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    The Employee’s CEO

    Dec 12, 2019 5 minutes
    BY SUMANT BANERJI
    PHOTOGRAPH BY YASIR IQBAL
    We have tried to be closer to consumers. Anything that goes into the electrical socket, we want to play a part in that

    After the demise of Qimat Rai Gupta, the Founder and Chairman of Havells in November 2014, his son Anil Rai Gupta could sense the nervousness among employees that follows any top management change within a company. The younger son of the patriarch, ARG — as he is referred to within the 71-year-old firm — was the only one from the family to have joined the business. He had spent more than two decades managing the company with his father but knew it was crunch time for him as a professional.

    “The big concern was, what will happen now? How will the organisation change? I made it a point

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