Amara Raja Group

Last updated

Amara Raja Group
Company type Private
Industry Conglomerate
Founded1985;40 years ago (1985)
Founder Ramachandra Naidu Galla
Headquarters
Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh
,
India
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Products
RevenueIncrease2.svg₹17,000 crore (US$2.0 billion) (2024)
Number of employees
15850 (2023)
Subsidiaries
  • Amara Raja Batteries Ltd
  • Amara Raja Electronics Ltd
  • Amara Raja Power Systems Ltd
  • Amara Raja Infra (P) Ltd
  • Mangal Industries Ltd
  • Amara Raja Media and Entertainment Pvt Ltd
  • Log 9 Materials
Website www.amararaja.com

Amara Raja Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate, headquartered in Tirupati. The group has a presence in the automotive battery business, packaged foods and beverages, electronics products manufacturing, infrastructure sector, power system production and fabrication of sheet metal products and fasteners. [1] The Amara Raja Group is known for its automotive battery brand Amaron, the second largest selling automotive battery brand in India after Exide Industries. [2]

Contents

Amara Raja Group employs a workforce of more than 15,216 employees. Amara Raja Batteries was named on Asia's 'Best Under A Billion' 2010 list of companies compiled by Forbes magazine. [3]

History

A first generation entrepreneur, Ramachandra Naidu Galla, founded the Amara Raja Group of companies in 1985 and became the first CEO. The automotive batteries business unit commenced operations in 2001 with a joint technology venture with Johnson Controls, the world's largest manufacturer of automotive batteries. It pioneered the introduction of zero maintenance technology in India's automotive battery segment, the key differentiator in the Indian electric storage market.

The group was named after Jaydev's grandparents Amaravati and Rajagopal Naidu. [4]

Timeline

Johnson Controls Inc.

Amara Raja Giga Corridor

Amara Raja's first giga factory is a lithium-ion cell and battery pack manufacturing facility in Mahbubnagar, Telangana. The factory will have a initial capacity of 16 GWh for lithium cells and 5 GWh for battery packs. [9]

Amara Raja inks licensing deal with China's Gotion for lithium-ion cell manufacturing in June 2024. [10]

Amara Raja Group of companies

Brands

Awards

Amara Raja Batteries Limited Won Innovative Product/Service (GPIPSA) 2020 award in Engineering sector for the innovation Motor Cycle Valve Regulated Lead Acid Battery punched grid with state of art manufacturing facility. [11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Official website" . Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  2. ↑ "4 Companies that Make and Recycle Lead-acid Batteries | INN". Archived from the original on 14 September 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  3. ↑ "39 Indian cos in Forbes 'Best Under A Billion' Asia list". The Economic Times. 3 September 2010. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "Instead of looking for clues, stay clued in". Outlook Business. 23 January 2015. Archived from the original on 27 June 2018. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
  5. 1 2 "amarar.co.in". quanta.co.in. Archived from the original on 24 February 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
  6. ↑ "Amara Raja Batteries > Company History > Auto Ancillaries > Company History of Amara Raja Batteries – BSE: 500008, NSE: AMARAJABAT". Moneycontrol.com. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
  7. ↑ "Amara Raja completes $5m Log 9 investment". www.batteriesinternational.com. 22 September 2022. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
  8. ↑ "Amara Raja Batteries falls 5% on ending partnership with Johnson Controls". Business Standard India. 3 April 2019. Archived from the original on 11 April 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  9. ↑ "Amara Raja launches gigafactory in Telangana to produce lithium ion battery". www.business-standard.com. Archived from the original on 14 August 2024. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
  10. ↑ "Amara Raja partners with Gotion-InoBat-Batteries for LFP cell production". Autocar Professional. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
  11. ↑ "Innovative Product/Service (GPIPSA)". Archived from the original on 8 May 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2020.


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.