Sudhir Dhingra, Owner of Orient Craft Ltd., shares insights from his nearly five decades in the garment industry, lessons learned, his future plans and his....
Sudhir Dhingra: Back From the Brink
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Sudhir Dhingra, Chairman and managing director of Orient Craft
Name: Sudhir Dhingra
Profile: Chairman and managing director of apparel maker Orient Craft
He Says : “See where customers are headed next, not where they are today.
You cannot become the business. You need to step aside and observe deeply”
Parents seldom take into cognisance what their children really want. They just want [you to do] what they want!” It is with this observation that Sudhir Dhingra, chairman and managing director of apparel maker Orient Craft, starts telling me his story.
Meet Sudhir Dhingra, chairman and managing director of Orient Craft, India's leading garment export house.
“I was brought up in a fairly affluent family of educated farmers. My father was a lawyer; he had a good practice and lived quite well in Chandigarh. He wanted me to join the bar. But, for some reason, I am not inclined towards anything to do with paper.
If my life depended on reading a hundred pages a day for a living, I