Bombay Dyeing

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The Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Company Ltd
Type Public
BSE:  500020
NSE:  BOMDYEING
IndustryTextiles
Founded1879;144 years ago (1879)
HeadquartersNeville House, Ballard Estate, Mumbai, India
Key people
Nusli Wadia (Chairman)
Jeh Wadia
Products Bed linen, Towels, Furnishings
Parent Wadia Group
Website bombaydyeing.com

Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Company Limited is the flagship company of the Wadia Group, engaged primarily in the business of Textiles. Bombay Dyeing is one of India's largest producers of textiles. [1]

Its current chairman is Nusli Wadia. [2] In March 2011, Jehangir Wadia, the younger son of Nusli, was named the managing director of Wadia Group's flagship, Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Company, while the elder son, Ness Wadia resigned from the post of joint MD of the company. [3] Ratan Tata, the ex-chairman of Tata Group was on the board of directors till 2013. He resigned and Cyrus Mistry took over. [4]

Bombay Dyeing was often in the news, apart from other things, for various controversies surrounding its tussle with the late Dhirubhai Ambani of Reliance Industries Limited and with Calcutta-based jute baron late Arun Bajoria. [5]

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