The Unusual Billionaires

What makes a company truly outstanding?What is the secret sauce of delivering successful results year-on-year?What is common to Asian Paints HDFC Bank Marico Axis Bank Hindustan Unilever and Berger Paints?They are Unusual Companies built by Unusual Billionaires. The Unusual Billionaires tells the story of eight truly outstanding companies which delivered 10 per cent revenue growth over the last ten years and 15 per cent return on capital employed. In simple words these companies defeated 5000 other public listed companies to deliver high growth while maintaining profitability year-on-year for the last decade.How did these companies do it? Why couldnt this be reciprocated by other companies? What are they doing differently? Saurabh Mukherjea bestselling author of Gurus of Chaos delivers an outstanding book with lessons to learn from these eight businesses. Mukherjea tells you why focusing on the core business could save a companys life or how giving control to top management could be a boon. Packed with these learnings are riveting corporate stories of how Hindustan Unilever made aggressive bids to buy Mariwalas business but had to sell it to the same company in a few years or how Page Industries found an exciting way to stop unionization at their manufacturing units. It also includes the turnaround of Axis Bank and the boardroom coup that led to its chairmans downfall and how Vijay Mallya lost control of Asian Paints to the Dhingra Brothers. These and many more makes this book a mandatory read for all corporate leaders to simulate and implement. About the Author Saurabh Mukherjea is the CEO of institutional equities at Ambit Capital an Indian investment bank. In 2014 and 2015 he was rated as the leading equity strategist in India by the Asiamoney polls. Mukherjea has spent most of the past decade trying to construct and implement systematic methods for analysing Indian companies in the midst of the chaos that surrounds the Indian stock market. A London School of Economics alumnus Mukherjea is also a CFA charter holder. He lives in Mumbai with his wife and two children.