Antal International : Antal International Founder Tony Goodwin on India Growth

This video features Antal International founder Tony Goodwin filmed in Mumbai and addressed to potential franchise owners across the group. He frames the message as a direct answer to a recurring question — why has Antal been on the ground in India for twelve years, and why does the leadership still treat the market as strategically important. Goodwin builds his answer around the work of Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman, citing remarks from a recent New Delhi summit. He walks through Krugman's view that India is uniquely positioned to ride the next wave of globalisation on the back of its demographic dividend and service-led growth — a story Krugman argues has barely got the attention it deserves because China has hogged the headlines. The clip also relays Krugman's point that India has the first-mover advantage on service-trade globalisation and that its working-age population is projected to keep expanding while peers from Japan to Italy to China face shrinking labour supply. The closing arc is a recruitment pitch to prospective franchise owners. Goodwin signals that Antal's India expansion will continue at pace and that the network is actively looking for partners with strong professional backgrounds to join what he calls an incredible Indian growth story. The clip is short, founder-led, and intentionally positioned as a credibility piece — the kind of explainer a prospect can watch before a first conversation with the group's franchise team.