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Sushmita Bose BUSINESS STANDARD
Last Updated : Jan 28 2013 | 1:27 AM IST
 Did anyone say value additions were a big plus? Going by the case study of Boroplus Antiseptic Cream from the Rs 200-odd crore Kolkata-based Emami group of companies, it would certainly seem so. It is a 20-year-old brand that stormed into the secure bastion held by Boroline, yet another Kolkata-based brand from G D Pharmaceuticals, since 1929.

 Today, according to ORG-Marg, in the Rs 150-crore antiseptic cream market, Boroplus is the national market leader with a 56 per cent stranglehold. (In fact, it increased its share from 50 to 56 per cent in the fiscal 2001-2002

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First Published: Jan 21 2003 | 12:00 AM IST

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