BL Agro Obtains Naming Rights For Platforms 14, 15, & 16 At NDLS

BL Agro becomes the first company to be granted naming rights for New Delhi Railway Station platforms 14, 15 and 16. The tenure of the rights with BL Agro is for one year initially, starting this October.

This is the first time that such a tie-up with private players has been made possible, and the honour has been awarded to reputed businesses or government organisations.

With this agreement, Platforms 14 and 15 will be named as ‘Nourish Platform 14 and 15’ and Platform 16 as ‘Bail Kolhu Platform No. 16’.

As per Senior Railway Officials, “This is an innovative and groundbreaking concept where a license is given for platform branding to a private entity”

Ghanshyam Khandelwal, Chairman, BL Agro says, "It is an appreciable initiative taken by Indian Railways, and I congratulate the ministry for such a progressive vision. It indeed is a landmark moment for us and we’re ecstatic to be spearheading it for New Delhi Railway Station.”

Speaking on the strategy, Ashish Khandelwal, Managing Director, BL Agro explains, “We chose Platforms 14, 15, and 16 because the majority of the trains that depart from there are for Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, the two states where the bulk of our target audience resides. It's a meeting of minds. On average, each platform handles 13 to 23 trains per day, and the number of passengers the entire station gets is over 2 lakhs. Come the festive seasons, the footfall reaches 6 lakhs daily. It opens for us an unusual window to reach deeper into our target market in an unexplored way." 

Leads Brand Connect 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 women, alongside creating an experience zone for the brands. It will also take care of the upkeep and maintenance of the branded infrastructure.

Richa Khandelwal, Managing Director, Leads Brand Connect, shares, "Branding of railway platforms has never been done in India, so we get the opportunity to approach the project through an experimental, artistic yet very human lens. LBC and BL Agro have collaborated for a long time, ideating campaigns that broke stereotypes time and again and sparked raging conversations. This gives us yet another chance to do some out-of-the-box thinking on how to brand Platform 16 for Bail Kolhu and Platforms 14 and 15 for Nourish."