Oxford college of business management

Woman entrepreneursBy---- Asish, Bharat, Ashita, Sindhu & Stitapragnya Khadanga

Vinitha Bali

EARLY LIFE

Vinitha was born in Bangalore 1955

MANTRA FOR LIFE : - LOOKING AT WORK AS LIFE AND VICE VERSA

Occupation

CEO Britannia Industries Ltd.

She is known as the FMCG veteran with more than 25 years of

experience

She is the sister of Vivek Bali, Managing Director P&G India.

EDUCATION

In 1984 she received a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from Lady Shri

Ram college for Women at the University of Delhi.

She then earned an MBA from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management

Studies

She received a scholarship to Michigan State University in the United

States and served as an intern at United Nations headquarters in New

York.

CAREER Vinita started her career with Voltas in India in 1977

In 1980, she joined Cadbury India as Brand Manager and went on to working in

the UK, Nigeria and South Africa, where she also served on Cadbury Boards.

In 1994, she moved to the Coca-Cola Company in the USA as the world wide

Marketing Director of Coca-Cola.

In Coca-Cola, she also served as President of the South Latin Division and Head

of Strategy, with responsibility for the company's worldwide business strategy

and new initiatives.

Currently, Vinita is the Managing Director of Britannia Industries Limited, India.

She is also on the Boards of Britannia New Zealand Foods Limited, Go Airlines

(India) Private Limited, Titan Industries Limited, Gujarat Glass Ltd., Britannia

New Zealand Holdings Private Limited, Mauritius, Britannia & Associates

(Mauritius) Private Limited and Britannia & Associates (Dubai) Company

Limited

Key Role at Britannia:

Her foremost challenge was to manage the politics and the

friction in the Britannia board.

Expanding Britannia's business will be another challenge. The

sector was littered with more casualties than the morgue.

Also, she had to rejuvenate the Britannia team, which has seen

some of its top people move on to greener pastures.

Vinita Bali is the Managing Director of Britannia Industries Limited, one of

India’s premier Food Companies with revenue in excess of USD 750MM.

In the four years that Vinita has been at the helm of Britannia, the

Company has delivered its highest ever growth rate of 22% leading other

consumer goods companies in India.

Under her direction, Britannia's revenue tripled to $841 million

Vinita has steered Britannia on the Health and Nutrition course focusing

on Micro-nutrient Fortified products as well as driving advocacy and

awareness of nutrition.

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES

Board Member at Marico Industries, Mumbai - (July 21,2004 to

November 21, 2004).

Board member of non-profit organization American Foundation for the

Blind, New York.

Board member of non-profit organization Centre For Strategic &

International Studies, Washington.

COMPANIES

AWARDS Bali was awarded the "Business Woman of the Year" Award at the 2009

Economic Times Awards. She won a Corporate Social Responsibility Award for her work with the

foundation In 2011 Forbes named her on its list of "Asia's 50 Power

Businesswomen"

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