Housing Development Finance Corporation Limited (HDFC) is an Indian financial services company based in Mumbai, India. It is a major provider of finance for housing in India. It also has a presence in banking, life and general insurance, asset management, venture capital, realty, education, deposits and education loans.
Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani is an Indian business magnate, the chairman, managing director, and largest shareholder of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), a Fortune Global 500 company and India's most valuable company by its market value. According to Forbes magazine, he is the richest man in Asia and the 13th richest person in the world as of March 2019.
Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry is an Indian billionaire construction tycoon and chairman of Shapoorji Pallonji Group who is an Irish citizen since 2003. According to Forbes, his wealth is estimated to be US$20.1 billion as of January 2019. With his 18.3% stake in Tata Sons, he is the largest individual shareholder in India's largest private conglomerate, Tata Group, the primary shareholder of which is the Tata philanthropic Allied Trusts, with 66 per cent controlling interest.
Eureka Forbes Ltd is a consumer goods company based in Mumbai, India. It was founded in 1982 and is a part of the Shapoorji Pallonji Group. Its product portfolio consists of water purification, vacuum cleaning, air purification and home security solutions. The company has a current base of 15 million consumers with more than 450 locations and 18,000 dealers in India. It also has a global footprint across 35 countries.
Tata Sons Private Limited is the holding company of the Tata Group and holds the bulk of shareholding in the Tata group of companies including their land holdings across India, tea estates and steel plants.
Shiv Nadar is an Indian billionaire industrialist and philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman of HCL and the Shiv Nadar Foundation. Nadar founded HCL in the mid-1970s and transformed the IT hardware company into an IT enterprise over the next three decades by constantly reinventing his company's focus. In 2008, Nadar was awarded Padma Bhushan for his efforts in the IT industry. Nadar, nicknamed by friends as Magus, since the mid-1990s has focused his efforts on developing the educational system of India through the Shiv Nadar Foundation. Ramanichandran, a prolific Tamil romance novelist is his cousin.
Axis Bank is the third-largest bank in India offering a wide assortment of financial products. The bank has its head office in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It has 4,050 branches, 11,801 ATMs and 4,917 cash recyclers spread across the country as of 31 March 2019 and nine international offices. The bank employs over 55,000 people and had a market capitalization of ₹1.31 trillion (US$19 billion). It sells financial services to large and mid-size corporates, SME and retail businesses.
Forbes & Company Ltd., the erstwhile Forbes Gokak Ltd. based in Mumbai, is the oldest registered company in India and one of the oldest in the world, which is in the business. It was established in the year 1767, by a Scottish gentleman John Forbes Esq. of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Over the past few years, the management of the company moved from the Forbes family to the Campbells to the Tata Group and now finally to the well known Shapoorji Pallonji Group; leaders in infrastructure, construction and real estate businesses, amongst many others. Forbes & Company Limited has three main businesses, namely:
- Engineering
- Shipping & Logistics
- Business Automation
The Barakhambha Road Metro Station is located on the Blue Line of the Delhi Metro. It was constructed by the Shapoorji Pallonji Group.
Cyrus Pallonji Mistry is an Irish businessman of Indian origin who was the chairman of Tata Group, an Indian business conglomerate, between 2012 and 2016. He was the sixth chairman of the group, and only the second to not bear the surname Tata. In mid-2012, he was chosen by a selection panel to head the Tata Group and took charge in December the same year. On 24 October 2016, the board of Tata Group's holding company, Tata Sons, voted to remove Mistry from the post of chairman; former chairman Ratan Tata then returned as interim chairman, and Natarajan Chandrasekaran was named as the new chair a few months later. He owns an 18.4% stake in Tata Sons, through his firm, Cyrus Investments Pvt. Ltd. In 2018, his net worth was approximately $10 billion. He was a member of the National Integration Council.
Raheja Developers Limited, (RDL), formerly Raheja Developers Private Limited, is an Indian real estate development company with its headquarters in Delhi, India.
Aditya Puri is the Managing Director of HDFC Bank, India's largest private sector bank. He assumed this position in September 1994, with a vision to create a "World Class Indian Bank". Puri is the longest-serving head of any private bank in the country. India Today magazine ranked him #24th in India's 50 Most Powerful People of 2017 list.
Keki M. Mistry is the vice chairman and CEO of Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC).
Events in the year 1866 in India.
Apollo Munich Health Insurance Company Ltd. is a private sector health insurance company in India. Founded on 8 August 2007, it is a joint venture between the Apollo Hospitals group and Munich Health, one of the three business segments of Munich Re; a leading reinsurance company based in Germany.
Tata Textile Mills was textile mills business of Tata group with head office at Bombay. It consisted of four textile mills; namely, Central India Mills also popularly known as Empress Mills at Nagpur, the Svadeshi Mills at Bombay, the Tata Mills at Bombay and the Advance Mills at Ahmedabad. The four mills that, for several decades, produced and sold fabrics under the much reputed brand name of Tata Textiles.
The Oman Convention and Exhibition Centre is a major business and tourism facility owned and developed by the Oman Tourism Development Company and located in the Seeb area of Oman.
Mughal-e-Azam is a Broadway-style musical based on the 1960 Bollywood film Mughal-e-Azam, directed by K. Asif and produced by Shapoorji Pallonji. The musical was directed by Feroz Abbas Khan and produced by Shapoorji Pallonji Group.
