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Born in 1953, Mr. Ashok Jaipuria is widely known as a visionary entrepreneur, an outstanding humanitarian, and a philanthropist, Jaipuria is the promoter, chairman and managing director of Cosmo First Limited. He is best known as the pioneer BOPP Films manufacturing in India.
Mr. Jaipuria received the Outstanding Achievement Award in 2013 at the second Speciality Films & Flexible Packaging Conference, conferred by the Chemicals & Petrochemicals Manufacturers Association (CPMA), Mumbai. He was also named in Best under a Billion, Forbes Global 200 Best Small Companies for 2003 by the Forbes Magazine. He was also conferred with the Udyog Ratna Award by the Government of Himachal Pradesh.
Established in 1981, Cosmo Films (A Business of Cosmo First Limited) today is a global leader in speciality films for packaging, lamination and labeling applications. Our offerings include biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) films, cast polypropylene (CPP) films and biaxially oriented polyethylene terephthalate (BOPET) films.
With manufacturing units in India, Cosmo has a BOPP manufacturing capacity of 1,96,000 TPA and CPP manufacturing capacity of 30,000 TPA and a BOPET capacity of 30,000 TPA with a sales turnover of around USD 375 million in FY 2022-2023. With offices spread across all metro cities in India, the USA, Korea, Europe and Tokyo, Japan. The company exports its products to over 100+ countries across the globe. The company also has multiple patents across India and is globally known as one of the global leaders in speciality films. Cosmo Films is also the largest BOPP film exporter from India and the world’s largest manufacturer of thermal lamination films. Over the years, the company has also forayed into the technical film, rigid packaging, synthetic paper, and premium window film businesses.
Mr. Pankaj Poddar is the Group CEO at Cosmo First Ltd, where he leads the company's diverse business units, including Cosmo Films, Cosmo Speciality Chemicals, Cosmo Plastech, Cosmo Consumer, Zigly and Cosmo Ferrites. He also serves as the Director for Cosmo Speciality Chemicals Private Ltd, Cosmo Speciality Polymers Private Ltd and Cosmo Global.
With a career spanning over 30 years, Mr. Poddar is widely recognized as a turnaround specialist and a quick decision-maker, with strengths in commercials, analytics, negotiation, team engagement & strategy building. His journey with Cosmo began in 2011 as the Chief Financial Officer, overseeing financial operations both for India & the International Subsidiaries. He later assumed the role of President - India Operations, and was elevated to the CEO in 2013, playing a pivotal role in laying down the foundation for the emergence of the new business verticals.
Under his leadership, Cosmo has experienced significant transformation and growth, He is a regular speaker at various packaging industry associations such as Organization of Plastic Processors of India, IFCA, and Plastic India.
His leadership excellence has been recognized by various external forums, including:
'People's CEO' award at the NIPM National HR Excellence Award Ceremony (2018)
'Young Business Leader Award' at the Dare to Dream Awards held by Zee Business in collaboration with SAP (2018)
"Platinum Award" for "CEO of HR" by HRAI (2019)
Prior to joining Cosmo, Mr. Poddar held senior financial leadership roles at several prominent global organizations.
To strengthen our global leadership in specialty films by achieving a CAGR of 10% by 2030 through customer centric innovative and sustainable solutions.
To deliver lasting value for all our stakeholders through innovation, excellence, collaboration, integrity & customer-centricity.
People first, foremost, and above all.
Champion innovation to stay a step ahead.
Continue to build Trust with all our stakeholders
Thrive together and win as a team.
Act with integrity, no matter what.