Like many others before him, e-commerce solutions provider Anchanto's Indian chief executive Vaibhav Dabhade mistook Swiss multinational shoemaker Bata for a local company.
"When I came to Singapore 15 years ago, one of my biggest realisations was that Bata is not an Indian company," said Mr Dabhade, who was raised in a village in India.
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