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Letter to BS: Is Patanjali trying to become a 'jack of all trades'?

There is an important lesson for Patanjali from this Kimbho episode: Focus

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This refers to “Patanjali’s Kimbho app makes swift retreat” (May 31). After jolting the FMCG majors, Patanjali was eying the communication space and take the fight to WhatsApp, the instant messaging app. Now, since the app has been removed from the Google Play store, the question is, what is Patanjali trying to prove? Is it trying to become a “jack of all trades”? Managing a conglomerate is definitely not an easy task and this is what the company is heading towards by entering into unrelated diversified business segments. What started just as a herbal products company in 2009, by 2018,