库马尔·曼格拉姆·比尔拉表示，多重全球危机使其金属到零售帝国的投资决策变得更艰难，该帝国超过三分之一的业务来自海外。
Kumar Mangalam Birla said multiple global crises have made investment decisions tougher for his metals-to-retail empire that generates over a third of its business overseas.
“要么成长，要么衰落；你无法保持平衡状态，” 阿迪蒂亚·比拉集团主席在周二于新德里举行的彭博新经济论坛上表示。“我们一直在对现有业务和新业务进行投资，因为你不能停止成长。” 全球企业面临着一个充满波动的环境，其特点是美国不可预测的关税和贸易政策、中东战争，以及主要经济体和行业需求的变化。阿迪蒂亚·比拉集团在41个国家开展业务，截至3月止的财年收入达720亿美元。截至6月，其42%的销售额来自印度以外地区。
“You either grow or you go down; you can’t stay in a state of equilibrium,” the chairman of the Aditya Birla Group said at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in New Delhi Tuesday. “We’ve been constantly investing as well in our existing and in new businesses because you you can’t stop growing.”Global businesses face a volatile environment marked by unpredictable US tariff and trade policies, the Middle East war, as well as shifting demand across major economies and sectors. The Aditya Birla Group operates across 41 countries and generated $72 billion in revenue in the year ended March. As of June, it derived 42% of its sales from outside India.
总部位于孟买的这一 conglomerate 包括金属公司 Hindalco Industries Ltd.、水泥制造商 UltraTech Cement Ltd.、非银行贷款机构 Aditya Birla Capital Ltd.以及零售商 Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd. 该集团还通过在 Birla Opus 扩展涂料业务、通过 Birla Pivot 市场拓展建筑材料业务，以及在 Novel Jewels 旗下的 Indriya 拓展零售珠宝业务来挑战现有企业。该集团还以18亿美元收购了壳牌公司（Shell Plc）的可再生能源资产，并推出了 Ultravolt 电缆品牌。
The Mumbai-based conglomerate’s businesses include metals firm Hindalco Industries Ltd., cement maker UltraTech Cement Ltd., non-bank lender Aditya Birla Capital Ltd. and retailer Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd. It is also challenging incumbents by expanding into paints with Birla Opus, building materials via the Birla Pivot marketplace and retail jewelry with Indriya under Novel Jewels. The group also acquired Shell Plc’s renewable energy assets for $1.8 billion and launched the Ultravolt brand of electric cables.
“由于我们是一个全球组织，当我在报纸上读到重大全球事件时，我可以确定它会在某处影响我们，” 比尔拉说。
“Because we are a global organization, when I read about a significant global event in the newspapers, I can be sure that it will impact us somewhere,” Birla said.
除了地缘政治，人工智能也带来了新挑战，因为多家企业无法采用统一策略来采用该技术，比尔拉如此表示。
Besides geopolitics, artificial intelligence poses a new challenge as multiple businesses can’t follow a uniform strategy to adopt the technology, according to Birla.
该 conglomerate 将在人工智能方面的投资 “比一年前设想的更加渐进”，比尔拉说。”我不认为我们需要出于 FOMO 的感觉而行动。”}
The conglomerate will make investments in AI “a little more gradually than we thought a year ago,” Birla said. “I don’t think we need to act out of a sense of FOMO.”