Shri. Vishal Rajkumar Chordia - Director (Strategy And Marketing)
Vishal Rajkumar Chordia, a post graduate in Business Management from the prestigious Symbiosis Institute
of Management Studies, Pune, has had an extremely versatile career till date.
A Director – Strategy & Marketing at Pravin Masalewale, he is a third generation entrepreneur managing a
very dynamic business of approximately Rs. 900 crore in the foods category that proudly boasts of a
distribution network not just in India, but across the globe and which has received accolades and won
many awards, both at the domestic and the international level.
With strong business acumen and a keen eye for identifying opportunity, Vishal Chordia’s 17-year career
has seen him and his team not only grow his business from an organically built and modest family-run
spice processing unit to a professionally managed modern integrated spice products leader and a
powerhouse in the spices and food industry in India, but also expanded into creating more brands
including the very successful brand, SUHANA.
The company is now also exporting to 21 countries across 4 continents.
Some of his professional milestones are-
- 2000-01: Managed the complete redesign and reconfiguration of the company’s brands
and creation of three major brand structures. All brands are showing double digit compounded growth
over the last decade.
- 2002: Redesigned and implemented the manufacturing facilities in order to make the
‘lowest cost and most flexible’ plant in the industry.
- 2004-2008: Refining of the entire supply and value chain for the company including
the implementation of a modern net based ERP system.
- 2004-to date: Extension of breadth and depth of offerings: from 44 products in
1999, to over 150 products in 350 SKUs with huge growth in consumer reach/recall.
- 2013: International Business: In more than 20 countries, direct representation
- 2014: Suhana enrolls in TESCO (World’s 2nd Largest Retailer) for mainstream market.
With the success in his company, many awards and accolades have come his way.
Several prestigious quality awards won over the last decade:
- The Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Award, BIS 2007, 2009
- CII-EXIM Bank Award, Confederation of Indian Industry: 2008
- International Great Taste Award, Guild of Fine Foods, UK: 2010, 2011, 2012
Vishal has many other interests and vocations besides his company and many facets to his personality. He
is a passionate sportsman, having won many championships since an early age, he is an avid traveler,
interested in Indian culture, history and wisdom in food and nutrition, a food lover (but surely!) a
social activist, a keen educationalist, founder of selected non-profit organizations, gentle and
spiritual in his beliefs and day-to-day life and loves to be surrounded by his family and friends.
Towards these pursuits, he is involved in and leads the following initiatives:
- Chairman – Maharashtra Khadi & Village Industries Board, Mumbai.
- Member on Advisory Board of Symbiosis Foundation
- Member on Advisory Board of Maharashtra State Minimum Wages Act
- Founder Member and President, Lakshya. (An NPO, that promotes budding talent in the sports culture
in India)
- Awarded with prestigious “ICONS OF PUNE” in 2011.
- Khel Suhana – 25th Pravin Tennis Trophy Competition, across Maharashtra
- Publication of “Bikat Wat Yashachi” a biography of Most Respected Bhau – My Grandfather
- Trustee, Poona Hospital
- 2015: Symbiosis Krida Bhushan Award 2014 in recognition of dedicated contribution to promoting
sports.
- 2015: Generation Next Business Award -Career Mahotsav
Lastly, his life objective says it all: To be an unfailing proactive contributor to Indian society
through the creation of sustainable, efficient and ethical business processes, and be a prime mover in
establishing India as a Global Economic Power.