Based out of Chennai, The Bumblebee Branding Company, started by Achinthya Suresh and Sastharam Ravendran, is an advertising agency focused on helping brands, big or small, unleash their true potential through the right communication, branding, and digital marketing campaigns. It is a digital powerhouse that is equipped to handle end-toend branding and marketing requirements inhouse, with a focus on building a space for businesses in the digital world.

Being born with a mission to solve brand problems, Bumblebee offers a myriad range of services to its clients. Their core competencies include branding, re-branding, marketing and advertising, lead generation, and sales enablement. Bumblebee is also equipped to strategise, conduct research, write content, design & develop static and dynamic content/ assets, and provide analytical data to help businesses scale.

The talented team at Bumblebee takes pride in the fact that they are enabled to handle marketing activities for companies of any size. Especially for startups and new organizations, Bumblebee offers a 52-week partnership where the agency helps companies build their brand from scratch, establish it in the market, analyze the results, and help elevate their strategy. For companies that are just launching and don’t have a dedicated marketing team yet, the bees act like the extended marketing team where they help them hit the ground running.

“One thing that makes The Bumblebee Branding Company stand out from the rest is that we are partners and not vendors. From start to finish, we are with our clients every step of the way. We always go the extra mile for our customers and ensure they feel that they are part of the Bumblebee family. We help our clients achieve their business goals, and become key players in their industry”, says Sastharam Ravendran, Co-Founder, The Bumblebee Branding Company.

The Work Culture at Bumblebee
The Bumblebee’s hive brims with energy, enthusiasm, positivity, and optimism. The bees are a team with a nothing-can-stop-us kind of an attitude. The team is an empowered and driven community of bees that work together, laugh together, and play together.

“When we first started BBC in 2017, Achinthya and I were particular that this would be a place filled with laughter, intelligent discussion, and positivity. We are always laughing and talking when we are working and I feel that contributes to the quality of work as well”, says Sastharam. “We are happy people who like a happy workplace and like to keep our clients happy as well”, he adds.

The bees come from humble and varying backgrounds, but together, they anchor one of the world’s strongest, toughest, and most successful teams through their unshakeable values and beliefs. The Bumblebees are proud to say that they work hard and play hard. They feel that things aren’t fun when it is easy. For them, the more challenging the task, the better. Keeping this in mind, the team has worked on multi continental projects both in-person and online, and succeeded in them as well.

Going Forward
The Bumblebee Branding Company has clients across the world, including the United States, Dubai, and Australia. Some of the projects handled by Bumblebee for high-profile clients include The Government of Tamil Nadu, Naturals Salons, Thalapakatti Biryani, Butterfly Home Appliances, The Hindu, Flipkart, Specsmakers, TVS, Hiranandani Group, and RKG Ghee.

Talking about future plans for Bumblebee, Achinthya Suresh, Co-Founder, The Bumblebee Branding Company concludes, “The agency has been on a spree post-COVID with year-on-year revenues increasing by 200 percent for the last 2 consecutive years. Now, we are aiming to reach the Rs2.5 crore mark by the end of 2023. Moreover, we are developing a SaaS model that will benefit the new age startups and new business owners with DIY marketing. In addition to this, for our clients, we not only help them establish their brands but work on bringing leads and generating revenue for them through our sales expertise”.