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Aditya Birla Group India
Aditya Birla Group is India's first truly multinational corporation. The group has an annual turnover of US$ 24 billion, market capitalisation of US$ 23 billion, and has over 100,000 employees belonging to over 25 different nationalities on its rolls. Aditya Birla Group has presence in 20 countries - India, Thailand, Laos, Indonesia, Philippines, Egypt, Canada, Australia, China, USA, UK, Germany, Hungary, Brazil, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Malayasia and Korea. The group has diversified business interests and is dominant player in all the sectors in which it operates such as viscose staple fibre, metals, cement, viscose filament yarn, branded apparel, carbon black, chemicals, fertilisers, insulators, financial services, telecom, BPO and IT services.

The origins of Aditya Birla Group can be traced back to the 19th century when Seth Shiv Narayan Birla started trading in cotton in the town of Pilani, Rajasthan. In the early part of the 20th century, Group's founding father, Ghanshyamdas Birla, expanded the group and set up industries in critical sectors such as textiles and fibre, aluminium, cement and chemicals. In 1969, Aditya Birla, the then Chairman of the Group, put the group on the global map. He set up 19 companies outside India, in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Egypt. Under Aditya Birla's leadership, the group attained new heights and it became world's largest producer of viscose staple fibre, the largest refiner of palm oil, the third largest producer of insulators and the sixth largest producer of carbon black. After Aditya Birla's demise his son Kumar Mangalam Birla took over the charge of the group and under his leadership the group has sustained the numero uno position in the sectors in which it operates.

Group Companies of Aditya Birla Group

Grasim: Grasim Industries Limited was established as a textiles manufacturer in 1948. Today, Grasim deals in Viscose Staple Fibre (VSF),...