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Social Spin Doctor

Daniel Lubetzky has spun chocolate, nuts and do-gooder rhetoric into a snack company worth billions. Maybe someday he’ll get back to his true passion: Changing the world for the better.

Will L&T Chip Away Mindtree's Value With Takeover?

Despite some synergies, the conglomerate may struggle to retain key people.

MMT's Amazon Trip

How India’s biggest online travel aggregator is opting for scale in a trade-off with the bottom line. But can it replicate the success of the US ecommerce giant?

Engineering Excellence

Ajit Prabhu’s engineering services firm helps industry stalwarts like Airbus, General Electric and BMW shore up their R&D

Greener Grass On The Udder Side

After trying to grow mushrooms and export mangoes, Sunil Reddy’s quest for fresh pastures led him to a sector with minimal private sector presence: Dairy

Beating The Staffing Blues

T Raghunandana’s company addresses the shortage of blue-collar workers in Indian firms by providing skilled personnel

A Dose Of Nutrition

On the back of a vertically integrated supply chain, and world-class R&D and manufacturing facilities, the firm is on its way to becoming a global leader in nutraceutical ingredients.

Road Paved With Success

From building roads in villages, the Udaipur-based firm has become one of India’s largest infrastructure companies

The Desi Spirit

Desmond Nazareth set up a craft distillery when he couldn’t find tequila in India. Now, he’s managed to distil traditional mahua to international standards

In The Online Arena

With more prize money, tournaments and acceptance, the competitive online gaming industry is coming into its own.

Directing Change

By challenging established hierarchies and practices, Anuradha Kapur has influenced India’s theatre landscape in no small way.

Bio Burst

Lou Jing’s drugmaker has gotten a big foothold in China and wants future breakthroughs to be global.

Mobile Lords

In Singapore, Fuzhou or wherever games are developed, IGG battles for its piece of the gaming action.

The Whiskey Revolutionary

Two decades ago Joe Magliocco revived Michter’s, a defunct rye and bourbon brand that traces its roots back to George Washington. With it, he changed the industry.

Powering Walmart

A tech centre in Bengaluru is building software and solutions for the US retail giant’s global network

Stepping up

Bionic Yantra’s exoskeleton provides a fall-safe method of rehabilitation for those unable to walk

From Mobile To Mobility

Rahul Sharma has put his Micromax days aside to launch India’s first electric motorbike, but it may well be another import-from-China gambit

Hakuna Matata

How three-year-old craft beer brand Simba plans to take on the giants

Holding The Purse Strings

Sequoia Capital India Advisors has written cheques of all sizes—from seed to growth—and never lost sight of an exciting startup. But liquidity and exit concerns remain

Porsche Macan

Rohit Paradkar

Two Brands, Two Roads

Two Ahmedabad-based companies set up in the 1940s have taken different paths and had contrasting fortunes. Havmor and Rasna are both entrenched in the minds of consumers, but while the former has now been acquired by a Korean confectionary company, the latter is striving to stay relevant through innovations and diversifications

Rasna: Juicing It Up

A soft drink concentrate named Jaffe, made by an Ahmedabad-based company set up in the 1940s, is today one of India’s most iconic brands: Rasna.

Up To The Challenge

Vijay Goel, who heads Motilal Oswal Private Wealth Management, has both an exciting and competitive market to operate in

Big Shoes To Fill

The challenge for the third generation of 70-year-old Metro Brands is clear-cut: To mimic the brick-and-mortar growth online

Mind On Target

Why Mindtree is an attractive prospect for those in the fray to buy out Café Coffee Day founder VG Siddhartha’s stake in the company

What's Your Gig?

Datamatics is trying to make the most of the booming gig economy through Wakency, its on-demand job platform for flexible work

A Legacy Beyond IT

Azim Premji’s work has created in Wipro a global corporation likely to endure. And his philanthropy efforts have become a model for other wealthy persons to emulate

Man Of Many Parts

Over the past two decades, Vivek Chaand Sehgal has used strategy and innovation to create a global auto ancillary behemoth. Now, as headwinds mount for the car industry, he is well prepared to battle future challenges

Smaller Levers

By decentralising decision-making, Sanjiv Mehta has made it easier for Hindustan Unilever to operate with the speed and nimbleness of his smaller rivals

Labour Of Love

By enabling seven lakh livelihoods in the informal sector, Gayathri Vasudevan is aiming to build a profitable, 1,000-crore innovative learning company in four years