Jamshyd Godrej
Jamshyd Godrej
Jamshyd Naoroji Godrej is an Indian industrialist and member of the Godrej family, currently serving as managing director and chairman of Godrej & Boyce, the family's consumer durables holding company. He is the cousin of Godrej Group chairman Adi Godrej and Godrej Agrovet chairman Nadir Godrej...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryIndia
chain clients difficult easier process supply time
How do you actually green the supply chain is a challenge. The easier part is to do what we do; the difficult part is to get all your clients to long process will take time.
chain demand hit increasing overall projects services side supply sustain
Infrastructure projects create a lot of demand for material, services and manpower. It is a chain reaction; if the infrastructure growth slows down, it will hit overall demand. The supply side has to keep increasing to sustain growth.
economy looked sector
I don't think manufacturing should be looked at independently. It is part of the economy. So, when the economy does well, and when there is investment, the sector does well.
discharge treated zero
Our CII building in Hyderabad has zero discharge of water. Every drop of water is treated and reused.
government taxation
Government should concentrate on building up infrastructure and skill development. Simplification of taxation is another important area.
clubbing increase large price renewable
Clubbing energy efficiency with renewable energy will give us the much-needed window to incubate the renewable energy sector, particularly large solar, without having to increase the price of electricity.
design element environmental follow good green meet products second setting targets
As a group, we want to follow good and green strategy. Setting targets is one element of that. The second part is to design products which meet environmental goals.
committed improving life society towards
Godrej is committed towards improving quality of life in society.
develop government help leverage links money products result society spends useful
The links have to be between universities, R&D institutes, and industry. If these linkages are in place, it will result in products that are useful for society. The government has to leverage the money it spends on R&D to help develop new products useful for industry.
attract early experience few fund investors provide risky
Our experience is that most entrepreneurs are able to attract debt, even for risky and early stage investments. There are investors who provide debt, but very few who fund through equity.
certain country grows pot term underlying
Sometimes, we use the term 'growth' as a number and sometimes as an abstraction, but the underlying implication is always that, if the country grows at a certain rate, at the end there will be a pot of gold for everyone.
besides cities fuel huge large opportunity provides scope tremendous
Besides infrastructure, there is a huge opportunity in housing and urbanisation of cities - not only building new ones, but also renewing the infrastructure of old cities to make them more livable. This provides tremendous scope for large investments to fuel growth.
item thousands
In a company, you buy thousands of things. Every item you buy has its own footprint.
energy industry looks lowering material research
Industry looks at research and development for energy efficiency, lowering material costs, so on and so forth.