The Deming Prize is the longest-running national quality award and one of the highest awards in the world. It recognizes both individuals for their contributions to the field of quality and businesses that have successfully implemented exemplary systems that promote quality of goods and services. It was established in 1951 to honor W. Edwards Deming who contributed greatly to Japan’s proliferation of statistical quality control after World War II. His teachings helped Japan build its foundation by which the level of Japan’s product quality has been recognized as the highest in the world, was originally designed to reward Japanese companies for major advances in quality improvement. Over the years it has grown, under the guidance of the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) to where it is now also available to non-Japanese companies, albeit usually operating in Japan, and also to individuals recognized as having made major contributions to the advancement of quality. The awards ceremony is broadcast every year in Japan on national television.
TVS Motor Company is an Indian multinational motorcycle manufacturer headquartered in Chennai. It is the third-largest motorcycle company in India by revenue. The company has annual sales of three million units and an annual production capacity of over four million vehicles. TVS Motor Company is also the second largest two-wheeler exporter in India with exports to over 60 countries.
The automotive industry in India is the world's fourth-largest by production and valuation as per 2022 statistics. As of 2023, India is the 3rd largest automobile market in the world in terms of sales.
T. S. Soundaram Ramachandran was an Indian physician, social reformer and politician was the daughter of T. V. Sundaram Iyengar, the founder of T V Sundaram Iyengar and Sons Limited, popularly known as TVS Group of companies, one of India's largest industrial conglomerates. She was married young barely at the age of 14 in 1918, her husband Dr. Soundararajan, encouraged her to study. But when he died when she was in her teens, it was her parents who urged her to continue with her studies. It was at Lady Hardinge Medical College in Delhi that she did her medicine degree.
Thirukkurungudi Vengaram Sundram Iyengar was an Indian industrialist and automobile pioneer. In 1911, he founded T. V. Sundram Iyengar & Sons, a bus company which later diversified into automobile production and emerged as the parent company of the TVS Group, one of India's biggest business conglomerates. 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. Srinivasan. He laid foundation for road transport industry in the erstwhile Madras Presidency through the state's first bus service. The TVS group he thus started now extends from motor industry, auto services to financial services.
The TVS School was established in 1972 with 40 students. It provides education to the inhabitants of Madurai and its surroundings in Tamil Nadu, India. It is governed by a council named Lakshmi Vidya Sangham, constituted by the descendants of the founder of the TVS Group, T. V. Sundaram Iyengar. The school has a strength of about 4,907 pupils, 201 teaching staff and additional parent tutors. The school functions in two shifts for all classes from the lower kindergarten to Std XII. There is also a separate nursery school near the main campus. It is one of the top schools of madurai.
Chennai is nicknamed the "Detroit of Asia" due to the presence of major automobile manufacturing units and allied industries around the city.
TVS Supply Chain Solutions is an Indian multinational transportation, logistics and warehousing company. It provides supply chain management services to customers in the automotive, consumer goods, defence and utility sectors in India, the United Kingdom, Europe and the US. It is part of the TVS Group of companies.
Venu Srinivasan is an Indian billionaire industrialist who is the chairman emeritus of two-wheeler manufacturer TVS Motor Company and auto components manufacturer TVS Holdings. In addition, he serves on the board of Tata Sons and as one of the vice-chairmen of Tata Trusts. He received the Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian award, in January 2020.
Lakshmi School was founded in June 2000 with an initial intake of 159 students. As of 2012, the student numbers are in excess of 2100. It is situated Sivagangai Road in the Madurai district of Tamil Nadu, India.
Sundaram Medical Foundation is a community-centered, non-profit, trust hospital established in 1990 by S. Rangarajan. Sundaram Medical Foundation's main hospital premises operate at Shanthi Colony in the neighborhood of Anna Nagar, while an outpatient facility operates at Elango Salai Rd., Mogappair West, Ambattur Industrial Estate, Chennai.
TVS Holdings Ltd, formerly known as Sundaram-Clayton Ltd, is an Indian automotive components company, based in Chennai. Part of the TVS Group, it makes aluminium and magnesium castings for the automotive industry. It was the flagship company of the TVS Group before being overtaken by its subsidiary TVS Motor Company.
Suresh Krishna, an Indian industrialist, is the Chairman of Sundram Fasteners Limited (SFL), and the Chairman of the holding company, T V Sundram Iyengar & Sons Pvt Ltd.
Equitas Small Finance Bank is a small finance bank founded in 2016 as a microfinance lender. The Bank has its headquarters in Chennai, and is a subsidiary of holding company Equitas Holdings Ltd.
Lakshmi Venu is an Indian businesseswoman and the managing director of Sundaram-Clayton. She is an heiress to the Chennai-based conglomerate TVS Group, which was established by her great-grandfather T. V. Sundaram Iyengar.
TVS Emerald Haven Realty Ltd is an Indian real estate company, based in Chennai, India. It was founded by and as the real estate arm of the TVS Group in 2012 and is headquartered in the Indian city of Chennai. TVS Emerald began its foray into real estate by successfully completing and delivering their first project, TVS Emerald Green Hills, in Perungalathur, ahead of schedule. It has since then announced several residential project in Chennai.
Sundaram Finance Limited is an Indian financial and investment service provider, based in Chennai. The company offers consumer loans, wealth management, commercial finance, investment banking, private equity, treasury advisory, credit cards and infrastructure finance, among others.
Royapettah is a neighbourhood of Chennai, India.
Sudarshan Venu is an Indian entrepreneur and business executive, currently serving as the Managing Director of TVS Motor Company, a position he assumed in May 2022.
US$8.5 billion (2019)