Procter & Gamble Hygiene and Health Care has announced a change of guard. Shantanu Khosla, Managing Director and CEO, Procter & Gamble (P&G) India has decided to move on from P&G as of June 30. Al Rajwani is to assume responsibilities for P&G India as Managing Director and CEO from July 1.

The company has not specified the reason for his exit or the appointment of his successor.

Khosla, a P&G veteran for 32 years, was at the helm of P&G India for 13 years spearheading its growth. A company statement said he was responsible for growing the India business over ten times. Similarly, Gillette India has informed the stock exchange that Shantanu Khosla will cease to be the Managing Director of the company with effect from June 30.

Khosla heads operations for three P&G companies -- Procter & Gamble Hygiene and Health Care Ltd, Gillette India Ltd, and Procter & Gamble Home Products.

The new incumbent, Al Rajwani, has 34 years of experience at P&G, and has worked across the US, Canada, China, Korea, and more recently the Arabian Peninsula and Pakistan (AP&P). Under his leadership, the AP&P business has grown in double digits over the last decade, the statement said, which has paved the way for P&G to be one of the leading fast-moving consumer goods companies in the Middle East.

Many accolades

The company has significant social responsibility programmes globally and in India.

Recently, P&G had teamed up with Majid al Futtaim Carrefour in the UAE to launch a Pampers-Unicef campaign in the UAE. The initiative is to continue till December, and aims to raise one million vaccines for the global campaign to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT).

For each product purchased, P&G and Majid al Futtaim Carrefour are to each donate a vaccine to the Unicef global campaign against MNT.

Now in its ninth year, the Unicef-Pampers partnership aims to eliminate MNT in developing countries by 2015. In a statement, Rajwani had noted that the company has been in partnership with Unicef for almost a decade. The campaign was first launched in the UK.

The company also won four product innovation awards at the recent Product of the Year Gulf 2015 awards.

P&G India has many similar campaigns. Its Program Shiksha is an integral part of the company's global philanthropy programme. Currently in its 11th year, Shiksha has built and supported over 330 schools across India in partnership with several non government organisations, that aims to impact the lives of 6,00,000 underprivileged children.

Another of its most recent campaigns in India was 'Thank You Mom', which presented P&G as the proud sponsor of moms.

Correction

The Shiksha programme has built and supported over 330 schools, and not 140 schools, as an earlier version said.

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