How business effects demography

UltraTech Cement acquired stake in India Cements (South based) owned by N Srinivasan.

N Srinivasan issued a statement:

No need to feel threatened, insecure: N Srinivsasan reassures India Cements employees.

Above statement will be applicable for five / ten years. Post that the changes will be visible.

Now we will look at the Board of India Cements (Source: as on March 31st, 2023) composition:

S N	Name	Indian
1	Sri N. Srinivasan Vice Chairman & Managing Director	South
2	Smt. Chitra Srinivasan	South
3	Smt. Rupa Gurunath Wholetime Director	South
4	Sri S. Balasubramanian Adityan	South
5	Sri Basavaraju (till 10.08.2023)	South
6	Sri S. Christopher Jebakumar (Nominee of IDBI Bank)*	South
7	Sri Krishna Prasad Nair (till 23.06.2023)	South
8	Smt. Lakshmi Aparna Sreekumar	South
9	Sri V. Manickam (w.e.f. 24.06.2023)	South
10	Smt. Nalini M Ratnam (Nominee of LIC)	South
11	Sri T.S. Raghupathy (till 10.08.2023)	South
12	Sri V. Ranganathan	South
13	Smt. Sandhya Rajan	South
14	Sri Sanjay Shantilal Patel	North
15	Sri Siddhartha Mohanty (Nominee of LIC)	East
16	Sri K. Skandan	South
17	Sri Y.Viswanatha Gowd*	South
	* - Assumption
	South Ratio (15/17)	88.24%

Many will argue, this introduction of South / North is unnecessary.

But a look at the Board of UltraTech Cement (Source: website 30 July 2024)will give you an answer.

S N	Name	Indian
1	Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla	North
2	Mrs. Rajashree Birla	North
3	Ms. Anita Ramachandran	South
4	Mrs. Alka Bharucha	North
5	Mr Sunil Duggal	North
6	Mr. K. C. Jhanwar	North
7	Mr. Anjani Kumar Agrawal	North
8	Mrs. Sukanya Kripalu	North
9	Mr. Vivek Agrawal	North
10	Mr. K. K. Maheshwari	North
	North Ratio (9/10)	90%

The change of ratio in the Board will be immediately seen.

Note: 

• India Cements uses Shri. / Smt. and UltraTech Cement uses Mr. / Mrs.
• India Cements have in Board from other regions of South. UltraTech Cement has majority from Marwari community.

In case of employees, the change will be felt in five / ten years.

Someone can do this working after five / ten years, if data is available. The change will be visible.

It takes time to percolate changes form Head to Toe.

Yes agreed all are Indians / Funds are important, but regional demographic distinctness must be retained. 

The divide of they versus us in case of north versus south will remain and continue.