Cover StoryVol. 41 Issue No. 22
Birla 2.0: Reinventing the Empire
It is the latest, and in some ways the most telling, entry in a pattern that has been building for two years. Birla Opus, the group's paint brand under Grasim Industries, rolled out manufacturing capacity across six plants in barely two years, a build-out speed that took established players a decade to match. Indriya, a jewellery format, opened to compete with Tanishq and Kalyan in a business built on trust earned over generations, not capacity built in months. Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail demerged its lifestyle brands into a freshly listed entity, Aditya Birla Capital raised fresh equity to fund an insurance and lending push, and now UltraTech, the group's cash-generating cement flagship, has used its own balance sheet to fund a fifth simultaneous front.
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