Ashok Todi
Ashok Todi (born 1958) is an Indian industrialist, heading the Kolkata-based Lux Industries group, a Rs. 120-billion plus company which is the market leader in India of the inner wear garment segment. Career Ashok Todi was born into a Hindu Marwadi business family, the son of industrialist Giridhari Lal Todi. Lux Industries Limited Lux Industries Limited is an innerwear company of India with three brands in its portfolio - Lux Innerwear, GenX Style Inners, and ONN Premium Inners.http://media.wix.com/ugd/50d0b5_a21c067c8f163bfb104bdb2523ed2dec.pdf Lux Cozi is the main brand of Lux Industries Limited. The company launched a consumer coupon scheme in 1992 called "Mazedar Mauka". From 1 product, the company's product range has expanded to more than 150 products today. Ashok is: *The Chairman of Lux Industries Limited; *Director of Biswanath Hosiery Mills Limited; and, *Director of Todi Hosiery Limited Todi took over as the chairman of the company on 1 October 2007. By a quirk of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bhawanipur College
Bhawanipur Education Society College (or Bhawanipur College) is a private, co-educational, undergraduate college affiliated with the University of Calcutta in Kolkata, India. It is at 5, Lala Lajpat Rai Sarani (Elgin Road) of the Bhowanipore area of Kolkata. History The college was started in 1966 for boys and girls by the efforts and donation of money and land by Gujarati community living in Kolkata. The Six-storied building was constructed with major donations from other city-based Gujarati industrialists and businessman. The college is managed through The Bhawanipur Gujarati Education Society. The Society enjoys the status of linguistic Minority Educational Institutions under Article 30(1) of the Constitution of India. It grew out of a school named J. J. Ajmera High School, established in 1928, which became a secondary school in 1958 and later a higher secondary school, founded in 1960 and run by the same trust. The college was known as Bhawanipur Gujarati Education Society C ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lux Industries
Lux industries, previously known as Biswanath Hosiery Mills, is an Indian underwear company headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Its offerings include various kinds of hosiery products for men, women and children. It is one of the oldest underwear companies in India. History Lux Industries was set up as the Biswanath Hosiery Mills in 1957 by the late Girdharilalji Todi. Girdharilalji's sons took over the operating responsibilities in 1964. The next 20 years saw the company growing 100 times in size through a series of marketing and manufacturing innovations. This included launching the Consumer Coupon Scheme in 1992 (Mazedar Mauka). In the same year, Lux became the first company in the industry to use celebrity brand ambassadors. In 1992, Lux launched their first television commercial with the famous ''yeh andar ki baat hai'' tagline. The following year saw the company launch their export operations and quickly established a strong presence overseas, with offices in th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Marwari People
The Marwari or Marwadi (Hindi: मारवाड़ी, Urdu: مارواڑی) are an Indian ethnic group that originate from the Rajasthan region of India. Their language, also called Marwari, comes under the umbrella of Rajasthani languages, which is part of the Western Zone of Indo-Aryan languages. They have been a highly successful business community, first as inland traders during the era of Rajput kingdoms, and later also as investors in industrial production and other sectors. Today, they control many of the country's largest media groups. Although spread throughout India, historically they have been most concentrated in Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, Nagpur, Pune and the hinterlands of central and eastern India. Etymology The term ''Marwari'' once referred to the area encompassed by the former princely state of Marwar, also called the Jodhpur region of southwest Rajasthan in India. The Jodhpur region includes the present districts of Barmer, Jalore, Jodhpur, Nagaur ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lux Cozi
Lux Cozi is an Indian brand of men's underwear, part of the Lux Industries Ltd (LIL) group based in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. The brand turnover is about ₹200 crores, mostly from rural India. The Lux Innerwear brand was launched by LIL in 1963. Today, it is sold in 5 lakh retail outlets across India. Bollywood associations The Lux brand has been endorsed by the Bollywood actors Shahrukh Khan, Sunny Deol and Suniel Shetty. Indian television personalities Aman Verma and Shekhar Suman & Ali Asgar as well as actor-director Satish Kaushik have also endorsed Lux Cozi products. Sunny Deol and Sushant Singh Rajput have also endorse this brand. Varun Dhawan has been recently chosen to be the brand ambassador of Lux Cozi in 2017. In September 2022, Lux Cozi signed Saurav Ganguly as new brand ambassador. IPL associations Lux Cozi sponsors the Indian Premier League of cricket. In the IPL season 5, Lux Cozi was an official sponsor of the Kings XI Punjab team. It also had its ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rizwanur Rahman
Rizwanur Rahman (1977 – 21 September 2007) was a 30 year-old computer graphics trainer who was driven into committing suicide according to the Central Bureau of Investigation.Rizwanur death was suicide . CBI-India, ''The Times of India'' Love and marriage Rizwanur Rahman, a middle-class man, met the 23-year-old Priyanka Todi, daughter of , owner of Lux Cozi, at the graphics training school where he taught. They began an affair, which was kept secret from their families.[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Businesspeople From Kolkata
A businessperson, businessman, or businesswoman is an individual who has founded, owns, or holds shares in (including as an angel investor) a private-sector company. A businessperson undertakes activities (commercial or industrial) for the purpose of generating cash flow, sales, and revenue by using a combination of human, financial, intellectual, and physical capital with a view to fueling economic development and growth. History Prehistoric period: Traders Since a "businessman" can mean anyone in industry or commerce, businesspeople have existed as long as industry and commerce have existed. "Commerce" can simply mean "trade", and trade has existed through all of recorded history. The first businesspeople in human history were traders or merchants. Medieval period: Rise of the merchant class Merchants emerged as a "class" in medieval Italy (compare, for example, the Vaishya, the traditional merchant caste in Indian society). Between 1300 and 1500, modern accountin ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1958 Births
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Living People
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Indian Billionaires
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Bhawanipur Education Society College Alumni
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Bhabanipur, Bhawanipur, Bhowanipore, or Bhowanipor may refer to the following places: India West Bengal * Bhowanipore, a locality in Kolkata * Bhabanipur, Purba Medinipur Bihar * Bhawanipur, Bihar * Bhawanipur (community development block) * Bhawanipur Rajdham Uttar Pradesh * Bhawanipur, Sareni, a village in Raebareli district * Rampur Bhawanipur Bangladesh * Bhabanipur, Rajshahi Division * Bhabanipur Shaktipeeth, in Bogra District ** Bhabanipur Kali Mandir, a temple in Sherpur Upazila of Bogra District Nepal * Bhawanipur, Sunsari * Bhawanipur, Janakpur * Bhawanipur Jitpur * Bhawanipur, Parsa * Bhawanipur, Sagarmatha * Ganj Bhawanipur * Simara Bhawanipur Simara Bhawanipur is a village development committee in Rautahat District in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |