India: Saint-Gobain, which is celebrating its 350th anniversary, has its sights set firmly on the future and, in particular, in India. It entered India in 1996 and now has 20 manufacturing plants and about 4900 employees there.
Saint-Gobain's two ambitions for its businesses in India are to shape the future of and to become the reference for sustainable habitat and to more than double its business in India and to exceed sales of US$1.61bn by 2019.
"India has been an important market and investment destination for Saint-Gobain and, going forward, will be even more so," said Anand Mahajan, Saint-Gobain's general delegate for India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
