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Wednesday 1 June 2011

Bata India Plans for rapid expension

After turning around an ageing large that Bata India was when he took it over six years ago, Marcelo Villagran has started the second a part of his unenviable mission - to rejuvenate the 80-year-old shoe complete to create the 20-25 olds, and even the kids, fall for it. "If the last 5 years were all concerning consolidation, following 5 years are all concerning enlargement," says the Bata India MD and CEO, who reworked the corporate from a degree of bankruptcy when he took over six years ago to 1 of the foremost profitable operations of the Swiss multinational globally.

Bata can introduce virtually four styles on a daily basis, open 70-100 stores of a minimum of 5,000 sq ft each year, and push its on-line sales to shed its image as a low-cost practical footwear complete that appeals to the 40-plus age cluster. It's an uphill task for a complete known for its sandals and entry-level shoes. But going by how Villagran has modified the corporate since taking it over in early 2005, Bata has all the rights to believe during a rival's tagline: not possible is nothing. A soft-spoken astute Spanish in his late 60s, Villagran closed many unviable stores and spawned them into large-format shops, overhauled product portfolio with the assistance of Bata's international style centre and refined producing and sourcing ways, to assist Bata start up of 3 years of continuous losses that peaked at sixty two crore in 2004 and steadily grow since then. In 2010, its internet profit rose forty second year-on-year to ninety five crore. The company scrip too bounced from 31-35 in 2002 to 460.55 on the Bombay Stock Exchange at Friday's closing. Villagran, who has spent virtually four decades in Bata, led this transformation from the front. he's sometimes the primary to enter workplace and therefore the last to go away. And he travels extensively round the country to implement his agenda. "Turnaround is simply a monetary word. what's additional vital is how the organisation has been utterly able to reinvent itself," he says.

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