Castrol India Limited has named V Kaushik Vedula as its new vice president and head of Marketing, effective February 2, 2026. In his most recent role, Vedula served as vice president of Marketing at Emami Limited, where he oversaw brand and business strategy across multiple categories. Prior to that, he was vice president at Quess Corp, where he built and scaled a digital product business and led growth initiatives.
Vedula has more than two decades of experience across consumer goods, fast-moving consumer durables, and digital businesses. He started his career in 2004 and has served in marketing, new business development, and profit-and-loss responsibilities in large organizations and entrepreneurial settings. He has worked with Procter & Gamble, Nokia, and Philips in roles including brand management, consumer marketing, category development, and multi-channel sales management.
Castrol India Limited is an India-based lubricant company. The Company is engaged in manufacturing and marketing of automotive and industrial lubricants and related services. The Company's brands include Castrol CRB, Castrol GTX, Castrol Activ, Castrol POWER1, Castrol MAGNATEC and Castrol VECTON, Castrol EDGE, Castrol Go!, Castrol On and Castrol RX. The Company also operates in high performance lubricants and metalworking fluids used in a variety of industries, such as automotive manufacturing, mining, machinery and wind energy. Its services include Castrol Pitshop and Castrol Bike Point. Its commercial vehicle products include engine oils, transmission fluids, coolants, greases, diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) and hydraulic fluids. It produces a range of advanced electric vehicle (EV) transmission fluids, thermal fluids and EV greases. It has a manufacturing and distribution network with around three blending plants and a distribution network of 350 distributors and 100,000 retail outlets.
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