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                            abhishek Lodha’s developments
                               are finding takers, profits are               Can
                          spurting but then so have finance
                            costs and borrowings. inside the
                               next-gen scion’s game plan to
                            make his company net debt-free              Lodha
                                      well within three years
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                                                   By Pooja Sarkar


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                  n August 2014, at a fancy   bubbly being passed around in sleek   had brought the two to the city and
                  red carpet event at Four   glasses, sat the current President of   was to develop their Trump Tower
                  Seasons Mumbai, which     the United States. Back then Donald   in Mumbai: Abhishek Lodha, next-
                  looked nothing less than a   Trump, more famous for his TV show   gen scion and managing director
          I Hollywood movie premiere        The Apprentice and his real estate   and CEO of the erstwhile Lodha
          with golden barricades on the sides   business, was flanked by son Trump   Developers Ltd, officially Macrotech
          of the red carpet and glasses of   Junior. And there was the man who   Developers Ltd since May 2019.



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