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Case Study · D2C Brand Launch · Content Strategy

LEVELLING UP GROCERY
SHOPPING HABITS

How Fortune Online was launched as India's first direct-to-consumer grocery platform and why the brief was never really about atta.

BrandFortune, Adani Wilmar
Campaign#NayeBharatKiNayiDelivery
Year2021
PlatformFortune Online App
450K+
Video views across platforms
1.36L+
Campaign reach, #NayeBharatKiNayiDelivery
1L+
YouTube views, Diwali campaign video
11%
Engagement rate, Diwali video on Facebook
60K+
Impressions across digital handles
#NayeBharatKiNayiDelivery Fortune Online App · One-stop-shop for all Fortune products

From brief to brand,
end to end.

This was not a campaign execution brief. It was a brand-building brief for a product that did not yet exist in market. Fortune Online was Adani Wilmar's first direct-to-consumer platform, a new channel, a new relationship with the customer, and a new way of thinking about a brand that had previously only lived on supermarket shelves.

Conceptual Ideation Creative Strategy Copywriting Naming Workshop Facilitation Brand Strategy

The brief was grocery.
The problem was behaviour.

COVID-19 compressed a decade of D2C adoption into eighteen months. Supermarkets strained. Supply chains shortened. Home delivery stopped being a convenience and became a necessity. In this window, Adani Wilmar launched Fortune Online, the only platform dealing directly with consumers across the full Fortune product range.

The platform had strong product foundations: free delivery, first-order gifts, exclusive combos, doorstep access to everything from atta to edible oil. But the communication challenge was deeper than awareness. Fortune was a brand Indians trusted in the kitchen, not online. The task was to transfer that trust to a new behaviour, ordering groceries through an app, without losing the warmth and familiarity that made Fortune feel like home.

"Ab Chakki ka purana swaad, Fortune Online delivery ke saath." The brief in one line: keep the taste, change the habit.

Nostalgia as a
growth strategy.

The insight that unlocked everything: Indians don't buy atta. They buy the memory of their mother's rotis. The chakki, the stone mill, is a sensory shorthand for freshness, purity and home. Fortune Chakki Fresh Atta had already borrowed that equity. The launch campaign's job was to extend it into a new context: doorstep delivery.

Rather than positioning Fortune Online as a technology convenience, we framed it as a restoration. The old taste, now reachable without leaving home. #NayeBharatKiNayiDelivery carried both registers simultaneously: new India, new delivery, but the same Fortune your family has always trusted.

Conventional D2C framing
Fast delivery. Easy app. Great deals.
Order in minutes, delivered to your door
Technology making life easier
New platform, new experience
Fortune Online framing
Chakki ka purana swaad, at your door
The taste you grew up with, without stepping out
India's trusted kitchen brand, now direct to you
Same Fortune. Naye Bharat ki naye delivery.

The work.

Fortune Online, Ab Chakki ka purana swaad creative
Hero Creative
Ab Chakki ka purana swaad, Fortune Online delivery ke saath.
The lead visual anchors the campaign's core tension: the sensory warmth of a traditional chakki, wheat grains, rotis, the earthy palette of the kitchen, set against the clarity of a modern delivery promise. The Fortune pack sits in the frame not as product placement but as proof. This is the same atta, now available directly from brand to you.

Multiple formats.
One consistent idea.

Rather than producing a single hero campaign, we built a content ecosystem. Multiple video formats designed to serve different stages of the customer journey, from awareness to conversion to retention. Each format was distinct in style but unified in voice.

01
Stop-Motion
Product storytelling through tactile, handcrafted visual language reinforcing the artisanal quality of Fortune's ingredients
02
Typography
Campaign messaging brought to life through kinetic type, driving recall for the hashtag and platform proposition
03
Motion Graphics
App features, offers and product benefits communicated through clean, shareable animated content
04
Recipe Corner
Utility-driven content showing Fortune products in use, driving retention and organic engagement through practical value
05
Tactical Content
Festival moments, offers and in-app features communicated in real time, including the 11% engagement Diwali video

Content ran across YouTube, Facebook and digital handles, with YouTube carrying the longer-form brand story and Facebook driving tactical engagement and festival moments.

Numbers from a
brand-new channel.

Video Performance
450K+
Total video views across platforms
1L+
YouTube views, Diwali campaign video
Campaign Reach
1.36L+
Audience reached, #NayeBharatKiNayiDelivery
60K+
Impressions across digital handles
Engagement
11%
Engagement rate, Diwali video on Facebook
Positive
Sentiment shift across all social handles
What this actually built
Fortune Online was not just a new app. It was a new relationship between a heritage FMCG brand and its customers. The campaign's job was to make that relationship feel familiar before it was established. By anchoring a D2C launch in sensory memory rather than technology convenience, the work gave Fortune Online something most new platforms take years to earn: trust on day one.