Forbes India has a colorful profile of Ess Dee Aluminium founder Sudip Dutta with a special focus on how he is turning around India Foils, which Ess Dee had acquired from the Vedanta Group in November 2008. The entrepreneur got that one thing right that had made his first acquisition successful – he knew his prey inside out. Since 1999, as he nurtured his company, Dutta had kept an eye on what was happening at rival India Foils. By 2004, Dutta had set up his first foil rolling mill in Daman and had crossed Rs. 100 crore in revenues. He had created a niche for himself among pharmaceuticals companies like Pfizer, GlaxoSmithline and Novartis. His rise was acknowledged by the competition. Indal, then a unit of Hindalco Industries, stopped supplying him with the basic raw material as the A.V. Birla company itself was in the packaging business. Dutta quickly started sourcing the material from an overseas company. ...With more than 20 other former India Foils senior managers with him, Dutta ...