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Enterprise / Cover Stories MAGAZINE | OCT 26, 2013 —Siraj Chaudhry, chairman, Cargill India "Our strategy has really been about building access before assets. Building assets here also means buying access" CARGILL INDIA Kneading A Growth Story Even as its institutional business brings in bread and butter, Cargill India is enlarging its consumer business to get its fair share of jam RAJESH PADMASHALI Siraj Chaudhry was on his honeymoon in Pachmarhi, Madhya Pradesh, in November 1992 when the 25-year-old came across a day-old newspaper in the hotel lobby. The ITC executive glanced through it, saw an ad for a commercial manager of a proposed citric acid plant in Uttar Pradesh and told his new bride, “That’s the next company I am going to work for.” The company was Cargill, the-then 127-year-old agribusiness giant Chaudhry had heard much about and been impressed by. She wasn’t as enthusiastic — ITC had a stellar reputation while the Ameri...