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Jaiprakash Gaur is an Indian entrepreneur. He founded and, until his retirement in 2010, was the chairman of Jaypee Group, a conglomerate with a heavy emphasis on engineering and construction (particularly for infrastructure and power projects), cement, and hydropower production. In 2012 he was ranked by Forbes magazine as the 70th-richest person in India, with an estimated net worth of US$855 million. Gaur has been associated with the construction industry for more than five decades. The Jaypee Group is an Indian conglomerate  based in Noida, India. It is involved in well diversified infrastructure conglomerate with business interests in Engineering & Construction, Power, Cement, Real Estate, Hospitality, Expressways, IT, Sports & Education (not-for-profit). In November 2017 the Supreme Court of India barred the directors from selling their assets.

Mohanlal Dayal Chauhan, Chauhan family are the founder of Parle. Parle Products is an Indian private limited  company. It owns the famous biscuit brand Parle-G. As of 2012, it had a 35% dominant share of the Indian biscuit market. As of 2011, as per Nielsen, it was the largest selling biscuit brand in the world.

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Mumbai, India that was founded in 1977 by Gracias Saldanha as a generic drug and active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturer; he named the company after his two sons. The company initially sold its products in India, Russia, and Africa. The company went public in India in 1999, and used some of the proceeds to build its first research facility. Saldanha's son Glenn took over as CEO in 2001, having returned to India after working at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. By 2008 Glenmark was the fifth biggest pharmaceutical company in India.

Ajay Piramal is an Indian businessman. In 2017, Forbes, estimated his net worth to be US $5.6 Billion. He leads the Piramal Group, a diversified conglomerate with a presence across 100 cities. Under his leadership the Piramal Group evolved from a textile centric business to a US$ 7.5 billion conglomerate with diversified business interests across pharmaceuticals, packaging, financial services and real estate. The Piramal Group is a diversified global business conglomerate, which has presence across various sectors such as healthcare, life sciences, drug discovery, healthcare information management, specialty glass packaging, financial services and real estate. Ajay Piramal is the chairman of the Piramal Group.

Rashikbhai Patel was the founder of Cadila Healthcare. Cadila Healthcare is an Indian pharmaceutical company headquartered at Ahmedabad in Gujarat state of western India. The company is the fourth largest pharmaceutical company in India, with INR 54.7 Billion revenue (2015). It is a significant manufacturer of generic drugs.

Dr. Khwaja Abdul Hamied’ was an Indian nationalist and anti-imperialist scientist who founded Cipla, India's oldest pharmaceutical company in 1935. His son, Yusuf Hamied is an Indian scientist and billionaire businessman, the former chairman of Cipla. He headed the company after him for the next 52 years. Cipla Limited is an Indian multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company, headquartered in Mumbai, India. Cipla primarily develops medicines to treat respiratory, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, diabetes, weight control and depression; other medical conditions.

Kallam Anji Reddy was an Indian entrepreneur in the pharmaceutical industry, the founder-chairman of Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, which he established in 1984, and chairman of Dr Reddy's Foundation (DRF), the corporate social responsibility arm of the group, established 1996. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 2001 and later with the Padmabhushan for his contribution to the Indian pharmaceutical industry. He was a member of the Indian Prime Minister's Council on Trade and Industry. Dr. Reddy's Laboratories is an Indian multinational pharmaceutical company based in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Dr. Reddy's manufactures and markets a wide range of pharmaceuticals in India and overseas. The company has over 190 medications, 60 active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for drug manufacture, diagnostic kits, critical care, and biotechnology products.

Desh Bandhu Gupta was an Indian billionaire businessman, the founder and chairman of Lupin Limited, a multinational pharmaceutical company. Lupin Limited is a transnational pharmaceutical company based in Mumbai. It is the seventh-largest company by market capitalization; and the 10th-largest generic pharmaceutical company by revenue globally.

The Torrent Group worth USD 2.8 billion is a group of companies in India founded by the late Uttambhai Nathalal Mehta, and run by his sons, Sudhir and Samir Mehta. The core business of the group is pharmaceuticals and power. The various companies under the Torrent banner are: Torrent Pharmaceuticals – One of the largest pharmaceutical companies of India. It has four manufacturing plants: (a) Chhatral, Gujarat (b) Baddi, Himachal Pradesh (c) Gangtok Sikkim  (d) Dahej, Gujarat. TPL has Research Centre at Indrad, Near Ahmedabad in Gujarat. Torrent Power – Responsible for generation, transmission and distribution of power to the cities of Ahmedabad and Surat. The company has taken up distribution of electricity in Bhiwandi Maharashtra, Agra and Kanpur Uttar Pradesh. Torrent Cables- Torrent cables was taken over from ailing Mahindra Electricals and revamped. It manufactures up to 132KV XLPE cables. The corporate headquarters of the company are located at Nehrunagar ...

P.V. Ramprasad Reddy is an Indian businessman, billionaire and co-founder of Aurobindo Pharma along with K. Nityananda Reddy. On the 2016 Forbes list of Indian billionaires, P.V was ranked 27 in India and 688 in world with a net worth of US$2.5 billion. The World Pharmaceutical Frontiers announced him one of the top thirty five influential people in the industry of pharmaceutical in 2008. Aurobindo Pharma Limited is a pharmaceutical manufacturing company headquartered in HITEC City, Hyderabad, India. The company manufactures generic pharmaceuticals and active pharmaceutical ingredients. The company’s area of activity includes six major therapeutic/product areas: antibiotics, anti-retrovirals, cardiovascular products, central nervous system products, gastroenterologicals, and anti-allergics. The company markets these products in over 125 countries. Its marketing partners include AstraZeneca and Pfizer.

Dilip Shanghvi is an Indian billionaire businessman and one of the country's richest people. He founded Sun Pharmaceuticals with a partner, Pradeep Ghosh. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 2016. India Today magazine ranked him 8th in India's most powerful people of 2017 list. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited is an Indian multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra that manufactures and sells pharmaceutical formulations and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) primarily in India and the United States. The company offers formulations in various therapeutic areas, such as cardiology, psychiatry, neurology, gastroenterology and diabetology. It also provides APIs such as warfarin, carbamazepine, etodolac, and clorazepate, as well as anticancers, steroids, peptides, sex hormones, and controlled substances.

M Manal is the founder of Himalaya Drug Company. The Himalaya Drug Company is a company established by M Manal in 1930 and based in Bangalore, India. It produces health care products under the name Himalaya Herbal Healthcare whose products include ayurvedic ingredients. It is spread across locations in India, the United States, the Middle East, Asia and Europe. While its products are sold in 92 countries across the world.

Acharya Balkrishna is an Indian billionaire, reckoned by Forbes to have a net worth of US$6.1 billion as of March 2018. Baba Ramdev & Acharya Balkrishna are the founder of Patanjali Ayurved. Patanjali Ayurved Limited is an Indian FMCG company. Manufacturing units and headquarters are located in the industrial area of Haridwar while the registered office is located at Delhi. The company manufactures mineral and herbal products. It also has manufacturing units in Nepal under the trademark Nepal Gramudhyog and imports majority of herbs in India from Himalayas of Nepal. According to CLSA and HSBC, Patanjali is the fastest growing FMCG company in India. It is valued at ₹30 billion (US$460 million) and some predict revenues of ₹5,000 crore (US$770 million) for the fiscal 2015–16. Patanjali declared its annual turnover of the year 2016-17 to be estimated ₹10,216 crore (US$1.6 billion). Baba Ramdev has stated in his interview with CNN-News18 that profit from Patanja...

Sergey Nikolayevich Galitsky is a Russian billionaire businessman, the founder and co-owner of Magnit, Russia's largest retailer. Tander, doing business as Magnit is Russia's largest food retailer. It was founded in 1994 in Krasnodar.

Vagit Yusufovich Alekperov is an Azerbaijani and Russian businessman and the founder & president of the leading Russian oil company LUKOIL. The PJSC Lukoil Oil Company is a Russian multinational energy corporation headquartered in Moscow, specializing in the business of extraction, production, transport, and sale of petroleum, natural gas, and petroleum products. It was formed in 1991 when three state-run, western Siberian companies named after the respective town in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug that each was based in, Langepasneftegaz, Urayneftegaz, and Kogalymneftegaz, merged. Its name is the combination of the acronym LUK and the English word "oil".

Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri Ltd. (TBZ) is a noted Indian jeweller and jewellery retail chain based in India. Established in 1864 by Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri in Zaveri Bazaar, the jewellery district of Mumbai, it was subsequently headed by his son, Gopaldas Tribhovandas Zaveri, and now Shrikant Zaveri, is the present chairman and managing director of the group. The company today, has 31 showrooms in 23 cities across eleven states, including Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Rajkot. The company proposed an Initial Public Offer (IPO) in July 2011.

PC Jeweller Limited started operations in April 2005 with one showroom at Karol Bagh Delhi and 79 showrooms across India. It is a first generation business promoted by two brothers- Padam Chand Gupta and Balram Garg. The company however, had a vision of expanding its presence in the retail segment. It has accordingly been opening showrooms at regular intervals and today has strength of 68 stores spread over 54 cities.

Kalyan Jewellers is an Indian jewellery store chain owned by the Kalyan Group. It was founded by T. S. Kalyanaraman, who started the first jewellery shop in 1993 in Thrissur, Kerala, India (the company's current headquarters) with a capital of ₹7.5 million (US$110,000) and has since grown to become the largest jewellery store chain in India. With approximately 8000 employees, the chain has 79 showrooms across India. Bloomberg has valued Kalyan Jewellers at about $1 billion in January, 2013. Global Private Equity Fund Warburg Pincus made an investment of $200 Million (INR 1200 Cr) in Kalyan Jewellers in October, 2014.

Alberto Beggio founded the Aprilia company. Aprilia is an Italian motorcycle company, one of the brands owned by Piaggio. Having started as a manufacturer of bicycles it moved on to manufacture scooters and small-capacity motorcycles. In more recent times Aprilia has produced large sportbikes such as the 1,000 cc V-twin RSV Mille and the V4 RSV4. Aprilia has enjoyed considerable success in road-racing.

Giuseppe Lazzaro Morpurgo was the founder of Assicurazioni Generali Group. Generali Group is an Italian insurance company, the largest in Italy and third in the world. It has its headquarters in Trieste. In 2010, Assicurazioni Generali Group was the second largest insurance group in the world by revenue after AXA

Jan Koum is a Ukrainian-American internet inventor and computer programmer. He is the CEO and co-founder of WhatsApp, a mobile messaging application which was acquired by Facebook Inc. in February 2014 for US$19.3 billion. Brian Acton is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of WhatsApp. WhatsApp Messenger is a freeware and cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service. The application allows the sending of text messages and voice calls, as well as video calls, images and other media, documents, and user location. The application runs from a mobile device though it is also accessible from desktop computers; the service uses standard cellular mobile numbers. Originally users could only communicate with other users individually or in groups of individual users, but in September 2017 WhatsApp announced a forthcoming business platform which will enable companies to provide customer service to users at scale.

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg  is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of Facebook and is currently its chairman and chief executive officer. His net worth is estimated to be US$62.2 billion as of March 25, 2018. Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.

John Collison is an Irish entrepreneur. He is best known for having co-founded Stripe with his brother, Patrick. The brothers are worth at least $1.1 billion each, after San Francisco-based Stripe raised $150 million from CapitalG, an investment division of Google parent company Alphabet, and General Catalyst Partners. Stripe is an Irish technology company operating in over 25 countries that allows both private individuals and businesses to accept payments over the Internet. Stripe focuses on providing the technical, fraud prevention, and banking infrastructure required to operate on-line payment systems.

Brian Joseph Chesky is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded the hospitality exchange service Airbnb. Chesky is the CEO of the company and was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People of 2015". Joseph Gebbia Jr. is an American designer and Internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Airbnb. In 2009, Gebbia was listed in BusinessWeek’s Top 20 Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs. In 2010, he was named in Inc. Magazine’s Thirty under Thirty, and 2013, he was named in Fortune Magazine’s Forty-under-Forty. Nathan "Nate" Blecharczyk is an American business executive and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and chief strategy officer of Airbnb and Chairman of Airbnb China. Blecharczyk was also the company's first chief technology officer. Airbnb is an American company which operates an online marketplace and hospitality service for people to lease or rent short-term lodging including holiday cottages, apartments, homestays...

Fredrik Idestam, Leo Mechelin & Eduard Polón are the founder of Nokia. Nokia is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology and consumer electronics company, founded in 1865. Nokia's headquarters are in Espoo, in the greater Helsinki metropolitan area. In 2017, Nokia employed approximately 102,000 people across over 100 countries, did business in more than 130 countries, and reported annual revenues of around €23 billion. Nokia is a public limited company listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange. It is the world's 415th-largest company measured by 2016 revenues according to the Fortune Global 500, and is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University, California. Together, they own about 14 percent of its shares and control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An Initial public offering (IPO) took place on August 19, 2004, and Google moved to its new headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex. In August 2015, Google announced plans to reorganize its various interests as a conglomerate called Alphabet Inc. Google, Alphabet's leading subsidiary, will continue to be the umbrella company for Alphabet's Internet interests. Upon completion of the restructure, Sundar Pichai...

William Henry Gates III is an American business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist, humanitarian, and principal founder of the Microsoft Corporation. Paul Gardner Allen is an American business magnate, investor and philanthropist. He co-founded Microsoft alongside Bill Gates. In June 2017, he was estimated to be the 46th-richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $21.1 billion. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface lineup of touchscreen personal computers. As of 2016, it is the world's largest software make...

Sunil Bharti Mittal is an Indian Billionaire entrepreneur, philanthropist and the Founder & Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, which has diversified interests in telecom, insurance, real estate, malls, hospitality, agri and food besides other ventures. Bharti Airtel, the group's flagship company is the world's third largest and India's largest telecom company with operations in 17 countries across Asia and Africa with a customer base of over 372 million. Bharti Airtel clocked revenues of over USD 14.75 billion in FY2016. He is listed as the 8th Richest person in India by Forbes with a Net worth of $7 Billion.

Kavin Bharti Mittal is an Internet entrepreneur and is the founder and CEO of Hike Messenger, the world's sixth-largest mobile messaging application. He is the son of Sunil Mittal, the founder and chairman of Bharti Airtel, India's largest telecom company with a user base of over 350 million. Hike Messenger is a cross-platform instant messaging service for smartphones that use the internet for communication. In addition to text messaging, users can send each other graphical stickers, emoticons, images, videos, audios, files, voice messages, contacts and user location.

Anil Agarwal is the founder and Chairman of Vedanta Resources Plc. Vedanta Resources plc is a global diversified metals and mining company with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom. It is the largest mining and non-ferrous metals company in India and has mining operations in Australia and Zambia and oil and gas operations in three countries. Its main products are copper, zinc, aluminium, lead, iron ore and petroleum. It is also developing commercial power stations in India in Odisha (2,400 MW) and Punjab (1,980 MW). The company is principally owned by Indian billionaire Anil Agarwal through Volcan Investments, a holding vehicle with a 61.7% stake in the business.

Maharaja H. H. Sir Sayajirao Gaekwad III is founder of Bank of Baroda (BoB). Bank of Baroda (BoB) is an Indian state-owned International banking and financial services company headquartered in Vadodara (earlier known as Baroda) in Gujarat, India. It has a corporate office in Mumbai.

Balaji Wafers and Namkeen group, founded by Bhikhubhai, Chandubhai and Kanubhai Virani in Rajkot, Gujarat, India, manufactures and distributes potato chips and other grain-based bagged snacks in various flavours. Started as a micro-business, it has evolved into a Rs 4000 crore company of quality products with an indigenous taste.

Asian Paints Limited is an Indian multinational paint company founded by Champaklal H. Choksey & Chimanlal N. Choksi in 1942 which is  headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The Company is engaged in the business of manufacturing, selling and distribution of paints, coatings, products related to home decor, bath fittings and providing of related services. Asian Paints is India's largest and Asia's fourth largest paints corporation. As of 2015, it has the largest market share with 54.1% in the Indian paint industry. Asian Paints is the holding company of Berger International.

Parmanand Deepchand Hinduja was an Indian businessman, the founder of the Hinduja Group. The Hinduja Group is an Indian conglomerate company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. They are involved in a wide range of activities including foundries, import export, trading, motor vehicles, banking, call centres and healthcare.

Ashok Leyland is an Indian automobile manufacturing company headquartered in Chennai, India. It is owned by the Hinduja Group.

Amul is an Indian dairy cooperative, founded by Tribhuvandas Patel in 1946. Amul is based at Anand in the state of Gujarat.

Suresh Kumar Neotia was an Indian industrialist, entrepreneur, art collector, philanthropist and the co-founder of Ambuja Cements and associated companies. He was the chairman of the Group till 2009 when he relinquished the position in favor of his co-founder, Narotam Sekhsaria, and remained as the Chairman Emeritus of the Group until his death. He was a recipient of Harvard Business School - Economic Times Award and was involved in many social activities which included the promotion of cultural organizations such as Anamika Kala Sangam and Padatik. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 2008, for his contributions to trade and industry. Ambuja Cements Limited, formerly known as Gujarat Ambuja Cement Limited, is an Indian major cement producing company, the second largest in the world and first in its continent. The Group's principal activity is to manufacture and market cement and clinker for both domestic and export markets...

The Ador Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate headquartered in Mumbai. Ador Group, formerly known as JB Advani Group, is one of the oldest and largest companies in the Indian industrial sector. They are a diversified group with core operations in engineering products and services. The group consists of five companies with interests in core industrial and manufacturing sectors, cosmetic products and green energy solutions. Ador Group's flagship company is Ador Welding (earlier known as Advani Oerlikon Ltd). Two other listed entities Ador Fontech and Ador Multiproducts are into metal reclamation/surfacing solutions and personal care products, respectively. The unlisted entity Ador Powertron is an industrial electronics company based in Pune.

Rajesh Mehta is an Indian billionaire businessman, based in Bangalore. He is the owner and executive chairman of the jewellery company Rajesh Exports. As of April 2017, Forbes estimated his net worth at $2.6 billion, making him the 61st richest person in India. Rajesh Exports Limited is a gold retailer in India which refines, designs, and sells gold and jewelry. The company ranked 295th on the Fortune Global 500 in 2017, with revenues of more than $36 billion, making it the fifth-largest company in India by revenue.

The Muthoot Group is a business house based in India. It was founded by Muthoot Ninan Mathai in 1887. Muthoot Group has interests in Financial Services, Information Technology, Media, Healthcare, Education, Power Generation, Infrastructure, Plantations, Precious metal, Tourism, and Hospitality. The Muthoot Group operates in 29 states in India, and has presence in Nepal, Sri Lanka, USA, UK and UAE. It is owned and managed by the Muthoot Family.

Sameer Gehlaut is Chairman and Founder of Indiabulls Group. He holds a B.Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He serves as Chairman of the Indiabulls Group, a conglomerate engaged in the businesses of Housing Finance, Real Estate and Consumer Finance. Indiabulls Group companies have a market cap of over 80,000 crores (12.5 billion USD). The group is one of the top dividend paying groups amongst the Indian listed promoter owned group/companies. Indiabulls Housing Finance is a part of Nifty 50, India's premier stock market index and has a AAA rating from Moody's in India. Indiabulls is an Indian group with its Headquarters in Gurgaon and Corporate Office in Mumbai. It has presence in sectors ranging from Real Estate, Infrastructure, Housing Finance and Securities.

Lei Jun is a Chinese entrepreneur and the founder of Xiaomi Inc. Xiaomi Inc. is a Chinese electronics and software company headquartered in Beijing. Xiaomi designs, develops, and sells smartphones, mobile apps, laptops and related consumer electronics.

UnitedEternity Communications is a Indian Mass media company founded in 2018 by Rakesh R. Bag an Indian Businessman, Investor & a member of a political party. UnitedEternity Communications is a subsidiary of Rakesh Bag Group. UnitedEternity Communications have only few employees as it was started recently. UnitedEternity Communications mainly deals with Electronic based communications like Blogs and Websites. As in recent years UnitedEternity Communications may start there e-news & e-magazine.

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is an American multinational tire manufacturing company founded in 1898 by Frank Seiberling and based in Akron, Ohio. Goodyear manufactures tires for automobiles, commercial trucks, light trucks, motorcycles, SUVs, race cars, airplanes, farm equipment and heavy earth-mover machinery. It also produced bicycle tires from its founding until 1976. As of 2017, Goodyear is one of the top four tire manufacturers along with Bridgestone (Japan), Michelin (France) and Continental (Germany).

Justdial is an Indian based company founded by Mr. Venkatachalam Sthanu Subramani Mani (V.S.S. Mani) Managing director and Chief executive officer of Just Dial. He was born in 1966 at the Tata Main Hospital in Jamshedpur. Justdial provides search services and is made available on Website and Mobile. The company's headquarters is in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It has offices in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata and Pune. The customers are required to call a hotline number and ask the operator what service they are looking for (e.g. restaurants, hospitals, banks etc.) and in which area. In turn the operator will send them an email and an SMS with the information. Apart from this, customers can search for the information of any specific business on the Website and Mobile Application. Just Dial was in news on November 10, 2017 for expected acquisition by Google and based on this news the share prices at NSE rose about 20%.

Jamnalal Bajaj was an Indian industrialist, a philanthropist, and Indian independence fighter. He was also a close associate and follower of Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi is known to have adopted him as his son. He founded the Bajaj Group of companies in 1926. The group now has 24 companies, including 6 listed companies. Besides Bajaj Auto Ltd, the other major companies in the group include Mukand Ltd, Bajaj Electricals Ltd and Bajaj Hindusthan Ltd. One of his grandsons, Rahul Bajaj, runs the family flagship company, Bajaj Auto. Several institutions in India bears his name, including the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies. A locality, JB Nagar, in the sub-urban Andheri in Mumbai has been named after him. Bajaj Group is an Indian conglomerate company. Bajaj Group is one of the oldest and largest conglomerates based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The group comprises 37 companies and its flagship company Bajaj Auto is ranked as the world's fourth largest two- and three-wheeler manufact...

Thirukkurungudi Vengaram Sundaram Iyengar was an Indian industrialist and automobile pioneer. In 1911, he founded T. V. Sundaram Iyengar & Sons, a bus company which later diversified into automobile production and emerged as the parent company of the TVS Group. With his humble beginning as a lawyer, he grew into one of the most successful industrialists of his time. The Flagship Company of the group is TVS Motors established by his son T.S. Doraiswamy. He laid foundation for road transport industry in the erstwhile Madras Presidency through the states first bus service. The TVS group he thus started now extends from motor industry, autoservices to financial services. TVS Group is one of Indias largest diversified industrial conglomerate with its principal headquarters located in Madurai and international hradquarters in Chennai. It has its presence across 129 countries with 73 holding group companies. The largest and most visible subsidiary is TVS Motor Company, the third-largest ...

V-Guard Industries Ltd is a major electrical appliances manufacturer in India, and the largest in the World with an annual turnover of 21.50 billion INR (FY 2017). It manufactures voltage stabilizers, electrical cable, electric pumps, electric motors, geysers, solar water heaters, electric fans and UPSs. It was founded in 1977 by Kochouseph Chittilappilly as a small voltage stabilizer manufacturing unit.

Qimat Rai Gupta was an Indian entrepreneur, founder, former chairman and managing director of Havells, a global electrical company. Qimat was among the 100 richest Indians, and on Forbes list of global billionaires. Havells India Ltd is one of the largest electrical equipment companies in India. Founded in 1983, the company has products ranging from home and kitchen appliances, lighting for domestic, commercial and industrial applications, LED lighting, fans, modular switches and wiring accessories, water heaters, industrial and domestic circuit protection switchgear, industrial and domestic cables and wires, induction motors, and capacitors among others.

The Godrej Group is an Indian conglomerate headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, managed and largely owned by the Godrej family. It was founded by Ardeshir Godrej and Pirojsha Burjorji Godrej in 1897, and operates in noida sectors as diverse as real estate, consumer products, industrial engineering, appliances, furniture, security and agricultural products. Subsidiaries and affiliated companies include Godrej Industries and its subsidiaries Godrej Consumer Products, Godrej Agrovet, and Godrej Properties, as well as the private holding company Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd.

Lala Juggilal Singhania, Lala Kamlapat Singhania & Hari Shankar Singhania are the founders of JK Tyre. JK Tyre & Industries Ltd is an Automotive Tyre, Tubes and flaps manufacturing company based in Delhi, India. The name JK is derived from the initials of Kamlapatji (1884–1937) and his father Seth Juggilal (1857–1922). The company is the market leader in Truck/Bus Radial tire in India and is the only tyre manufacturer offering the entire range of 4 wheeler radials for Trucks, Buses and Cars. JK Tyre has a worldwide customer base in over 80 countries across all 6 continents. It is a part of J. K. Organisation group of Companies. JK Tyre acquired Mexican tyre major – Tornel in 2008. With production facilities in all 9 plants, total production capacity is almost 20 million tyres p.a.

Bridgestone Corporation is a multinational auto and truck parts manufacturer founded in 1931 by Shojiro Ishibashi in the city of Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan. The name Bridgestone comes from a calque translation and transposition of ishibashi, meaning "stone bridge" in Japanese.

Onkar S. Kanwar is the founder of Apollo Tyres. Apollo Tyres Ltd is the world's 14th biggest tyre manufacturer, with annual consolidated revenues of Rs 140.53 billion (US$2.09 billion) in March 2017. It was founded in 1972. Its first plant was commissioned in Perambra, Thrissur, Kerala, India. The company now has four manufacturing units in India, 1 in Netherlands and 1 in Hungary. It has a network of nearly 5,000 dealerships in India, of which over 2,500 are exclusive outlets.

Virginio Bruni Tedeschi is the Founder of CEAT. CEAT (Cavi Elettrici e Affini Torino) ltd., the flagship company of RPG Enterprises, was established in 1924 in Turin. Today, CEAT is one of India’s leading tyre manufacturers and has presence in global markets. CEAT produces over 165 million tyres a year and offers tyres to all segments and manufactures radials for: trucks and buses, light commercial vehicles, earthmovers, forklifts, tractors, trailers, cars, motorcycles and scooters as well as auto-rickshaws.The current capacity of CEAT tyres' plants is over 800 tonnes per day.

K. M. Mammen Mappillai was born in Kerala to K. C. Mammen Mappillai and Kunjandamma (Modisseril Family ) as the youngest of the prosperous family of eight sons and a daughter. He is the founder of Madras Rubber Factory (MRF). Madras Rubber Factory Limited, commonly known by the abbreviation MRF, is an Indian multinational and the largest manufacturer of tyres in India and the fourteenth largest manufacturer in the world. It is headquartered in Chennai, India. The company manufactures rubber products including tyres, treads, tubes and conveyor belts, paints and toys. MRF also runs the MRF Pace Foundation, Chennai and MRF Challenge in motorsport.

Bernard Henry Kroger better known as Barney Kroger, was an American businessman who created the Kroger chain of supermarkets starting in 1883. The Kroger Company, or simply Kroger, is an American retailing company founded in 1883 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is the United States's largest supermarket chain by revenue ($115.34 billion for fiscal year 2016), the second-largest general retailer (behind Walmart) and the eighteenth largest company in the United States. Kroger is also the third-largest retailer in the world and the third largest private employer in the United States. As of December 2015, Kroger operates, either directly or through its subsidiaries, 2,778 supermarkets and multi-department stores. Kroger's headquarters are in downtown Cincinnati. It maintains markets in 34 states, with store formats that include hypermarkets, supermarkets, superstores, department stores, 786 convenience stores, and 326 jewelry stores. Kroger-branded grocery stores are located in the Midwes...

Yuan Geng is the founder of China Merchants Bank (CMB). China Merchants Bank (CMB) is a Chinese bank headquartered in Futian District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. Founded in 1987, it is the first share-holding commercial bank wholly owned by corporate legal entities in China.

Yuan Geng is the founder of CSG Holding Limited. CSG Holding Limited, formerly China Southern Glass Holding Limited, is the largest architectural glass manufacturer in China. It involves in manufacturing and selling glass products, such as float glass, architectural glass, display glass, automotive glass, coated glass, mirrors, color filter glass, solar glass and conservation glass.

Yuan Geng is the founder of China International Marine Containers. China International Marine Containers (Group) Co., Ltd  is a Chinese company principally engaged in the manufacture and sale of transportation equipment, such as containers, road transport vehicles and airport ground-handling equipment.

Yuan Geng born Ouyang Rushan, was a Chinese guerrilla fighter, war hero, spy, policy visionary, and serial entrepreneur on behalf of the Chinese state. He was an early proponent of China's reform and opening up, and went on to create Ping An Insurance. Ping An Insurance full name Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. is a Chinese holding conglomerate whose subsidiaries mainly deal with insurance, banking, and financial services. The company was founded in 1988 and has its headquarter in Shenzhen. "Ping An" literally means "safe and well".

Charles Rudolph Walgreen was an American businessman who founded Walgreens. The Walgreen Company is an American company that operates as the second-largest pharmacy store chain in the United States behind CVS Health. It specializes in filling prescriptions, health and wellness products, health information, and photo services. As of August 31, 2016, the company operated 8,175 stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It was founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1901. The Walgreens headquarters office is in the Chicago suburb of Deerfield, Illinois.

John Boot was the founder of Boots the Chemists. Boots UK is a pharmacy chain in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, Thailand and other territories. The parent company, The Boots Company Plc, merged with Alliance UniChem in 2006 to form Alliance Boots. In 2007, Alliance Boots was bought by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Stefano Pessina, taking the company private, and moving its headquarters to Switzerland, the first ever FTSE 100 company bought by a private equity firm. In 2012, Walgreens bought a 45% stake in Alliance Boots, with the option to buy the rest within three years. It exercised this option in 2014, and as a result Boots became a subsidiary of the new company, Walgreens Boots Alliance, on 31 December 2014.

Charles Rudolph Walgreen an American businessman & John Boot who founded Walgreens Boots Alliance with the Merger of Walgreens and Boots. Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. is an American holding company headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois that owns Walgreens, Boots, and a number of pharmaceutical manufacturing, wholesale and distribution companies. The company was formed on December 31, 2014 after Walgreens purchased the 55% stake in UK & Switzerland-based Alliance Boots that it did not already own. Walgreens had previously purchased 45% of the company in 2012 with an option to purchase the remaining shares within three years.

James D. Sinegal is a retired American businessman, who was the co-founder and former CEO of the Costco Wholesale Corporation, an international retail chain along with Jeffrey Hart Brotman who was an American attorney. He was also the co-founder and chairman of Costco Wholesale Corporation. Costco Wholesale Corporation, trading as Costco, is an American multinational corporation which operates a chain of membership-only warehouse clubs. As of 2015, Costco was the second largest retailer in the world after Walmart, and as of 2016, Costco was the world's largest retailer of choice and prime beef, organic foods, rotisserie chicken, and wine.

Robert D. Walter is an American businessman best known for his role in the creation of Cardinal Health. Walter graduated from St. Charles Preparatory School and has a BA from Ohio University. After a brief and unhappy stint as an engineer, Walter attended Harvard Business School, where he received an MBA. In 1971 he purchased Cardinal Foods, a small Ohio food wholesaler, in a leveraged buyout. In 1979, the company acquired Bailey Drug Company and began wholesaling drugs. In subsequent years, the company experienced extraordinary growth, "one of a handful of large U.S. companies that had achieved earnings-per-share growth in excess of 20 percent for 15 years straight. Cardinal Health, Inc. is a Fortune 500 health care services company based in Dublin, Ohio. The company specializes in distribution of pharmaceuticals and medical products, serving more than 100,000 locations. The company also manufactures medical and surgical products, including gloves, surgical apparel and fluid m...

Carl von Thieme was a German banker. His father was the director of German company Thuringia. In 1880, he founded Allianz, a financial services company. Allianz is a European financial services company headquartered in Munich, Germany. Its core businesses are insurance and asset management. As of 2014, it is the world's largest insurance company, the largest financial services group and the largest company according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine, as well as the largest financial services company when measured by 2013 revenue. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.

Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman, who has been described as one of America's greatest inventors. He founded General Electric (GE) with John Pierpont Morgan Sr. who was an American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation in the United States of America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Edwin J. Houston who was an American businessman, professor, consulting electrical engineer, inventor and author. Charles Albert Coffin who was the cofounder and first President of General Electric corporation and Elihu Thomson who was an English-born American engineer and inventor who was instrumental in the founding of major electrical companies in the United States, the United Kingdom and France. General Electric (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate incorporated in New York and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. As of 2016, the company operates through the following segments: aviation, current, digital, en...

Ernest Mercier was a French industrialist, director of the French Petroleum Company (CFP), the founder of the French petroleum conglomerate Total. He was born in 1878 in Constantine, Algeria (then a French colony). Total S.A. is a French multinational integrated oil and gas company and one of the seven "Supermajor" oil companies in the world. Its businesses cover the entire oil and gas chain, from crude oil and natural gas exploration and production to power generation, transportation, refining, petroleum product marketing, and international crude oil and product trading.

Soichiro Honda was a Japanese engineer and industrialist. In 1948, he established Honda Motor Co., Ltd. and oversaw its expansion from a wooden shack manufacturing bicycle motors to a multinational automobile and motorcycle manufacturer. Takeo Fujisawa was a Japanese businessman who co-founded Honda Motor Co., Ltd. alongside Soichiro Honda. Fujisawa oversaw the financial side of the company while Honda handled the engineering and product development. Honda Motor Company, Ltd. is a Japanese public multinational conglomerate corporation primarily known as a manufacturer of automobiles, aircraft, motorcycles, and power equipment.

Terry Gou is a Taiwanese tycoon who is the founder and chairman of Foxconn, the world's largest contract manufacturer of electronics, with factories in several countries, mostly in mainland China where it employs 1.2 million people and is its largest private employer and exporter. Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., trading as Foxconn Technology Group, is a multinational electronics contract manufacturing company headquartered in Tucheng, New Taipei, Taiwan. Foxconn is the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer and the fourth-largest information technology company by revenue. The company is the largest private employer in China and one of the largest employers worldwide.

Blue Origin, LLC is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company headquartered in Kent, Washington. Founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, the company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and increase reliability. Blue Origin is employing an incremental approach from suborbital to orbital flight, with each developmental step building on its prior work. The company motto is Gradatim Ferociter, Latin for Step by Step, Ferociously. Blue Origin is developing a variety of technologies, with a focus on rocket-powered vertical takeoff and vertical landing (VTVL) vehicles for access to suborbital and orbital space. The company's name refers to the blue planet, Earth, as the point of origin.

Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American technology entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist, best known as the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Amazon, the world's largest online shopping retailer. Amazon.com, Inc., is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company based in Seattle, Washington that was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994. The tech giant is the largest Internet retailer in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization, and second largest after Alibaba Group in terms of total sales. The amazon.com website started as an online bookstore and later diversified to sell video downloads/streaming, MP3 downloads/streaming, audiobook downloads/streaming, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry. The company also produces consumer electronics—Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Echo—and is the world's largest provider of cloud infrastructure services (IaaS and PaaS). Amazon als...

Claude Bébéar is a French businessman. He is the founder and former CEO of AXA. AXA is a French multinational insurance firm headquartered in the 8th arrondissement of Paris that engages in global insurance, investment management, and other financial services.

Henry Ford was an American captain of industry and a business magnate, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. The Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. The company sells automobiles and commercial vehicles under the Ford brand and most luxury cars under the Lincoln brand. Ford also owns Brazilian SUV manufacturer, Troller, and Australian performance car manufacturer FPV. In the past, it has also produced tractors and automotive components. Ford owns an 8% stake in Aston Martin of the United Kingdom,[needs update] and a 49% stake in Jiangling of China[citation needed]. It also has a number of joint-ventures, one in China (Changan Ford), one in Taiwan (Ford Lio Ho), one in Thailand (AutoAlliance Thailand), one in Turkey (Ford Otosan), and one in Russia (Ford Soll...

The Agnelli family is an Italian multi-industry business dynasty founded by Giovanni Agnelli, one of the original founders in Piedmont (in 1899) of what became the FIAT motor company. They are also primarily known for other activities in the automotive industry as the owners of Ferrari since 1969, Lancia (1969), Alfa Romeo (1986) and Chrysler (2009) through their own multinational corporation, as well as for having been the main operators of the Juventus F.C. of the Italian Serie A since 1923 and its majority owners since its conversion to a public limited company in 1967. By 2010 the family controlled Italy’s largest manufacturer, Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino (FIAT), through its holding company EXOR N.V. Exor N.V. is an Italian leading investment company, incorporated in the Netherlands and controlled by Italy's Agnelli/Elkann family. It has a capitalization of over $17 billion USD, with a history of investments running over a century. Its principal investments include Fi...

William Crapo "Billy" Durant was a leading pioneer of the United States automobile industry, who created the system of multi-brand holding companies with different lines of cars; and the co-founder of General Motors. Charles Stewart Mott was an American businessman, a co-founder of General Motors. Frederic Latta Smith was an American football player and pioneer of the automobile business. He became a pioneer in the automobile business in Michigan. He was one of the founders of the General Motors Corporation in 1908. General Motors Company, commonly abbreviated as GM, is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Detroit that designs, manufactures, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts, and sells financial services. With global headquarters in Detroit's Renaissance Center, GM manufactures cars and trucks in 35 countries. In 2008, 8.35 million GM cars and trucks were sold globally under various brands. GM reached the milestone of selling 10 mill...

Marc Rich was an international commodities trader, hedge fund manager, financier and businessman. He was best known for developing modern 20th century financial markets for commodities and founding the commodities company Glencore. He was also known for receiving a pardon by former President Clinton in the United States from federal charges related to violating sanctions against his oil and commodity trades with Iran. He was in Switzerland at the time of the indictment and never returned to the United States throughout the rest of his life. He received a presidential pardon from U.S. President Bill Clinton on January 20, 2001, Clinton's last day in office. Glencore plc (an acronym for Global Energy Commodity Resources) is an Anglo–Swiss multinational commodity trading and mining company with headquarters in Baar, Switzerland, and a registered office in Saint Helier, Jersey. The current company was created through a merger of Glencore with Xstrata on 2 May 2013. As of 2015, it ran...

Lee Byung-chul was the founder of the Samsung Group and one of South Korea's most successful businessmen. With the breakup of the Hyundai chaebol, Samsung is now South Korea's largest business group. Samsung is a South Korean multinational conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul. It comprises numerous affiliated businesses, most of them united under the Samsung brand, and is the largest South Korean chaebol (business conglomerate).

Richard Taylor Burke founded Charter Med Incorporated, a Minnesota-based privately held company. In 1977, UnitedHealthCare Corporation was created to reorganize the company. UnitedHealth Group Inc. is an American for-profit managed health care company based in Minnetonka, Minnesota. It is sixth in the United States on the Fortune 500. UnitedHealth Group offers health care products and insurance services. UnitedHealth Group is the largest healthcare company in the world by revenue $184 billion in 2016. UnitedHealth Group subsidiaries companies together serves approximately 115 million individuals in 2016.

William Knox D'Arcy was one of the principal founders of the oil and petrochemical industry in Persia (Iran) (Now known as BP). Concession to explore, obtain, and market oil, natural gas, asphalt, and ozokerite was given to him and the concession known as the D’Arcy Concession in Iran. BP plc, formerly British Petroleum, is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. It is one of the world's seven oil and gas "supermajors", whose performance in 2012 made it the world's sixth-largest oil and gas company, the sixth-largest energy company by market capitalization and the company with the world's twelfth-largest revenue (turnover). It is a vertically integrated company operating in all areas of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production, refining, distribution and marketing, petrochemicals, power generation and trading. It also has renewable energy interests in biofuels and wind power.

Charles Olcott & John McKesson are the founders of McKesson Corporation. McKesson Corporation is an American company distributing pharmaceuticals and providing health information technology, medical supplies, and care management tools. The company had revenues of $198.5 billion in 2017.

Steven Paul Jobs was an American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, and industrial designer. He was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and a co-founder of Apple Inc., CEO and majority shareholder of Pixar, a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar, and the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT. Jobs and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak are widely recognized as pioneers of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. Stephen Gary Wozniak is an American inventor, electronics engineer, programmer, philanthropist, and technology entrepreneur who co-founded Apple Computer, Inc. Ronald Gerald Wayne is an American retired electronics industry worker. He co-founded Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) with Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, providing administrative oversight for the new venture. However, he soon sold his share of the new company back to Jobs and Wozniak for $800 US dollars, and later accepted $1,500 to forfeit a...

Oliver Chace was the founder of several New England textile manufacturing companies in the early 19th century, including the Valley Falls Company, the original antecedent of Berkshire Hathaway, currently one of the largest companies in the world. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. The company wholly owns GEICO, Dairy Queen, BNSF Railway, Lubrizol, Fruit of the Loom, Helzberg Diamonds, Long & Foster, FlightSafety International, Pampered Chef, and NetJets, and also owns 38.6% of Pilot Flying J; 26.7% of the Kraft Heinz Company, and significant minority holdings in American Express (17.6%), The Coca-Cola Company (9.4%), Wells Fargo (9.9%), and Apple (3.3%).[3] Since 2016, the company has acquired large holdings in the major US airline carriers, and is currently the largest shareholder in United Airlines and Delta Air Lines, and a top three shareholder in Southwest Airlines and American Air...

Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted JP known in later life as Sir Marcus Samuel, Bt between 1903 and 1921 and subsequently as The Lord Bearsted until 1925, was the founder of the Shell Transport and Trading Company, which was later restructured including a Holland-based company commonly referred to as Royal Dutch Shell. Royal Dutch Shell plc commonly known as Shell, is a British–Dutch multinational oil and gas company headquartered in the Netherlands and incorporated in the United Kingdom. It is one of the six oil and gas "supermajors" and the sixth-largest company in the world measured by 2016 revenues (and the largest based in Europe). Shell was first in the 2013 Fortune Global 500 list of the world's largest companies; in that year its revenues were equivalent to 84% of the Netherlands' $556 billion GDP.

Kiichiro Toyoda was a Japanese entrepreneur and the son of Toyoda Loom Works founder Sakichi Toyoda. His decision to take Toyoda Loom Works into automobile manufacturing created what would become Toyota Motor Corporation, the largest automobile manufacturer in the world. Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota, Aichi, Japan. In 2017, Toyota's corporate structure consisted of 364,445 employees worldwide and, as of October 2016, was the fifth-largest company in the world by revenue. As of 2016, Toyota is the world's largest automotive manufacturer. Toyota was the world's first automobile manufacturer to produce more than 10 million vehicles per year which it has done since 2012, when it also reported the production of its 200-millionth vehicle. As of July 2014, Toyota was the largest listed company in Japan by market capitalization (worth more than twice as much as #2-ranked SoftBank)and by revenue.

Samuel Moore Walton was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known for founding the retailers Walmart and Sam's Club. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. grew to be the world’s largest corporation by revenue as well as the biggest private employer in the world. At one point in his life, he was the richest man in America. Walmart Inc. operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores. Headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, the company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962 and incorporated on October 31, 1969. It also owns and operates Sam's Club retail warehouses. As of January 31, 2018, Walmart has 11,718 stores and clubs in 28 countries, operating under 59 different names. The company operates under the name Walmart in the United States and Canada, as Walmart de México y Centroamérica in Mexico and Central America, as Asda in the United Kingdom, as the Seiyu Group in Japan, and as Best Price in India. It has wholly owned operations in Argentina, C...

Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani was an Indian business tycoon who founded Reliance Industries in Bombay with his cousin. He appeared in The Sunday Times top 50 businessmen in Asia. Ambani took Reliance Industries public in 1977 and by 2002, the combined fortune of the family was $6 billion. Ambani died on 6 July 2002. In 2016, He was honored posthumously with the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honor for his contributions in trade and industry. Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is an Indian conglomerate holding company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Reliance owns businesses across India engaged in energy, petrochemicals, textiles, natural resources, retail, and telecommunications. Reliance is the most profitable company in India, the largest publicly traded company in India by market capitalization, and the second largest company in India as measured by revenue after the government-controlled Indian Oil Corporation. The company is ranked 203th on the Fort...

Gautam Shantilal Adani is an Indian billionaire businessman who is the chairman and founder of Adani Group. According to Forbes, his net worth is estimated to be $8.81 billion as of September 2017. He founded the Group in 1988, which now deals in businesses spanning coal trading, coal mining, oil & gas exploration, ports, logistics, power generation, agriculture, edible oils, transmission and gas distribution. Adani Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Its diversified businesses include resources, logistics, agribusiness and energy sectors. The Group is the largest port developer and operator in India with Mundra Port being a commercial port. It owns Fortune, India’s largest edible oil brand through a joint venture with Wilmar International in Singapore. The Flagship Company of the Adani group is Adani Enterprises Limited. In April 2014, it added the 4th unit of 660 MW at its Tiroda Power plant, making Adani power t...

Seth Shiv Narayan Birla is the founder of The Aditya Birla Group. The Aditya Birla Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate, headquartered in Worli, Mumbai, India. It operates in 40 countries with more than 120,000 employees worldwide. The group interests in sectors such as viscose staple fibre, metals, cement (largest in India), viscose filament yarn, branded apparel, carbonblack, chemicals, fertilisers, insulators, financial services, telecom, BPO and IT services. Now Kumar Mangalam Birla is the chairman of the Aditya Birla Group, one of the largest conglomerate corporations in India. He is also the chancellor of the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, and the chairman of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.

Jamshedji Nusserwanji Tata was an Indian pioneer industrialist, who founded the Tata Group, India's biggest conglomerate company. He was born to a Parsi Zoroastrian family in Navsari then part of the princely state of Baroda. He founded what would later become the Tata Group of companies. Tata is regarded as the legendary "Father of Indian Industry".