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In business, you try to minimise risk.

~Baba Kalyani

Topics: Business Risk Try You

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We manufacture automotive components including critical engine and axle parts for passenger cars, diesel engines and medium & heavy commercial vehicles. Till 1997, our focus was almost entirely on the domestic market with a relatively insignificant portion of revenues from exports.

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Topics: Almost Car Commercial Components Critical Diesel Domestic Engine Engines Entirely Exports Focus Heavy Including Insignificant Manufacture Market Medium Our Parts Passenger Portion Relatively Revenues Till Vehicles

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Import and substituting imports with domestic production are a big opportunity. With a devaluation of the rupee, imports get expensive, and for Indian manufacturers, this creates a huge opportunity.

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Topics: Big Creates Domestic Expensive Get Huge Import Imports Indian Manufacturers Opportunity Production

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We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.

~Baba Kalyani

Topics: Book Day Every Every Day Exports Fixed Forward Get Market More Our Rate See Spot Than Year

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We have done a lot of work on cost reduction, getting ourselves lean, reducing our breakeven, reducing our fixed cost and increasing exports. All of these factors help because our export basket is not just automotive but also includes industrial products, railways and others.

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Topics: Also Basket Because Cost Done Export Exports Factors Fixed Getting Help Increasing Industrial Just Lean Lot Others Our Ourselves Products Railways Reducing Reduction Work

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Our strategy should be based on indigenisation and import substitution. The government must provide opportunities for domestic companies to participate in sectors in which the country continues to depend on imports.

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Topics: Based Companies Country Depend Domestic Government Import Imports Must Opportunities Our Participate Provide Sectors Should Strategy Which

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From an operational perspective, exports challenge companies to design, develop, manufacture and supply products to discerning customers in global markets. This, in turn, motivates companies to scale up the value chain, which results in higher realisations.

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Topics: Chain Challenge Companies Customers Design Develop Discerning Exports Global Higher Manufacture Markets Motivates Operational Perspective Products Results Scale Supply Turn Up Value Which

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India is still considered a preferred destination for many multinationals to manufacture cost-competitive high-technology products for domestic consumption as well as for global demand.

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Topics: Considered Consumption Demand Destination Domestic Global India Manufacture Many Multinational Preferred Products Still Well

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I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago.

~Baba Kalyani

Topics: Boat Had Motor My Own Own Take Which Would Years Years Ago

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Bofors was a steelmaker that became a forgings company and then went on to build guns. Companies like Krupp and Thyssen were in steel and forgings before entering defence. There are similar examples in the U.K.; it is a natural progression.

~Baba Kalyani

Topics: Became Before Build Companies Company Defence Entering Examples Guns Like Natural Progression Similar Steel Then Were

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Businessman

Born: January 7th, 1949

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