MPW 2023: How Welspun MD & CEO Dipali Goenka plans to reach every home

MPW 2023: How Welspun MD & CEO Dipali Goenka plans to reach every home

Goenka, a repeat winner of BT’s The Most Powerful Women in Business, is betting big on the India story

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Dipali Goenka, 54, CEO & Managing Director, Welspun IndiaDipali Goenka, 54, CEO & Managing Director, Welspun India
Krishna Gopalan
  • Dec 12, 2023,
  • Updated Dec 12, 2023 7:26 PM IST

Dipali Goenka is really busy rebranding Welspun. A new logo was unveiled in July, and she can’t stop talking about the group’s presence in various businesses. “We are in roads and also other parts of infrastructure, plus there is the buyout of Sintex-BAPL (that deal concluded in March),” she says. As CEO & MD of the Rs 8,200-crore home textile manufacturer Welspun India, she is clear that India is the big story. “India is increasingly being preferred as the new supply chain partner,” says Goenka. She is making Welspun future-ready. “With tools like AI and data analytics, it is necessary for us to be ahead of the curve,” she says. Ask her what will make her happy about the company in five years, she says, “Har ghar se har dil tak (from every home to every heart).”

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Dipali Goenka is really busy rebranding Welspun. A new logo was unveiled in July, and she can’t stop talking about the group’s presence in various businesses. “We are in roads and also other parts of infrastructure, plus there is the buyout of Sintex-BAPL (that deal concluded in March),” she says. As CEO & MD of the Rs 8,200-crore home textile manufacturer Welspun India, she is clear that India is the big story. “India is increasingly being preferred as the new supply chain partner,” says Goenka. She is making Welspun future-ready. “With tools like AI and data analytics, it is necessary for us to be ahead of the curve,” she says. Ask her what will make her happy about the company in five years, she says, “Har ghar se har dil tak (from every home to every heart).”

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Krishna Gopalan

Based in Mumbai, Krishna Gopalan has reported across sectors that include telecommunications, cement, media and entertainment, private equity, consumer and metals. His current job profile entails writing on large conglomerates for which he interviews prominent CEOs. Krishna has a deep interest in business strategy and is intrigued by why organisations do what they do. His writing experience of over 25 years has had stints in The Financial Express, The Economic Times, Fortune India and Outlook Business. At Business Today, he contributes to the magazine, online and also appears on television.

Krishna reads widely on business, politics and Indian history. A Chevening scholar (batch of 2007), he spent three months in the UK that included an internship with the Financial Times in London. He is a published author with his first book, The Making of Don, based on the 1978 Hindi film starring Amitabh Bachchan, hitting the stands in 2013. Academically, he is a postgraduate in Economics from the University of Madras and holds an MBA from NMIMS, Mumbai.

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