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how hul got its mojo back

How HUL got its mojo back

Nitin Paranjpe and Harish Manwani
Updated : Jul 6, 2011

How Nitin Paranjpe and Harish Manwani forced change at a bruised Hindustan Unilever

The Indian arm of Unilever, under the leadership of Harish Manwani and Nitin Paranjpe, seems to have shed its margin obsession now. In fact, over the past five quarters, the company has successfully driven its volume sales up at the cost of profit margins, or the ratio of profit to revenues.

Updated : May 27, 2011

From Manwani to Baloo Bhegde

As HUL makes a spirited push to expand and strengthen its reach in the hinterland, it has roped Bhegde in, too. He is a Shaktimaan, roped in for the next big leap the Anglo-Dutch multinational wants to make in India: distribute in villages with less than 2,000 people.Click here for the slideshow