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Mariwala: My businesses never saw falling sales or profits in 40+ years
“I think, you know, my entire career, I, you know, almost 40, 50 years, I don't think I have seen any year where the sales have fallen or the profits have fallen.”
What-if
Mariwala: Spinning out Marico avoided fatal family business dynamics
“If I had not Been able to convince my family. I would have been struggling looking at the family dynamics by then four or five. My cousins had joined business. There were conflicts in terms of allocation of resources, in terms of image building, the location o…”
Insight
Mariwala: Family businesses should limit each unit to one family member
“When you have multiple family members, I'm not saying that model will not succeed, but there are complications because, you know, you, the ambition level, the different the way of thinking is different. And the relationships are very complex. You're related at…”
Insight
Mariwala: Good governance must be established from day one, not delayed
“So it's something one has to build and one has to do that from day one rather than saying that I will look at governance from when I become big, you know, because if you don't tackle those issues, the culture of the organization will not change when you grow. …”
Insight
Mariwala: D2C eliminates the need for 30-crore TV ad budgets
“Earlier there were many entry barriers because of distribution. You needed all India distribution network, which is very expensive to maintain. You need a certain critical mass. You need sales staff to visit all the retailers. You need distributors. You don't …”
Insight
Mariwala: Companies Must Treat Former Employees as Brand Ambassadors
“If you look at whoever has stayed with us and gone out, we treat them as ambassadors, you know, because they can spread the word around about Mariko. If you're looking for a job in Mariko, and if you know one of our colleagues who was with us earlier, you'll c…”
Assertion Supported
Mariwala: Marico started with 25% equal ownership across four family branches
“The company got divided into three, four different subsidiaries and each of my cousins took over one part of the business, but in terms of ownership, it was all together only the same percentage that is 25% each considering the fact that my father had three br…”
Assertion Supported
Mariwala: Marico generates 100% of turnover from market-leading branded products
“And if you look at our brands in almost all our Branded products and a hundred percent of our turnover through branded. We are market leaders in that particular segment. So market leadership gives us pricing power is able to help us protect margins, you know.”
Assertion Supported
Mariwala: Only one or two in ten FMCG product launches succeed
“And in FMCG, you know, globally, one or two out of 10, ah, launches succeed.”
Assertion Supported
Mariwala: Switching Parachute to plastic boosted market share from 15% to 50%
“So that plastics launch over a period of five or seven years, just increase our market share from 15% to 50%, you know.”
Assertion Partly supported
Mariwala: Agricultural program adds 200 crore rupees annually to farmers' earnings
“We've been able to, by just better cropping practices, the farmer productivity has increased by 15%.
And if you convert that into rupees and annualized farmers in, in these states are earning 200 crores extra every year because of the health we've given them.”
Assertion Supported
Mariwala: Mariwala Health Initiative is India's largest mental health funder
“And we are the largest funders to other mental health organizations in the country.
We are, as of now today, we are supporting 26 organizations in the area of mental health.”
Insight
Mariwala: Whole-family products prevent household brand fragmentation
“Most of parachute and safola are bought for the family. It is not brought For an individual, for example, you may have a shampoo where some individual may like one set of shampoo, somebody else will like some other brand of shampoo. In this case, we were very …”
Disclosure
Mariwala: I will not return to operational leadership at Marico
“Clearly I don't want to go back. I don't think I'll ever go back because of two reasons. One is I think now the environment has changed. You need much more younger kind of a input from young managers. Number two, I chose a successor who has done well. So, you …”
