Avenue Supermarts CEO: Neville Noronha quits Avenue Supermarts, Unilever’s Anshul Asawa to be new CEO
“After greater than twenty years of outstanding management and an excellent tenure on the helm of the enterprise, Neville has chosen to not lengthen his contract. The Board of Administrators honours his resolution and expresses profound gratitude for his extraordinary contribution to the corporate,” Avenue Supermarts introduced in a press release right this moment.
The corporate’s board has appointed Anshul Asawa because the CEO Designate, efficient March fifteenth, 2025.
Noronha, who owned round 1.95% stake within the firm on the finish of the September quarter, is one among India’s richest CEOs as his stake within the firm owned by Radhakishan Damani is value about Rs 4,700 crore.
He had joined DMart in January 2004 and shepherded the corporate from its early years to its present place as one of many largest grocery store chains of the nation.”An indicator of Neville’s management is his conviction that whereas enterprise technique is advanced out of a posh metrics of concepts and competing claims, competent execution requires that it’s articulated in easy and exact phrases, guaranteeing they’re simple to know and everybody throughout all ranges within the firm is ready to perceive and execute it,” the corporate mentioned.Underneath his stewardship, DMart has reached important milestones, together with surpassing the Rs 50,000 crore annual turnover mark and rising from 5 shops, when Noronha joined the corporate, to greater than 380 shops now.
“I wish to place on file my appreciation of Neville’s imaginative and prescient and onerous work in constructing the corporate to this scale right this moment. He has demonstrated distinctive management abilities and dedication in his remarkably profitable tenure. A frontrunner who noticed the massive image however by no means misplaced the attention for element, Neville made certain that progress and income weren’t ends in themselves, relatively they have been the by merchandise of effectivity, equity and buyer worth,” Avenue Supermarts Chairman CB Bhave mentioned.
Whereas noting that Dmart is a enterprise mannequin that has a multidecadal runway for progress, Noronha mentioned if we keep the course of simplicity, environment friendly prices, comfortable workers, deep worth to prospects and most significantly not doing the rest, we’ll at all times stay related for a very long time to return.
He mentioned he’ll guarantee a easy transition until his tenure ends and out there even after that for any counsel the corporate might have on occasion.
Who might be DMart’s new CEO?
IIT Roorkee and IIM Lucknow alumnus Anshul Asawa, who joins the corporate as CEO Designate from March 15, 2025, is predicted to take over because the MD and CEO on the first of February, 2026, upon the completion of Neville’s time period in that place.
Asawa has a 30-year lengthy stint at Unilever the place he had management roles overseeing the expansion of product classes and growing impactful capabilities in India, Asia, and Europe.
He at present serves as Nation Head of Unilever in Thailand and Basic Supervisor for the House Care enterprise unit in Better Asia.
Throughout his tenure of over 15 years in India, Anshul held key management positions in gross sales, advertising and marketing and distribution.
He led the digitisation efforts at HUL and was additionally on the forefront of main product improvements for homecare
classes and gross sales & distribution transformations in city and rural markets inside India. He’s identified for his consumer-centricity, business self-discipline, and execution focus.
