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driven company with our own include women in all areas of its society. We need to give people a
norms of financial prudence and business, recruiting, developing start to forge their futures.”
discipline. So, one of our particular and training them to succeed.
challenges is finding experienced Balram remembers his own start,
people within GAVL to look after “I strongly believe that 50% of the when GAVL was a small company
these new businesses and blend world’s talents and capabilities rest in animal feed and he was working
them into our working culture.” with women. Nobody can achieve in factories and sales. He credits all
their targets if they do not hire that experience with equipping him
“Every two years, we conduct women in greater numbers. We with the confidence he needs today
an engagement survey of our have started taking women in sales, to run a business.
employees and our last survey administration and production in
score was 81% satisfaction, which our plants.” “That’s where the rubber hits
is much higher than the Indian “ the road,” he says. “As people
average. That is important to us Nobody can achieve rise through the ranks their
because engaged employees mean their targets if they do decision-making becomes sharper.
they see this as a place, where they It’s because they have a rich
would like to work and contribute. not hire women in greater understanding of the consumer,
It is heartening to know that we’re numbers. the market and the environment
doing well on this metric because “ in which they’re working. All
that means the company has a good “Diversity is an important metric that grassroots training definitely
future.” for us and not just with women. helped me.”
We want to include people with
A vital lure GAVL dangles to different backgrounds and those
attract good employees is its who are physically challenged
commitment to diversity ratios. as well. This is close to our heart
The company boasts targets to and one way we can give back to

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