Bengaluru, Aug. 13 -- India's consumer industry is seeing more family-run businesses achieving scale, which is resulting in attractive buyout opportunities cropping up for private equity firms, a senior executive at ChrysCapital told Mint.

Moreover, generational wealth and businesses are exchanging hands within family-run businesses, prompting many entrepreneurs to sell parts of their business and creating more instances for buyouts, said Rajiv Batra, director and consumer sector lead at ChrysCapital, said.

"We see the share of buyouts increasing in the next 5-7 years. As long as there are strong underlying trends and a good team, we will evaluate both minority investments as well as buyouts in the space."

He added that the availabilit...