manvider singh banga             

                               Manvinder Singh Banga, commonly known as “VINDI” is the former CEO of  Hindustan Lever limited,India’s largest consumers products company and one of its most respected companies. He was born in  October 31, 1954 in Shimla to Jaswant and Harbhajan Singh Banga. He completed his schooling in Delhi public school. Banga did his B.E degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Delhi and graduated with a gold medal in 1975. Later he got his Management Degree with another gold medal, from IIM-A , Ahmedabad. Banga joined Hindustan Lever as a management trainee after leaving IIM-A, and got three out-of-turn promotions which catapulted to top spot in the Hindustan Lever Board at a young  age of 41.

               Banga is best known for his sharp intellect, intuition and analytical ability. From 1995 to 1998, he was the director for Detergents, Hindustan Lever, as well as category leader for Soaps and Detergents for Unilever’s Central Asia and Middle East Region. Banga’s  clinical thinking was evident in 1997 when he and his team struggled with the problem of upgrading the Surf franchise. The result was an outstanding success, and International Surf Excel went on to ward off rival Procter & Gamble’s threat (Ariel) in the laundry detergent business. Banga was senior vice president of Hair and Oral Care from 1998 to 2000. Banga moved to London for a 16 month stint at Unilever UK, to learn about the latest management trends and to familiarize himself with the various parts of the global Lever empire. Banga was made non-executive chairman of HLL and at the same time appointed as business group president of Unilever’s $6 billion Asia HPC business. All this was due to the reorganization of Unilever’s organizational structure into 2 seperate divisions namely Foods and Home & Personal Care (HPC).

                           In May 2005, he was elevated to the board of unilever as Head of the Foods business, with 57 % of global revenue. And recently in April 2008, he was given additional responsibility for the global Home & Personal Care (HPC) business.

                               

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