About UsHeadquartered in Chennai, the Rs. 15,907 crores (USD 3.14 billion) Murugappa Group is one of India's leading business conglomerates. Market leaders in diverse areas of business including Engineering, Abrasives, Finance, General Insurance, Cycles, Sugar, Farm Inputs, Fertilizers, Plantations, Bio-products and Nutraceuticals, its 29 companies have manufacturing facilities spread across 13 states in India. The organization fosters an environment of professionalism and has a workforce of over 32,000 employees. The Group has forged strong joint venture alliances with leading international companies like DBS Bank, Mitsui Sumitomo, Foskor, Cargill and Groupe Chimique Tunisien has consolidated its status as one of the fastest growing diversified business houses in India. The business has its origins in 1900, when Dewan Bahadur A M Murugappa Chettiar established a money-lending and banking business in Burma (now Myanmar), which then spread to Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Vietnam. A century down the line, it has withstood enormous vicissitudes (including strategically moving its assets back to India and restarting from scratch in the '30s, before the Japanese invasion in World War II) to become one of the country's biggest industrial houses. Some of the country's best-known brands like BSA and Hercules in bicycles, Parrys Spirulina and Parrys Beta Carotene in nutraceuticals, Parrys Pure in sugar, Carborundum and Ajax in abrasives, Gromor and Paramfos in fertilisers, and many more come from the Murugappa Group. Focussing on its research and development innovations, it has registered 43 international patents. |
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