Aditya Birla Group is an Indian multinational

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, headquartered in Mumbai. It operates in 100 countries with more than 1,40,000 employees directly and indirectly. The group was founded by Seth Shiv Narayan Birla in 1857. The group has interests in viscose staple fibre, metals, cement (largest in India), viscose filament yarn, branded apparel, carbon black, chemicals, fertilisers, insulators, financial services and telecom.

History

It is one of India's largest corporate houses operating in 26 countries – India, Germany, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Italy, Hungary, United States, Canada, France, Australia, Egypt, Luxembourg, Philippines, the United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, Singapore, Myanmar, China, Thailand, Laos, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Bahrain, Vietnam and South Korea. The company is majorly engaged in the business of

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s, viscose filament yarn, viscose

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fiber, cement, fertilizers, chemicals, branded apparel, carbon black, sponge iron, telecom, IT services, financial services, insulators, and BPO.

Non-ferrous metals

Cement

Textile business

The Aditya Birla Group is the world's largest producer of Viscose staple fibre. It operates from India, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia and China. It owns the Birla Cellulose brand. Apart from viscose staple fibre, the group also owns acrylic fibre business in Thailand, viscose filament yarn businesses and spinning mills in India and Southeast Asia. The group has pulp and plantation interests in Canada and Laos. It also owns the Domsjö factory in Sweden which exports viscose. The

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is hoping to negotiate further investments in Sweden, in particular in the hyper-modern future biorefinery in the city of Örnsköldsvik. Its two companies i.e. Aditya Birla Nuvo Ltd and

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Ltd which is a subsidiary of

Grasim Industries Grasim Industries Limited is an Indian manufacturing company based in Mumbai. Since its inception in 1947 as a textile manufacturer, Grasim has diversified into textile raw materials like viscose staple fiber (VSF) and viscose filament yarn, c ...

are in textile business. Grasim Industries was recently placed 154th in a list of the world's best regarded firms compiled by Forbes.

Fashion

Telecom services

Idea Cellular was started as a joint venture of Aditya Birla Group with AT&T and the Tata Group, which was widely also known as, BATATA (Birla+AT+Tata). After an

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on the Indian stock markets, Idea Cellular now accounts for a third of the group's market capitalisation. The company is headquartered in Mumbai. On 31 August 2018 Idea Cellular completed its merger with

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and thereby became largest telecom company in terms of subscribers and revenue, surpassing Airtel.

Financial services

Aditya Birla Capital

Aditya Birla Capital (ABC) is the umbrella brand for all the financial services business of the Aditya Birla Group. The financial services arm of the group is headed by Ajay Srinivasan. Part of the group are: * Birla Sun Life Asset Management

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