Vora Soaps and the ascent of Nisa Godrej

38-year-old's rise to top is culmination of a significant restructuring in group's holding structure

Some 37 years after he first became its director, Adi B Godrej resigned from the board of a little-known company called Vora Soaps on March 15. A day earlier, the 75-year-old doyen’s daughters Tanya Dubash and Nisaba Godrej, were inducted into Vora Soaps as additional directors. Their aunt and Adi’s cousin, Smitha V Crishna, also became a director of Vora Soaps around the same time.

Apart from Adi and Crishna, the third generation of the 120-year-old conglomerate, which has interests ranging from soaps and locks to real estate and agriculture, consists of Crishna’s brother Jamshyd N Godrej, who heads the