Bata India Limited has elevated Harmeet Kaur to the position of Vice President — Merchandising Retail, as announced by her via social media platform LinkedIn on Monday. Notably, Harmeet has spent her entire 21-year career within the Bata India organisation.
She joined Bata India in February 2005 as a Buyer in the Non-Footwear category. Over the following two decades, she steadily built deep expertise across the company’s most commercially important product segments — moving from non-footwear buying into the Kids and School category, where she spent nearly a decade in progressively senior roles including Buyer, Senior Manager, and eventually Brand Manager.
In October 2020, she transitioned to lead the Ladies category as Brand Manager, before being appointed Division Merchandising Manager for Ladies and Non-Footwear in November 2022 — a role she held for over three years ahead of this latest elevation.
Her appointment as Vice President places her among the senior leadership driving Bata India’s retail merchandising strategy at a time when the footwear market is seeing renewed consumer interest and increasing competition from both domestic and global players.
