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Greaves Cotton: Getting Ready for the Future

New CEO Parag Satpute inherits 165 years of engineering and a mandate to multiply it.

By Shahkar Abidi, Ketan Thakkar & Prerna Lidhoo calendar 22 Apr 2026 Views icon19238 Views Share - Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to LinkedIn Share to Whatsapp
Greaves Cotton: Getting Ready for the Future

Parag Satpute, MD & Group CEO of 165 year old Greaves Cotton likes to answer a large question by first shrinking it, as if the only honest way to talk about a transformation is to begin with the facts that refuse to budge. When asked the first obvious question: Why he joined Greaves Cotton and why he left Amsterdam for Mumbai, he doesn’t reach for a slogan. 

Greaves Cotton appoints Parag Satpute as MD and Group CEO

He reaches, instead, for a contrast: in Western Europe and North America where he had been running his previous job responsibilities, the talk was about consolidation and cost cutting; in India, ...

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