Afcons Infrastructure

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Afcons Infrastructure Limited
FormerlyAsia Foundations and Construction Limited
Company type Private
Industry Infrastructure
Founded1959
Headquarters,
India
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Shapoor Pallonji Mistry (Chairman)
RevenueIncrease2.svg12,654 crore (US$1.5 billion) (FY23) [1]
Increase2.svg410 crore (US$49 million) (FY23) [1]
Parent Shapoorji Pallonji Group [2]
Website afcons.com

Afcons Infrastructure Limited is an Indian multinational construction and engineering company based in Mumbai. The company provides infrastructure services and is involved in the construction of infrastructure projects such as viaducts, flyovers, metros, bridges, pipelines, roads, ports, barrages, oil and gas projects etc. [3] [4]

Indian business conglomerate Shapoorji Pallonji Group acquired Afcons from ICICI Bank in 2000. [5] In 2006, there was widespread speculation that Afcons would go public in an IPO but the company did not go through with it. [6]

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