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'Berger to guard market share even if profit hurt'
Mint Hyderabad
|November 10, 2025
CEO Roy admits the sector had never seen a disruptor like Birla Opus
Berger Paints CEO Abhijit Roy said Birla Opus has "woken everyone up, shaken everyone up- and everyone is running faster. It's a good thing to have happened to the industry."
Eighteen months after Birla Opus stormed into the paints market, Berger Paints India Ltd is bracing for a full-blown colour war.
It will prioritise market share over profitability if competitive pressures intensify, said Abhijit Roy, managing director and chief executive officer, in an interview with Mint.
"Ideally, we would love to grow both profit and sales," Roy said. "But if push comes to shove, we will prefer to have our market share protected even if a little bit of profit dilution happens. Once your market share is protected, profits can always come back sooner or later," he said, adding that it's not something that the paint maker is worried about.
This story is from the November 10, 2025 edition of Mint Hyderabad.
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