Baba Kalyani
Baba Kalyani
Babasaheb Neelkanth Kalyani is an Indian businessman who served as the chairman and managing director of Bharat Forge, the flagship company of the Kalyani Group and the world's second-largest forgings manufacturer after ThyssenKrupp of Germany...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth7 January 1949
CountryIndia
Challenges give me a kick. The day I stop getting challenges, I would quit.
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The most important part of any acquisition is your ability to culturally integrate the people in the companies you acquire and your company.
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Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
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We are working with the power industry all over the world. We are meeting customers in aerospace and getting them to tour our plants.
I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago.
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I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.
In the U.S., we didn't have scale, and without scale, it's difficult to operate.
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India is the second biggest defence procurer in the world after the U.S.