Vikram Lal (born 1942) is an Indian
billionaire businessman, the founder and former
CEO of
Eicher Motors
Eicher Motors Limited is an Indian multinational automotive company that manufactures motorcycles and commercial vehicles, headquartered in New Delhi. Eicher is the parent company of Royal Enfield, a manufacturer of middleweight motorcycles.
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, an Indian commercial vehicle manufacturer based in
New Delhi
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,
India
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. He has been a member of the board of directors of
The Doon School
The Doon School (informally Doon School or Doon) is a selective all-boys boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, which was established in 1935. It was envisioned by Satish Ranjan Das, a lawyer from Calcutta, who prevised a school mod ...
.
He studied
mechanical engineering
Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, an ...
at the
Technische Universität Darmstadt
The Technische Universität Darmstadt (official English name Technical University of Darmstadt, sometimes also referred to as Darmstadt University of Technology), commonly known as TU Darmstadt, is a research university in the city of Darmstadt ...
.
He joined Eicher India, the family company established by his father, in 1966. Eicher started as the first
tractor
A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery such as that used in agriculture, mining or construction. Most commo ...
manufacturer in India in 1959 under the company name Eicher Tractor Corporation of India
Pvt. Ltd., as a
joint venture
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with
German
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**Ge ...
tractor manufacturer
Eicher Eicher may refer to:
* Eicher (surname), a surname
* Eicher Motors (Eicher Group)
* Eicher tractor
* Eicher School, a school in the Faridabad district in the state of Haryana, India
* 3617 Eicher, a main-belt asteroid
See also
* Aicher
* Aich ...
, and eventually branched out into light commercial vehicles in 1986, and then into heavy vehicles.
His son
Siddhartha Lal
Siddhartha Vikram Lal (born October 1973) is an Indian businessman. He is the son of Vikram Lal, and a former chief executive officer (CEO) and the current managing director (MD) of Eicher Motors, a director of Eicher Goodearth Limited and chai ...
is now CEO of Eicher Motors.
His daughter Simran runs Good Earth.
Lal spends his retirement years volunteering at his own Goodearth Education Foundation.
References
External links
Interview by The Tribune- Vikram Lal, The Times of India
1942 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Delhi
Indian billionaires
The Doon School alumni
Punjabi people
Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni
Eicher Motors
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