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Unstoppable: Kuldip Singh Dhingra And The Rise Of Berger Paints

How do you go from being a shopkeeper to multi-billionaire in forty years?

Kuldip Singh Dhingra, the patriarch of the Dhingra family and the man credited with building Berger Paints, has remained a mystery. He is low-profile, eschews media and continues to operate from a small office in Delhi. In this candid and captivating biography Kuldip reveals his story for the first time.

Kuldip lost his father to an accident early in his life. He and his brothers, Sohan and Gurbachan, started as shopkeepers in Amritsar. From an annual turnover of Rs. 10 lakh in 1970, the Dhingras have built a business with an annual turnover of over Rs. 7,500 crore today. They are among the top thirty richest families in India with a net worth of over $ 4.5 billion.

This never-before-told story of Kuldip moves from Amritsar to Europe to Delhi where he became the largest exporter to the Soviet Union in the 1980s. In 1990 the Dhingras bought Berger.

From dealing with KGB to negotiating with the flamboyant Vijay Mallya; from being pushed to sell arms to challenging big businesses-Unstoppable narrates what a man can achieve if he pursues his dreams relentlessly.

About the Author

Sonu Bhasin is a family business historian, a business author and rditor-in-chief of The Families & Business magazine. She is also one of the early and senior women professionals in the industry. In her career of over thirty years she has been a TAS (Tata Administrative Service) Officer, Director ING Barings Private Banking, President Axis Bank, Group President YES Bank and COO Tata Capital. Currently she is on the board of some well-known domestic and multinational companies. The Inheritors, published by Penguin Random House, was her first book.

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