and offers products from luxury brands such as Tom Ford, Jo Malone London, Dior and Givenchy among others.

    Nykaa’s website so far has more than 5 million monthly active users and handles more than 1.5 million order per month. The company has huge portfolio of over 1,500 brands with more than 1.3 lakh products available on all its platform like website and app. Katrina Kaif not only sells her makeup through the e-commerce site but also has funded the company with an undisclosed amount.

    The actress has also endorsed the company in events and commercials. In an interview she said that, Nykaa has opened new avenues for women to explore and celebrate their own unique idea of beauty. Falguni Nayar the CEO of Nykaa, also commented that she admires the actress’s work ethic and understanding of beauty products.


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    Xiaomi India

    Katrina Kaif Endorsed brand – Xiaomi

    Xiaomi is one of the top Chinese multinational electronics company that was founded in 2010. The company has its headquartered in Beijing. The company is known for its products such as smartphones, mobile apps, laptops home appliances, bags, shoes, consumer electronics among others.

    In 2018, Xiaomi became the world fourth largest smartphone manufacturer, and also the the leading brand in the Chinese and Indian market. The company has more than 291.6 million monthly users and 18,170 employees around the world, in 2019. Xiaomi announced that Katrina Kaif will endorse the company smartphones like Redmi Y series in 2017.

    Manu Jain, the managing director of Xiaomi India said that,We are excited to have the actress as our product endorser for the Redmi Y series. Katrina is one of those individuals who works extremely hard to complement each and every situation she is a part of. It’s extremely synonymous with what Redmi Y series stands for. ”

    Kalyan Jewelers

    Katrina Kaif Endorsed brand – Kalyan Jewellers

    Kalyan Jewellers is a popular Indian jeweler showroom chain that is present in overall metro cities of India and even in West Asia. The company has over 8000 employees and over the years has launched various product lines like Muhurat, Mudhra, Rang, Anokhi, Ziah, Rang, etc.  Kalyan Jewelers currently hold a strong presence especially in South India, with 35 stores across four southern states.

    Currently, the company has over 137 retail stores across India and Middle East, with 30 showrooms spread across UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and Oman, as of 2020. Kalyan jewelers made Katrina its global brand ambassador in 2018, since then the actress has been featured in many ad commercials. Katrina Kaif will also be the company’s customer engagement events across its showrooms in India and West Asia.

    Ramesh Kalyanaraman, the executive director of Kalyan Jeweller in an interview said that, “The actress personifies brand Kalyan’s attributes of style and elegance. Katrina epitomizes the quintessential woman of today who are confident, progressive and with the courage of her conviction. This association will help our company to explore new avenues to engage with our customers as we script our future growth strategy in India and globally.’’


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    Lenskart

    Lenskart – Brand endorsed by Katrina Kai

    Lenskart is a well-known Indian optical prescription eyewear retail chain that has its headquarters in New Delhi. Lenskart was founded by Peyush Bansal, Amit Chaudhary and Sumeet Kapahi in 2010. The company  has over 900 showrooms in 80 cities in India as of 2022. Lenskart valuation stands at $5 billion in 2022.

    Lenskart has a manufacturing facility in India that produces more than 300,000 glasses every month and another facility in Zhengzhou, China that manufactures the other 50%. Katrina Kaif became the company’s first brand ambassador and has appeared in many of its commercials, helping the company raise Rs 600 crore in funding since 2010.

    Commenting on the association, Peyush Bansal the co-founder of Lenskart said that, Katrina fits the brand like no other celebrity, has the right fan following and so has been signed for two years. He also added that, the company was looking for someone who naturally fit the Lenskart brand proposition of addictive playfulness.

    Katrina Kaif Endorsed brand – Lenskart

    Titan Watches

    Katrina Kaif Endorsed brand – Titan Raga

    Titan Company Limited is an Indian fashion house that manufactures products such as watches, jewelry and eyewear. The company started as a joint venture between Tata group and TIDCO and has its headquarters in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

    The company initially started in 1994 as Titan Watches Limited and has currently become the fifth largest watch manufacturer in the world. Titan watch comprises of brands like Fastracks, Sonata, Raga, Octane and Xylus. Titan watches accounted for ₹2,126 crore in revenue which was 10% of the total of the company, in 2018.

    The company signed Katrina Kaif as the brand ambassador for Titan Raga. Mr Ajoy Chawla, the Vice-President of Titan commented on the association by saying, Katrina symbolizes the changing face of the successful and contemporary Indian woman that the brand stands for.


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    Tropicana Slice

    Katrina Kaif Endorsed brand – Slice

    Tropicana Slice is line of fruit flavored soft drinks that initially manufactured by PepsiCo in 1984. The brand was discontinued in the late 2000s until it was acquired by the New Slice Ventures LLC. Slice was re-introduced in India in 2008 by PepsiCo in form of a mango flavored fruit drink. The brand is now advertised as Tropicana Slice and is extremely popular in India.

    This brands competes with other mango flavored drink like Maaza that belongs to Coca-Cola and Frooti that is owned by Parle Agro Private Limited. Tropicana Slice made Katrina its brand ambassador and the actress has been the face of the brand by appearing in many ad commercials endorsing the brands.

    The most recent campaign ‘Sabse Thick Sabse Tasty’, features the actress posing the ultimate taste challenge to a fan. The blind taste challenge in the ad showcases the actress urging the fan to make a choice between Slice and another mango-flavored drink.

    Commenting on the new campaign Anuj Goyal, associate director, Tropicana and Slice, PepsiCo India said, “The Company wanted to encourage consumers to take the new Sabse Thick Sabse Tasty blind taste challenge to bolster Slice’s position as the tastiest and thickest mango drink in India. We are also excited to reach out to our consumers through this campaign that features Katrina Kaif.”

    Reebok

    Katrina Kaif Endorsed brand – Reebok

    Reebok is globally known British footwear and clothing company that has headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts. The company manufactures products such as fitness, running and CrossFit sportwear which include clothing and footwear. Reebok is the official footwear and apparel sponsor for CrossFit and Spartan and is a subsidiary of Adidas.

    The company was founded by J.W Foster & Sons in 1895 in Bolton Lancashire, England. Katrina became Reebok’s brand ambassador in 2019, the actress has done many exciting collaboration with the company also featured in some multimedia campaign and commercials.

    Sunil Gupta, the brand director of Reebok India commented on the association with the actress and said that, “Katrina being a fitness enthusiast, is a perfect fit for Reebok. The company is confident that together we will continue to inspire the youth and be thoughtful leaders in the fitness industry.”


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    Berger Paints

    Katrina Kaif Endorsed brand – Berger Paints

    Berger paints is a second largest Indian multinational paint company that has its headquarters in Kolkata, West Bengal. The company has over 16 manufacturing facilities in India, two in Nepal and one each in Russia and Poland. The company has its presence in countries like India, Russia, Poland, Nepal and Bangladesh.

    Berger paints has more than 3,600 employees and a distribution network of more than 25,000 dealers across the country. Katrina Kaif is a face of the brand and has been a new campaign for their Silk Glamor Luxury Emulsion paint. The commercial features Katrina Kaif telling the story of her own house and how she nurtures the feeling of decorating her home to make it picture perfect.

    Commenting on the association, Sudhir Nair the general manager of Berger Paints India Limited, says “The new ad campaign brings the idea of giving a stylish makeover to the walls of our home with new reflective technology, Silk Glamor. The idea of signing Katrina Kaif was to explain the beauty of the product to the customers and to accentuate the Silk Glamor brand to higher levels.”

    Metro Shoes

    Katrina Kaif Endorsed brand – Metro Shoes

    Metro wear is a popular multi brand footwear retail chain in the country. The company has a nationwide network of exclusive Metro showrooms at over 206 prime locations across 100 plus cities in India. The company has its headquarters in Mumbai, Maharashtra and has its own e-commerce store offering a wide range of footwear products at an affordable range.

    Metro shoes signed Katrina Kaif and Siddharth Malhotra as its brand ambassadors in 2017. Both the actors have been chosen to endorse Metro Shoes’ stylish footwear range as the brand looks to strengthen its position as the country’s fashion footwear.

    Commenting on the association, Farah Malik, CEO said that, “We are delighted to have Katrina Kaif and Siddharth Malhotra representing Metro Shoes. Both the actors are the perfect embodiment of what the brand stands for which is a distinctive style with a confident and a sparkling personality.”

    Lux

    Katrina Kaif Endorsed brand - Lux
    Katrina Kaif Endorsed brand – Lux

    Lux is a trusted brand that is owned by Unilever. The company has its headquarters based in Singapore and offers a huge variety of products ranging from beauty soaps, shower gels, bath additives, hair shampoos to conditioners. Lux originally started out in 1899 with “Sunlight Flakes” which was a laundry soap.

    Since then the lux products are marketed in countries like Brazil, Pakistan, China, Bangladesh, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Thailand, and Vietnam. The brand currently manufactures its products at 71 facilities and also has over 2000 suppliers.

    Katrina became Lux’s brand ambassador in 2010, and was also featured in a commercial for the ‘Lux Purple Lotus & Cream’ soap that is said to be a soap infused with anti-ageing properties. In an interview, Nandita Chalam, the vice-president and senior creative director of JWT said that, “Lux has always used stars that are on top and even the stars realise that. Kaif was the obvious choice because she’s currently very popular and is endorsing the brand for the first time.”

    Katrina Kaif Endorsed brand – Lux

    Educate Girls

    Katrina Kaif Endorsed brand – Educate Girls

    Educate Girls is an international award-winning non-profit organization that was founded by Safeena Husain. The organization is committed towards government’s vision to improve access to primary education for young girls, by involving the local government and communities.

    Educate girls currently has a reach to more than 21,000 schools in over 12,000 villages spread across 15 districts of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. So far the organization has enrolled over 200,000 out-of school girls since inception and helped them improve their learning outcomes.

    Katrina was singed as the brand ambassador for educate girls in 2018, and since then helped the organization by raising her voice for the humanitarian cause. Commenting on the association, Katrina added that, “For over a decade now, Educate Girls has been partnering with the Government in bringing out-of-school girls back to school. I am committed to support Educate Girls in the endeavor to build an India where girls have equal opportunities to access quality education.”

    FBB

    Katrina Kaif Endorsed brand – FBB

    FBB was founded in 2008, is a clothing brand that belongs to Big Bazaar which is the oldest and largest retail hypermarket chains of India. The company has over 250 plus stores in over 120 cities and towns across the country with FBB stores available in every Big Bazaar store. Fbb has been redefining affordable fashion and has strong presence across all metropolitan cities.

    Katrina became the brand ambassador for FBB in 2018, and has so far appeared in some ad commercials along with other Bollywood actors like Diljeet Dosanjh and Varun Dhawan. In 2018, Katrina was featured in a multimedia campaign called, “Blend it like Kat”.

    Splash

    Katrina Kaif Endorsed brand – Splash

    Splash was founded in 1993 and currently has its headquarters in Dubai, UAE. Splash’s parent company is the Landmark Group and has over 150 stores and 50 brand stores across 16 countries in India, Middle Eastern countries, Pakistan, Tanzania and Libya.

    The sister group of Splash are well known Lifestyle Stores and Home Centre Stores. Both Katrina Kaif and Salman Khan were signed as brand ambassador in 2017 during the release of the movie Tiger Zinda Hai.

    Speaking on her association Katrina said, “Splash to me embodies effortless style and great fashion, which is what I associate with personally. I am very happy to represent the brand as an ambassador for the Middle East, a region that has given me and my movies so much love and support.”

    Conclusion

    Katrina over the years have became one of the most effective influencers in India. The actress is known to be portrayed as an independent, intelligent, or industrious women throughout the media.

    According to Forbes, Katrina Kaif was ranked 23rd in the list of 100 highest-paid celebrities in 2019. She was also ranked No 1 in the Annual Brand Trust Report of 2015. Despite that, the actress has a huge fan following making it another reason for her to be demand in the advertising world for the past decade.

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Who is Katrina Kaif?

    Katrina Kaif is a British actress that predominantly works in the Hindi Film Industry.

    What are the brands endorsed by Katrina Kaif?

    Some of the top brands endorsed by Katrina Kaif are:

    • Kay Beauty
    • Nykaa
    • Xiaomi India
    • Kalyan Jewelers
    • Lenskart
    • Titan Watches
    • Tropicana Slice
    • Reebok
    • Berger Paints
    • Metro Shoes
    • Lux
    • Educate Girls
    • FBB
    • Splash

    How much does Katrina Kaif charge for brand endorsement?

    Katrina Kaif is known to charge over Rs 7 to 9 crore per endorsement deal.

    What is the net worth of Katrina Kaif?

    The net worth of Katrina Kaif is estimated to be INR 220 Crores in 2021.

    Does Katrina Kaif invest in startups?

    Katrina kaif has invested in startups:

    • Nykaa
    • Kay Beauty

    Is Katrina Kaif a brand ambassador?

    Katrina Kaif has been a brand ambassador for many brands. Currently, she is the brand ambassador of:

    • Slice
    • Lino Perros
    • Reebok India
    • FBB Fashion
    • Metro Shoes
  • How Xiaomi Became Successful In India [Xiaomi Case Study]

    Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese gadget manufacturer established by Lei Jun in 2010 and headquartered in Beijing. Xiaomi makes and puts resources into cell phones, versatile applications, trimmers, headphones, television, and numerous other products. Ranked 468th, Xiaomi was the most youthful organization on Fortune Global 500 List of 2019.

    Xiaomi launched its first cell phone in August 2011 and quickly picked up a piece of the overall industry in China. It became China’s biggest cell phone organization in 2014. At the beginning of the second quarter of 2018, Xiaomi was the world’s fourth-biggest cell phone manufacturer. Xiaomi later built up a more extensive scope of hardware catalog, including a brilliant home (IoT) gadget ecosystem.

    Xiaomi has 15,000 employees in China, India, Malaysia, and Singapore; it is now expanding to different nations like Indonesia, the Philippines, and South Africa. According to Forbes magazine, Lei Jun, the CEO of Xiaomi, has more than $12.5 billion in assets.

    Lei Jun is China’s eleventh most extravagant individual and 118th in the world. Xiaomi is the world’s fourth most important innovative startup in the wake of getting $1.1 billion subsidizing from financial specialists, pegging Xiaomi’s valuation at more than $46 billion.

    History Of Xiaomi Corporation
    Business Strategy Of Xiaomi Corporation
    How Does Xiaomi Prosper And Increase Its Revenue?
    Business Growth Of Xiaomi Corporation
    Future Plans Of Xiaomi
    FAQs

    Xiaomi’s Unique Strategy 

    History Of Xiaomi Corporation

    Xiaomi Corporation
    Xiaomi Corporation

    Xiaomi was founded in April 2010 by Lei Jun. MIUI, the ROM made by Xiaomi, turned into an immense achievement and has been ported to numerous gadgets. Since 2014, MIUI can be downloaded and installed in more than 200 gadgets in both English and Chinese. By the end of 2013, Xiaomi had more than 30 million MIUI clients around the world, an impressive figure for a youthful organization.

    The MIUI ROM isn’t as user-friendly as Apple’s iOS and gives modern administrations, for example, cloud reinforcement, simple to utilize music player, and an application store. The group at Xiaomi joyfully takes on fan criticism using numerous channels and updates the ROM regularly with bug fixes, improvement, and extra highlights.

    In 2011, Xiaomi launched the Mi One phone. Xiaomi just doesn’t make its own product, but it fabricates its own equipment. The Mi One was a top-spec phone with signigicant features.

    While commentators rush to call the Beijing-based organization “The Apple of China”, Xiaomi likes to contrast itself with Amazon. Xiaomi makes ground-breaking equipment which it sells and depends on administration and substance to make up a greater part of its income.

    Xiaomi Ceo - Lei Jun
    Xiaomi Ceo – Lei Jun

    Xiaomi’s income in 2013 alone was over $5 billion, very noteworthy for a young organization. There are comparisons between Xiaomi and Apple as both are equipment and programming organizations, both have solid power over stock-chains, and both have a hot fanbase.

    Aside from this, the two organizations don’t share anything else practically. Apple prices its phones at unbelievable costs and doesn’t take on a lot of client input, whereas Xiaomi is polar opposite.

    Xiaomi dispatched 7.2 million phones in 2012 and 18.7 million phones in 2013. It even sold more than Apple in one quarter. In the principal quarter of 2014, Xiaomi sold over 11 million phones, more than what it sold throughout 2012.

    The demand for Xiaomi keeps increasing because of the good-of its gadgets and the economical price at which its products are sold in universal markets, for example, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore.

    Hugo Barra (ex-Google android official) has been tasked with the job of overseeing Xiaomi’s expansion beyond China. Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, and India will see Xiaomi phones straightaway.


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    Business Strategy Of Xiaomi Corporation

    Xiaomi had some wonderful achievements in its third entire year as a device creator. The Company is on course to sell 60 million phones this year, and it has ensured footed (if rather moderate) strides into various markets in Asia, for example, Indonesia and India. The organization’s development is amazing given the the variety in its product catalog aside from phones.

    An ongoing social marking report on Xiaomi by Resonance China dissects an enormous assortment of the startup’s procedures and shows how pleasantly they are working out.

    Xiaomi's Business Model
    Xiaomi’s Business Model

    The business strategies are described below:

    Xiaomi – A Web-Based Business Organization

    Business visionary and Xiaomi prime supporter Lei Jun states Xiaomi as a web-based business organization—one of the numerous reasons he loathes the successive examinations among Xiaomi and Apple. They feel a comparison with Amazon is more relevant. Xiaomi has its e-store and has a customer-facing facade on Alibaba’s Tmall. The numbers back up Lei Jun’s case.

    Xiaomi’s site is the third biggest business-to-customer (B2C) internet business store in China in terms of deals volume (behind Tmall and nearest rival JD). On China’s Singles Day on November 11, a business bonanza saw $9.3 billion spent on Tmall; and Xiaomi was the top brand on Alibaba’s commercial center that day.

    Xiaomi sold 1.2 million telephones during the 24-hour deals occasion, piling on, alongside offers of some different devices, RMB 1.56 billion ($254 million) in items sold.

    Xiaomi by and large sells its gadgets in constrained glimmer deals, ordinarily in clusters of around 50,000 to 100,000 in China and bigger sums abroad. Thus, Xiaomi fabricates only what is certain to sell.

    The upstart organization’s attempt to close the deal doesn’t stop once somebody has purchased a phone. New clients find that their phone includes a pre-installed Xiaomi store application.

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    The Landing Page Is An E-store

    Most device brands use their landing pages as showrooms or celebrated online adverts. Xiaomi gets to the point by making its landing page into an unadulterated web-based business store.

    Xiaomi’s e-store is updated every day to put an accentuation on which items are next accessible in its progressing streak deals. “Xiaomi’s item pages copy best practices from Tmall,” says Rand Han, the organizer and overseeing chief of Resonance China.

    Tmall is China’s greatest image-arranged online commercial center with a huge number of merchants, for example, Uniqlo, Costco, and Burberry. That makes Xiaomi’s site design recognizable to the huge number of customers on Tmall and other mainstream online business locales in China.

    It has the typical tabs to switch between pictures, details, and purchasers’ audits and appraisals. Apple’s site isolates all that stuff into the Apple Online Store, whereas Xiaomi keeps it upfront.

    Uses Another Sort Of Social Trade

    Since Xiaomi generally sells its phones over the web, online networking is significant. It does this in China, for the most part, using Weibo, and in new markets, Xiaomi uses Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.

    On Weibo, Xiaomi regularly observes commitment levels well more than 60%, as per the Resonance China report, on account of incessant everyday posts on an amazing assortment of themes.

    Not exclusively is there the standard buzz for items and news about glimmer deals, yet also motivating forces for retweets, how-to aides, and fun things like photograph challenges. Xiaomi’s Weibo will likewise retweet some popular substance significant to its users by circumventing China’s web. The retweet also binds into social issues around contraptions and innovation.

    Each Item Range Has A Social Center

    Xiaomi has 10 primary Weibo accounts, the most prominent of which is the Xiaomi Mobile Weibo with near 11 million fans; the latest account for the MiPad has crossed 500,000 followers.

    Xiaomi’s corporate Weibo account has 4,000,000 adherents, demonstrating that individuals would prefer to communicate online with contraptions (as it were) as opposed to an organization.

    Notwithstanding Xiaomi’s social records, the company’s administrators are likewise active on Weibo and fill in as brand representatives. Lei Jun has more than 11 million supporters, while Lin Bin has more than 4,000,000.

    Consistent Shortage

    Xiaomi’s glimmer deals help it get control over stock and lessen wastage, staying away from the sort of over-creation calamities seen as of late with Amazon’s Fire Phone and Microsoft’s Surface RT.

    While that makes it harder to get a Xiaomi device, the organization has figured out how to turn that into a positive, making occasional promotion in terms of offering a predetermined number of gadgets every week.

    Xiaomi’s online life accounts, especially on Weibo and WeChat, play a key job in driving individuals to the enrollment page for each new blaze deal.

    At that point, when a glimmer deal is finished, Xiaomi uses “fast sell-out” stats in further online networking postings; for instance, 50,000 Mi4 cell phones sold out in only 25 seconds. Not every person invites streak deals. The procedure is unquestionably much more mind-boggling than the typical snap-and-checkout on most online business locales.

    The framework appears to have met with more analysis outside of China than it has in Xiaomi’s home country. When Xiaomi propelled in India in September, it confronted a reaction as interest exceeded supply by a factor of two-to-one, bringing about a rush of baffled and disappointed remarks on the brand’s Facebook India page. Notwithstanding those disadvantages, new phone manufacturers are imitating Xiaomi (OnePlus) using blaze deals.


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    Brings Down The Cost Of “Premium”

    For Apple, premiums start at about $700. For Samsung, it’s about $600. However, Xiaomi slashed it in half in 2011 by offering phones premium specs (yet a simple, blocky structure) at low prices – just $325. Xiaomi has also increased its equipment configuration game with the goal that the feel of the phone doesn’t contrast with the amazing specs.

    Enlivened by Apple, Xiaomi instructs purchasers on its plan reasoning, underscoring attention on straightforwardness and usefulness in its items. Xiaomi’s very own rendition of Android, called MIUI, has additionally assisted with this superior feel as it is more preferred than most of the Android skins out there.

    Runs Its Locale

    Alongside its cautious online networking stratagem, Xiaomi is likewise starring dynamic in running its locale gatherings, or BBS. This is the place the brand’s most bad-to-the-bone fans, named “Mi fans,” meet to examine devices, share information, and by and large hang out.

    This is something regular to Chinese organizations, yet to a great extent unused by significant brands abroad. Xiaomi’s BBS has 30 million enrolled clients and sees 579,000 new posts day by day.


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    How Does Xiaomi Prosper And Increase Its Revenue?

    Q2 of 2018 saw Xiaomi a 152% hop in its abroad income which is esteemed at about Rs 16,700 crores. The internet services help Xiaomi get a net benefit of around 60%. At the point when it at first began its tasks in India, Xiaomi profoundly relied upon informal publicizing to spare any kind of overhead cost.

    This enabled the Chinese giant to sell its items (cell phones particularly) at a lower cost than its rivals. Xiaomi was able to pull in more clients as a result. More procurement implies more clients who use Xiaomi gadgets.

    Some of its clients will, in general, become faithful to administrations like the MIUI, Mi Store, and so on. This is what Xiaomi needed ever since it began manufacturing phones. Selling the best of equipment at a lower cost and creating a dedicated fanbase is Xiaomi’s plan of action.

    Xiaomi's Smartphone Sales
    Xiaomi’s Smartphone Sales

    Things weren’t, however, that simple for the Chinese company. After an underlying lift to its cell phone deals, Xiaomi went down in positioning not long after players like Oppo, Vivo, and Huawei (with Honor) overwhelmed the phone space through disconnected streams. Even though Xiaomi was the pioneer in the online space, individuals still favored purchasing phones physically.

    Therefore, Xiaomi started to grow its disconnected nearness by opening Mi Home stores and joining hands with the neighborhood merchants. Opening Mi Home Stores achieved two targets:

    1. Xiaomi now had one more channel to sell phones.
    2. People visiting the Mi Home Stores would regularly wind up purchasing different extras like power banks, earphones, and other accessories fabricated by Xiaomi.

    Business Growth Of Xiaomi Corporation

    In the second quarter of 2021, Xiaomi’s total revenue amounted to RMB 87.8 billion. Xiami has recorded an increase of 64.0% year-over-year. It adjusted net profit for the period was RMB 6.3 billion.

    The Chinese have a fixation with establishing world precedents. So when Xiaomi propelled 500 disconnected stores in India in October, 2019 at the same time, it registered a global record to its name. For a brand that has greatly depended on web-based blaze deals, opening so many stores was a new strategy.

    Internationally, cell phone shipments declined 4.1% in the last quarter of 2018, topping off the “most noticeably awful year ever” for cell phone shipments as reported by industry tracker IDC. Be that as it may, India hasn’t seen any stoppage.

    In 2018, almost 142.3 million cell phones were dispatched in India. That implies a development of 14.5% over the earlier year. Among the cell phones sold in India, Xiaomi has seen significant strides with a 58.6% year-on-year increment in unit deals in 2018 to capture a piece of the overall industry at 28.9% (IDC stats).

    It has been in the Indian phone market for just four years but has overtaken Samsung. The latter has a 22.4% share of the overall industry. India represents more than 33% of Xiaomi’s cell phone deals all around.

    In 2018, Xiaomi India booked an income of Rs 23,000 crore ($3.24 billion), a 174% development over the earlier year, selling telephones valued at a normal price of $142.53. Samsung’s cell phone business in India rounded up about Rs 37,349 crore ($4.82 billion) in a similar period, up 9% from the prior year.

    The South Korean organization’s phones are valued higher with the catalog starting at $250.

    Xiaomi's Full Year Revenue
    Xiaomi’s Full Year Revenue

    In 2016, Xiaomi propelled the RedMi Note 3 and the RedMi 3S — both selling like hot cakes and helping the organization cut into the offers of Indian makers such as Micromax and Lava.

    Xiaomi presently sells disconnected in more than 40 urban communities and has more than 4,000 favored accomplices who sell Xiaomi phones. It likewise propelled enormous organization retailers that year through Sangeeta, Poorvika, Croma, and Reliance Digital. The third mainstay of the organization’s disconnected procedure was propelling Mi Home stores, which only sell Xiaomi gadgets.

    One aspect that has worked very well for Xiaomi is the organization’s evaluating procedure. Xiaomi co-founder Lei Jun broadly said a year ago that the organization could never make over 5% edges from its equipment portfolio, adjusting the organization to its vision of going past being an equipment creator.

    “India is very value touchy and almost (every) client survey of the Xiaomi telephone will say that it is useful at the cost,” says Vijay Raj, a Bengaluru-based blogger and analyst.

    It’s not just about making modest smartphones. There’s likewise something exceptionally shrewd affecting everything here. As a Harvard Business Review article brings up, Xiaomi keeps its models in the market longer than other telephone producers.

    So when segment costs fall, Xiaomi makes a benefit. A half-year prior, it posted a $2.1 billion benefit for its first quarter of business as a traded-on-an-open market organization.

    According to one gauge, Xiaomi’s MIUI has around 70 million month to month dynamic clients. That makes it a ground-breaking conveyance stage. “They would need to investigate what we can do to make extra dollars of it,” says Kawoosa of TechArt. Xiaomi is making Rs 40-45 for each client for each month, he says.

    MIUI was one of the earliest cell phone working frameworks making use of locally available infrared blaster to control apparatuses at home. It additionally presented clever highlights that make it simple for clients to duplicate one-time passwords for online exchanges and organize train booking affirmation messages to conspicuously show the PNR number.

    Xiaomi's Vs Other Brand Growth
    Xiaomi’s Vs Other Brand Growth

    Xiaomi likewise lets clients arrange two WhatsApp numbers on the same phone.. Xiaomi, generally speaking, has an arrangement of more than 200 items — extending from a pen to a cleanser gadget to consoles and PCs — a catalog created through its “biological system accomplices.” Most of these aren’t sold in India yet.

    The organization plans to get as many brilliant gadgets as reasonably possible on a typical Internet of Things platform it calls the “Mi Home application”. The primary classes in India are presently telephones, TVs, control banks, sound, wearables, and air purifiers. In September, Xiaomi propelled a home surveillance camera.

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    Future Plans Of Xiaomi

    During his visit to India, Xiaomi’s Founder and CEO Lei Jun discussed the organization’s arrangements, techniques, targets, and a few indications on the upcoming product offerings for the Indian market. Here are some key highlights of his discussion:

    Plans To Expand Disconnected Piece Of The Pie

    “If we see by and large market, online is a little piece… so it’s somewhat reliant on what number of individuals embrace the Internet. In China, after we have accomplished such a scale (in the online market), the test is how we can accomplish the equivalent in disconnected with effectiveness.

    In India, after we accomplished over half piece of the pie in online space, the inquiry is how to do likewise in disconnected,” Jun said.

    New Assembling Plant

    Xiaomi recently enlisted a assembling plant in Andhra Pradesh and guaranteed that over 95% of its phones for the Indian market would now be produced locally. As indicated by this ET report, the organization may even take a gander at sending out Indian produced phones later on.

    The cell phone producer as of late guaranteed that it has crossed $1 billion in income from its India operations. Xiaomi makes money by selling phones, wearables, frill, air purifiers, and so on.

    In Q4 2016, Xiaomi was the second biggest merchant in India as far as phone shipments were concerned, as indicated by IDC. The organization’s Mi Band shipments additionally represented 10.3% of the Indian wearables market in Q2 2016.

    More Stockrooms And Administration Focuses

    The organization is additionally setting up a third distribution center in Delhi NCR and plans to twofold its administrations focus check from 250 to 500 by the principal half of this current year.

    Note that Xiaomi has its web-based business store named mi.com in India. In July 2015, Xiaomi declared that it would also put in resources for setting up a claim distribution center and coordinations.

    As disclosed to The Hindu, Xiaomi will dispatch another arrangement of items, although Lei Jun didn’t mention what sort of items they would be. Jun additionally implied that the organization is keen on venturing into the money related segment in India.

    We are investigating the probability of giving budgetary administrations in India. Be that as it may, this part is exceptionally managed. It requires various licenses. If we could get such licenses, we are glad to be a piece of this monetary administration’s development in India.

    We have to comprehend if there are confinements on remote substances,” Jun says. Xiaomi additionally has an installment administration called Mi Pay that is only accessible in China at the moment and has tied up with Bank of China and Union Pay, a card arrange in China.

    On Creating New Openings And Income Targets

    Jun likewise talked about how the organization focuses on making 20,000 new openings in the following three years by venturing into disconnected retails, assembling, and dissemination. Addressing ET, Jun said that the organization plans to create near $15 billion in general income by concentrating on developing markets like India and Indonesia.

    FAQs

    What is the origin of Xiaomi?

    Xiaomi was established in April 2010 by Lei Jun and headquartered in Beijing, China.

    Who is the founder of Xiaomi?

    Xiaomi was founded by Lei Jun, Lin Bin, Zhou Guangping, Wong Jiangji, Wang Chuan, Liu De, Li Wanqiang, and Hong Feng.

    How does Xiaomi make money?

    Xiaomi makes money by selling phones, wearables, frill, air purifiers, and so on. In Q4 2016, Xiaomi was the second biggest merchant in India as far as phone shipments were concerned, as indicated by IDC. The organization’s Mi Band shipments additionally represented 10.3% of the Indian wearables market in Q2 2016.

    What makes Xiaomi unique?

    Its varied and unique ecosystem of products and the different way of marketing makes Xiaomi Successful and unique from others.

    Is Xiaomi trusted brand?

    Xiaomi Corporation is a trusted Chinese gadget manufacturer established by Lei Jun in 2010 and headquartered in Beijing.

    Why Xiaomi is successful in India?

    Xiaomi propelled 500 disconnected stores in India in October at the same time, it registered a global record to its name. For a brand that has greatly depended on web-based blaze deals, opening so many stores was a new strategy. Internationally, cell phone shipments declined 4.1% in the last quarter of 2018, topping off the “most noticeably awful year ever” for cell phone shipments as reported by industry tracker IDC. Be that as it may, India hasn’t seen any stoppage.

    Is Xiaomi and Huawei same company?

    No, Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese gadget manufacturer established by Lei Jun in 2010 and headquartered in Beijing, While Huawei is another multinational company of China and a competitor of Xiaomi.

  • List of Brands Endorsed By Ranveer Singh

    Celebrity endorsements are popular in the current marketing world as they tend to reap huge rewards to the companies. The main advantages of brand endorsements is that it helps in building brand equity and stand out among the other brands. The brands need to select the right celebrity that will represent the image and promise of their brand.

    That is why Ranveer Singh is among the top five most in demand celebrity for brand endorsements in India. The reason for his popularity in the advertising world is because he is a talented and a versatile actor with a huge fan following especially among the youth. Ranveer Singh is an Indian actor known for his work in the Bollywood Industry.

    The actor has won several awards in the Filmfares and also has been featured in the Forbes India’s Celebrity 100 list since 2012. Ranveer Singh is known for versatile performance in movies such as Band Baaja Baaraat, Lootera, Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ramleela, Bajirao Mastani, Padmaavat, Gully Boy, etc. According to Forbes in 2017, Ranveer Singh made over Rs. 62.63 Crore during the year which mainly came from the popular brand endorsements.

    Despite his box office hits the actor is also an avid endorser of over 34 brands and is known to charge Rs 7 to 12 crore annually for an endorsement deal. Ranveer Singh is one of the highest-paid actor in India and has a net worth of $30 million and a brand value of $102.9 million in 2021.

    Here is a list of all the brands Endorsed by Ranveer Singh.

    MakeMyTrip
    Ching’s Secret
    Thumps Up
    Xiaomi India
    JBL
    Kotak Mahindra Bank
    Jack And Jones
    Maruti Suzuki
    Lloyd
    Bingo
    Frequently Asked Questions

    MakeMyTrip

    MakeMyTrip is an Indian online travel company that was founded in 2000 by Deep Kalra. The company has its headquarters based in Gurugram, Haryana and is known to provide online travel services such as flight tickets, domestic and international holiday packages, hotel reservations, rail and bus tickets.

    As of 2018, MakeMyTrip has over 14 company owned travel stores in 14 different cities, more than 30 franchises owned stores in 28 cities and counters in four main airports in India. The company has its offices in countries like New York, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Phuket, Bangkok and Dubai.

    MakeMyTrip announced Alia Bhatt and Ranveer Singh as its brand ambassadors in 2016 and the duo has so far appeared in many television commercials and campaigns that garnered high visibility and presence across different mediums. The company choose them in order to connect with the brand’s younger target audience and to strengthen the brand’s appeal, stature and recall.


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    Ching’s Secret

    Chings Secret was founded 1996 by Capital Foods and has its headquarters in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The company manufactures products such as noodles, soups, sauces, masalas and chutneys. The mastermind behind this company was Ajay Gupta, who used his marketing experience, to explore profitable niches and came up with Ching’s Secret, a brand that would offer Desi Chinese, an Indo-Chinese or fusion cuisine.

    Ranveer Singh has been the face of the brand for more than six years and has been a part of many advertisements and campaigns done by the company. One of the most popular Chings ad has Ranveer doing a music video titled “My name is Ranveer Chings”. The success of this high-energy video helped the company reach out to its audience and become of the big companies the market.

    When asked on why Ranveer choose Chings, the actor said that he was happy to be associated with Ching’s Secret as he is also a Hakka Chinese fanatic and is a big fan of their noodles, soups and masalas. He also added that he was proud to be the face of the pioneer brand of the Hakka Chinese flavour in India and the world.

    Thumps Up

    Thumps Up is a brand of Coca Cola in India. The company was originally introduced in 1977 to offset the withdrawal of the Coca Cola Company from India, the company was then bought by Coca Cola who re-launched it in order to compete against PepsiCo. In 2012, the company became a leader in the carbonated soft drink market of the country with over 15% market share in the Indian aerated waters markets.

    Thumps up as a brand has always had a strong resonance with action, energy and a go getter spirit, this is why Ranveer is considered an ideal brand ambassador for the brand. Ranveer has been featured in many of the brands commercials which consists the actor performing high energy stunts to get a thumps up.

    In a statement, Debabrata Mukherjee, the Vice President of Coca Cola India said that, “The company advertising is set apart because its energetic, fast paced and stylishly and inimitable style, which will help amplify the aspirational quotient of the brand.”

    Xiaomi India

    Xiaomi is a Chinese multinational electronics company that was originally founded in 2010. The company was headquartered is Beijing and is known for manufacturing smartphones, mobile apps, laptops home appliances, bags, shoes, consumer electronics among others.

    Xiaomi is also the fourth company in world that has made a self-developed mobile system on chip (SOC) capabilities. In 2018, Xiaomi became the world fourth largest smartphone manufacturer, not only that it also is the leading brand in the Chinese and Indian market. As of 2019, the company got 291.6 million monthly users and 18,170 employees around the world.

    Xiaomi made Ranveer Singh as its brand ambassador, the actor has appeared in many advertisements to endorse its range of smartphones in India. According to Anuj Sharma, the CMO of Xiaomi India, the company choose Ranveer as its brand ambassador because with the actor the company can establish a meaningful bond with the consumers, in order to gain relevant visibility and create a stronger impact.


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    JBL

    JBL is an American company that is known for its high end audio equipment including loudspeakers and headphones. JBL is divided into two segments which are JBL Consumer which creates products for consumer’s home market and JBL Professional which creates products for studios, installed sound, tour sound, portable sound and cinema markets.

    The company is owned by Harman International Industries which is a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics. The company announced Ranveer Singh as it Global brand ambassador in 2019, the actor has endorsed many new consumer audio products of JBL and has also participated in marketing initiatives to further strengthen JBL’s dominance in the country.

    In a statement Pradeep Chaudhry, Country Manager of Harman India said that, “Ranveer’s captivating personality, contagious drive and incredible talent make him a true JBL ambassador. Apart from being a powerhouse of acting, Ranveer is contributing to the music ecosystem in India and we can’t wait to take this collaboration to the next level.”

    Kotak Mahindra Bank

    Kotak Mahindra Bank is an Indian private sector bank that has its headquarters based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It offers a variety of banking and financial services for corporate clients and retail customers in the areas of personal finance, investment banking, life insurance and wealth management.

    As of 2021, Kotak became the third largest Indian private sector bank by market capitalization as it has over 1600 branches and more than 2519 ATMs. Ranveer Singh became the banks’s brand ambassador in 2018 and has done a couple of TV advertisements endorsing the bank’s services.

    The most recent ad features Ranveer talking about how our society often discriminates people on the basis of religion, caste, creed, sexual orientation and abilities.  The ad also portrays the similarities between Kotak’s 811 service and a bench at a railway station which provides services to everyone despite of where they all come from.


    List of Brands Endorsed By Amitabh Bachchan
    A brand ambassador is one of the most important part of a company, because theyembody the brand that he or she is endorsing, influencing consumers and raisingawareness. In today marketing landscape many brands prefer to have a youngcelebrity, but the one celebrity that is an exception is Amitabh …


    Jack And Jones

    Jack and Jones is one of Europe leading menswear fashion brand, it has a strong legacy of craftsmanship, unmatched quality and exemplary style.

    Jack and Jones originally started in 1990 and currently holds a strong position in the sphere of trend inspired fashion for the cosmopolitan man. The company currently has over 1000 stores in 38 countries. In India, the brand stands has over 69 Exclusive Brand Outlets and more than 221 Shop-In-Shop.

    Ranveer Singh was announced as the company’s brand ambassador in 2016 with a commercial “Don’t hold back” which became very popular. The ad features Ranveer Singh singing a song entitled Don’t Hold Back. In a statement the actor said that, Don’t Hold Back is a strong message that he believe will resonate with the youth of the nation.

    Maruti Suzuki

    Maruti Suzuki is one the most successful subsidiary of the Japanese automotive manufacturer Suzuki. The company was owned by the Government of India until 2003 after which it was sold to Suzuki Motor Corporation. As of 2018, the company had over 53% in the Indian car market. The first manufacturing factory of the company was established in Gurugram, Haryana.

    The company made Ranveer Singh its brand ambassador and so far the actor has appeared in many of its advertisements. One of the recent commercials features Ranveer promoting a new model Maruti Suzuki Nexa Ciaz. The company also made a 6 minutes 47 seconds video in which Ranveer Singh has done a proper review of this new car.


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    Lloyd

    Lloyd is a brand of Havells, and a pioneer in the AC category. Recently the brand has created niche in the country with its quality standards along with unmatched product range, services and warranty. The company has over 3 million happy customers as it offers a wide variety of technologically advanced and designed ensemble of new-age Air Conditioners, LED TV and Washing Machine.

    Lloyd India has gotten Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone as their brand ambassador in order to endorse Lloyd range of consumer’s durables. The brand choose the duo because they have a huge following of around 90 million fans on social media. Also, this is the first time the couple came together to endorse the same brand.

    Bingo

    Bingo is one of the fastest growing branded snack brand that belongs to ITC Limited. Bingo represents ITC Food’s fifth major line the FMCG sector after the highly successful Staples, Biscuits, Ready-to-Eat and Confectionery businesses. The ITC Food’s sector is one of the fastest growing FMCG company with an estimated growth rate of 30% annually.

    ITC made Ranveer Singh the brand ambassador for Bingo in 2019. In a statement the company said that, the advertisements featuring Ranveer have enthralled the audience with its quirky, fun and lovable sequences. They also added that, Ranveer Singh quintessential quirky avatar is a perfect fit for the brand. Ranveer Singh will now be the face of the brand on all its commercials and ads across multiple media platforms.


    List of Brands Endorsed by Anushka Sharma
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    Frequently Asked Questions

    Who is Ranveer Singh?

    Ranveer Singh is an Indian actor known for his work in the Bollywood Industry.

    What is the brand value of Ranveer Singh?

    The brand value of Ranveer Singh is estimated to be around $102.9 million as of 2021.

    What are the main brands endorsed by Ranveer Singh?

    The main brands endorsed by Ranveer Singh are Kotak Mahindra Bank, Ching’s, ITC’s Bingo Snacks, JBL, Llyod, Xiaomi India, Maruti Suzuki Nexa, Jack And Jones, Thumps Up and MakeMy Trip.

    What are the other brands endorsed by Ranveer Singh?

    The other brands endorsed by Ranveer Singh are Nerolac Paints, the English Premier League, Manyawar, Nivea Men, Colgate, Okaya Power Group, Flite, Kajaria Ply, Dish TV, Siyaram’s, Big Muscles Nutrition, Jack And Jones, Switzerland Tourism, Vivo, Rupa Innerwear, Head and Shoulders, Kellogg’s, Royal Stag, etc.

    How much does Ranveer Singh charge for brand endorsement?

    Ranveer Singh is known to charge Rs 7 to 12 crore annually for an endorsements deal.

    What is the net worth of Ranveer Singh?

    The net worth of Ranveer Singh is estimated to be $30 million.

    Conclusion

    Ranveer Singh is one the top five celebrities that are in demand for endorsements deals in India. The actor endorses everything from clothing line, deodorant, toothpaste, mobile brands, innerwear, snacks, to soft drinks among others.  Ranveer Singhs deals are apparently worth Rs 84 crores which is very close to Akshay Kumar.

    Ranveer Singh understands the advertising industry very well as he has experience as a copywriter in advertising firms and hence always tries to add something on his own in the ads which he is featured in.

    According to data provided by AdEx India, the actor clocked 11,472 minutes on TV in 2020. Despite the pandemic the actor is still popular especially among the youth related brands because he has hard to get to where he is in the industry, resonates with the young aspirational population and endorses brands targeted to this segment.