Doubling India business in 7-10 years no-brainer for Unilever: CEO Polman

Polman said India can do better trade, attract investments from global firms, including HUL, with GST rollout

Paul Polman, who runs $176-billion Unilever, the world’s fourth-largest consumer goods firm, praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his ambition to upscale India’s economic growth and said India has the potential of becoming the biggest market for the company.

“I am not giving a guidance but the assumption that we double (in India) in the next 10 years or seven-eight years is a no-brainer. Because US is not going to double,” Polman told The Economic Times.
 

Here are key things the Unilever CEO said on business in India:

India in charge of its own destiny

Polman said that India could