Ravi Kant Jaipuria, Chairman of RJ Corp is responsible for 1/6th of the world guzzling Pepsi. His company Varun Beverages is PepsiCo’s best bottler in the world. The markets love the company whose stock has surged by 300% in two years. But there’s much more to Jaipuria’s nearly $3 billion business empire: QSRs, tea parlours, stem cells and schools. In a candid chat with host Ratna Bhushan on The Morning Brief, Jaipuria talks about how he keeps the fizz in his business intact after so many years. He also shares international expansion plans, acquisition ambitions, impact of climate change on his operations, Reliance as a rival and never before insights on succession.
New Delhi [India], March 9 (ANI/PNN): Fashion Entrepreneur Fund, the new funding platform created by Sanjay Nigam is ready to completely revolutionize the fashion industry. Worth more than Rs 200 Crore, the venture will be investing more than Rs 20 Crore in fashion based startups, thus helping industry members and fashion entrepreneurs to turn their dreams into a reality. Apart from Nigam, who himself has been in the industry for more than 2 decades and has businesses across different verticals, the venture is also backed by world renowned business moguls like Ravi Jaipuria, Chairman of RJ Corp, Naveen Jindal, Chairman of Jindal Steel and Power, Robin Raina, CEO of Ebix Inc., Vagish Pathak, Chairperson of India Fashion Awards and Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council, and so on. Fashion Entrepreneur Fund would be Asia's biggest fashion grant and India's only fashion based funding platform, anyone and everyone from the Indian fashion fraternity can apply, be it a stylist,