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The top management team at Universal is forward looking, with willingness to change. The management consists of qualified and professional people, including MBA's, B.Sc (Ag)'s, M.Com's & CA's with a portfolio matching their qualification. There is great emphasis on continuous improvement, across areas such as market development, systems improvisation and HR..
P. Vijaynataraj, Managing Partner, is a B.Com graduate with over four decades of experience in various businesses. He was instrumental in consolidating and expanding business operations. He is the State level Vice-President of TamilNadu Agro Input Traders Association and President of Coimbatore District Agro Input Traders Association.
V. Rajesh, son of P. Vijaynataraj, and a management graduate from a premier institute, is leading the group's foray into the 21st century. Under him, the business is being moulded to amalgamate the strengths of a traditional family business with that of a professional outfit. This culture mix is being instilled at a time when it has assumed strategic importance for success in the Indian context.
The simple philosophy of
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"quality in thought, quality in action and quality in product"
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has yielded a sustained growth to Universal.
The management believes in a laissez faire system where day to day decisions are decentralised. This makes the firm agile, and quick to adapt to every changing market conditions.
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| Growth needs to be controlled to sustain itself. Universal believes in creating and maintaining a system driven organization with clear procedures in place. |
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Computerisation of accounts started in 1985 |
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Ongoing improvisations to production, process and HR development |
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State of the art ERP package being implemented in 2005 |
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System driven management monitors various decentralized processes like dealer appointment, expense budgeting, inventory control, logistics management and individual assessment of branches as a profit centre. |
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"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
Charles Darwin
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