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RPSG Group
RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group (also known as RPSG Group) is an Indian multinational conglomerate headquartered in Kolkata. The founding was the result of a divestiture by RPG Enterprises in 2011. The Group's businesses include power and energy, carbon black manufacturing, retail, IT-enabled services, FMCG, media and entertainment, infrastructure and education. History Rama Prasad Goenka established RPG Enterprises in 1979 with Phillips Carbon Black, Asian Cables, Agarpara Jute, and Murphy India as the constituents. In 1981, the group acquired CEAT Tyres India. KEC International was acquired in 1982. In 1986, it acquired the music company 'Gramophone Company of India Ltd', now known as Saregama. Harrisons Malayalam, the tea and rubber plantations was acquired in 1988. In the following year, Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation ( CESC Limited), Raychem Technologies, and Spencer's were acquired. In 1993, Noida Power Company Limited (NPCL) was formed as a JV between the group ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose Stock, shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets. Instead, the Private equity, company's stock is offered, owned, traded or exchanged privately, also known as "over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter". Related terms are unlisted organisation, unquoted company and private equity. Private companies are often less well-known than their public company, publicly traded counterparts but still have major importance in the world's economy. For example, in 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for $1.8 trillion in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In general, all companies that are not owned by the government are classified as private enterprises. This definition encompasses both publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firstsource
Firstsource Solutions Limited is an Indian business process management company headquartered in Mumbai. It is owned by RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group, and listed on the BSE and NSE since 2007. Firstsource provides business process management in the banking and financial services, customer services, telecom and media, and healthcare sectors. Its clients include financial services, telecommunications and healthcare companies. Firstsource operates delivery and service centres in India, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Philippines, Mexico, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, Romania, Trinidad and Tobago, and Turkey. History Firstsource started its operations in 2001 as ICICI InfoTech Upstream Ltd, a business process outsourcing organisation wholly owned by ICICI Bank, India’s largest private financial services organisation. Its name was changed to Firstsource Solutions Limited in 2006. The same year, Firstsource opened a branch office in the Philippines. Firstsource ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KEC International
KEC International Limited (Kamani Engineering Corporation) is an Indian multinational company and also India's second largest manufacturer of electric power transmission towers and one of the largest Power transmission, Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) companies in the world. It is headquartered in Mumbai, India and is part of the RPG Group, engaged in EPC works for power transmission, distribution, railways, cables, solar, civil and smart Infrastructure. It has operations in the regions of India, SAARC, EAP, Africa, Middle East, and the Americas. History Ramjibhai Kamani founded Kamani Engineering Corporation (now KEC International) on 7 May 1945 which became the first electric power transmission company in Asia. It was engaged in the field of electric power transmissionPiramal, Gita; Herdeck, Margaret, ''India's industrialists, Vol. 1,'' Rev. ed. 1986, Three Continents Press, Washington, D.C. and railway electrification. In 1950, the company received an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CEAT (company)
CEAT Limited (formerly, Cavi Elettrici e Affini Torino) is an Indian multinational tyre manufacturing company owned by the RPG Group. It was established in 1924 in Turin, Italy and acquired by RPG Group in 1982. CEAT produces over 165 million tyres a year and manufactures tyres for passenger cars, two-wheelers, trucks and buses, light commercial vehicles, earth-movers, forklifts, tractors, trailers, and auto-rickshaws. The current capacity of CEAT tyres' plants is over 800 tonnes per day. The company has manufacturing plants in Halol (Gujarat), Butibori, Nagpur (Maharashtra), Bhandup, Mumbai (Maharashtra), Nashik (Maharashtra), Ambernath (Maharashtra), and Chennai (Tamilnadu). History The company was founded as Cavi Elettrici e Affini Torino (Electrical Cables and Allied Products of Turin) by Virginio Bruni Tedeschi in 1924, in Turin, Italy. On 10 March 1958, the company was incorporated as CEAT Tyres of India, in Mumbai. Initially, the company collaborated with the Tata G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rama Prasad Goenka
Rama Prasad Goenka (1 March 1930 – 14 April 2013) was the founder and chairman Emeritus of the RPG Group, a multi-sector Indian industrial conglomerate. Born in 1930, he was the eldest son of Keshav Prasad Goenka and grandson of Badridas Goenka, the first Indian to be appointed Chairman of the Imperial Bank of India (now the State Bank of India). His two younger brothers were Jagdish Prasad and Gouri Prasad. On Keshav Prasad Goenka's death, his businesses were split between the three brothers. Rama Prasad Goenka (better known as RP Goenka), established RPG Enterprises in 1979. He attended Presidency College of University of Calcutta in his home town of Kolkata and Harvard University in the United States. He was a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha, or upper house, of the Indian Parliament. Goenka was the chairman of the Board of Governors of International Management Institute and a trustee of the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund, the Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carbon Black
Carbon black (with subtypes acetylene black, channel black, furnace black, lamp black and thermal black) is a material produced by the incomplete combustion of coal tar, vegetable matter, or petroleum products, including fuel oil, fluid catalytic cracking tar, and ethylene cracking in a limited supply of air. Carbon black is a form of paracrystalline carbon that has a high surface-area-to-volume ratio, albeit lower than that of activated carbon. It is dissimilar to soot in its much higher surface-area-to-volume ratio and significantly lower (negligible and non-bioavailable) polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) content. Carbon black is used as a colorant and reinforcing filler in tires and other rubber products and as a pigment and wear protection additive in plastics, paints, and ink pigment. It is used in the EU as a food colorant when produced from vegetable matter (E153). The current International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) evaluation is that, "Carbon black i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conglomerate (company)
A conglomerate () is a type of multi-industry company that consists of several different and unrelated List of legal entity types by country, business entities that operate in various industries. A conglomerate usually has a Holding company, parent company that owns and controls many Subsidiary, subsidiaries, which are legally independent but financially and strategically dependent on the parent company. Conglomerates are often large and Multinational corporation, multinational corporations that have a global presence and a diversified portfolio of products and services. Conglomerates can be formed by merger and acquisitions, Corporate spin-off, spin-offs, or joint ventures. Conglomerates are common in many countries and sectors, such as Media (communication), media, Finance, banking, Energy industry, energy, mining, manufacturing, retail, Arms industry, defense, and transportation. This type of organization aims to achieve economies of scale, market power, Risk management, ris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multinational Corporation
A multinational corporation (MNC; also called a multinational enterprise (MNE), transnational enterprise (TNE), transnational corporation (TNC), international corporation, or stateless corporation, is a corporate organization that owns and controls the production of goods or services in at least one country other than its home country. Control is considered an important aspect of an MNC to distinguish it from international portfolio investment organizations, such as some international mutual funds that invest in corporations abroad solely to diversify financial risks. Most of the current largest and most influential companies are Public company, publicly traded multinational corporations, including Forbes Global 2000, ''Forbes'' Global 2000 companies. History Colonialism The history of multinational corporations began with the history of colonialism. The first multinational corporations were founded to set up colonial "factories" or port cities. The two main examples were the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manchester Originals
Manchester Originals are a franchise 100-ball cricket side based in the city of Manchester. The team represents the historic county of Lancashire in the newly founded The Hundred competition, beginning in the 2021 season, and playing at Old Trafford. History The announcement of the new eight-team men's and women's tournament series in 2019 was not without controversy, with the likes of Virat Kohli criticising the England and Wales Cricket Board for pursuing a shift away from Test cricket, while others argued the format should have followed the established and successful Twenty20 format. The ECB, however, decided it needed a unique format to draw crowds. It was announced in June 2019 that the side would be named the Manchester Originals, and would draw on players from Lancashire in the inaugural draft. It had been reported that other names such as the Manchester Bees and a Lancashire name were considered but rejected. Other regions such as Surrey and Kent were required to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durban's Super Giants
Durban's Super Giants is a South African professional Twenty20 franchise cricket team that first competed in the inaugural season of the SA20 tournament. The team is based in Durban and was formed in 2022. The team's home-ground is the Kingsmead Cricket Ground. The team is coached by Lance Klusener. The franchise is owned by the RPSG Group, which also owns Indian Premier League team Lucknow Super Giants. Franchise history In August 2022, Cricket South Africa announced the establishment of the SA20, a Twenty20 Cricket competition to be started in 2023. The teams for the competition, representing six different cities, including Durban, were put up on auction in South Africa in September 2022. The Durban franchise was purchased by RPSG Group RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group (also known as RPSG Group) is an Indian multinational conglomerate headquartered in Kolkata. The founding was the result of a divestiture by RPG Enterprises in 2011. The Group's businesses include power and ene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMI Bhubaneswar
International Management Institute, Bhubaneswar (IMI, Bhubaneswar) is a business school located in Bhubaneswar, the capital of eastern Indian state of Odisha. The new 16-acre campus commenced classes for the first batch of PGDM (Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management) approved by AICTE in August 2011. The institute is known to carry out research and development and Management Development Programme (MDPs) activities in association with various companies. Shri. Sanjiv Goenka (Chairman of RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group) is chairperson of IMI, Board of Governors and there are many other notable personalities associated with the institute. Prof. Ramesh Behl is the Director of the IMI, Bhubaneswar. It offers admission through CAT, XAT, CMAT, GMAT examinations. The first IMI business school campus was set up in Delhi in 1981. It was in 2010 that this RP-SG Group B-school decided to start two new IMI campuses in Bhubaneswar Kolkata Courses offered IMI Bhubaneswar offers the follo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMI Kolkata
International Management Institute (IMI) Kolkata is a private business school located in Kolkata, India. It was founded in 2010. The Institute started its operation in 2011 with its flagship Post Graduate Diploma in Management Programme accredited by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA). The first group of students at IMI Kolkata graduated in the year 2013. Campus placements at IMI Kolkata increased in the year 2014. In 2017, the Institute obtained the approval from All India Council for Technical Education to launch the Fellow Programme in Management (FPM), a Ph.D. level programme. IMI Kolkata's two-year full time PGDM programme is also accorded equivalence with Master of Business Administration (MBA) Degree by the Association of Indian Universities (AIU). History IMI Kolkata belongs to the IMI family of B-Schools in India. IMI came up with its first campus at New Delhi in the year 1981. IMI New Delhi was established in collaboration with IMI Geneva (now IMD Lausanne) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
