Unilever CEO on an untold India story
Unilever global chief executive Alan Jope said India is a powerhouse and that the company had strong growth in the country despite a difficult environment to reach annual revenues of almost 6 billion euros."We saw India with tremendous volume growth and value growth in not easy circumstances. And it''s already closing in on 6 billion euros of revenue for the company, highly, highly profitable," Jope said during Barclays Global Consumer Staples Conference. "An untold story is the amount of digital innovation that''s happening in India, how we run our supply chain, route to market innovation, digital innovation, some of the marketing programmes that we are doing there and I hope that what India will be, as it will be a beacon of digital innovation as well as being a powerhouse commercially."Over the past few years, Hindustan Unilever has innovated across value chains to enable greater agility, flexibility and efficiency. For instance, it has set up three nano factories that allow them to produce in batches of kilograms rather than tonnes and help them with faster product rollouts.
Unilever CEO on an untold India story
Unilever global chief executive Alan Jope said India is a powerhouse and that the company had strong growth in the country despite a difficult environment to reach annual revenues of almost 6 billion euros."We saw India with tremendous volume growth and value growth in not easy circumstances. And it''s already closing in on 6 billion euros of revenue for the company, highly, highly profitable," Jope said during Barclays Global Consumer Staples Conference. "An untold story is the amount of digital innovation that''s happening in India, how we run our supply chain, route to market innovation, digital innovation, some of the marketing programmes that we are doing there and I hope that what India will be, as it will be a beacon of digital innovation as well as being a powerhouse commercially."Over the past few years, Hindustan Unilever has innovated across value chains to enable greater agility, flexibility and efficiency. For instance, it has set up three nano factories that allow them to produce in batches of kilograms rather than tonnes and help them with faster product rollouts.