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The US$ 4 bn Avantha Group, led by Chairman & CEO Mr. Gautam Thapar, is one of India’s leading business conglomerates.
The genesis of the Avantha Group lies in the erstwhile Thapar Group, amongst India's top ten business houses, founded by Lala Karam Chand Thapar in Calcutta (now Kolkata) over eighty years ago. India’s second largest producer of coal prior to coal nationalisation, the Thapar Group also had interests in sugar, paper, chemicals, textiles, banking, insurance, and engineering products and services. The Thapar Group went on to establish some of India’s most respected institutions, including Oriental Bank of Commerce, Oriental Insurance and Thapar University, to name a few.
The partition of the Thapar Group’s assets amongst its family members was completed at the turn of the century. Avantha is a thriving consolidation of the old conglomerate and Mr. Gautam Thapar represents the third generation of the illustrious business family, the baton having been passed on to him by his uncle, Mr. L.M. Thapar and his father, Mr. B.M. Thapar.
The group of companies run by Mr. Gautam Thapar were rebranded as Avantha, and the new identity launched worldwide on 15th November 2007.
Today, the Avantha Group has business interests in diverse areas, including power transmission and distribution equipment and services, paper and pulp, food processing, energy and infrastructure, farm forestry, chemicals, IT and ITES. With a global footprint, the Group operates in 90 countries with more than
25,000 employees.
Through Salient, the Avantha Group leverages its brand equity and process driven manufacturing expertise in high-end BPO services in India and abroad.
Avantha Group of
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Ballarpur Industries
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India’s largest writing & printing paper company
- Seven manufacturing plants in India & Malaysia
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Crompton Greaves Limited
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Manufacturing base in India, Belgium, Ireland, Canada, USA,
Indonesia & Hungary
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140 sales offices worldwide
www.cgglobal.com
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The Global Green Company
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Customer base in 50 countries
- Sourcing base in India, Belgium, Hungary, The Netherlands, Turkey & Germany
www.globalgreengroup.com
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Solaris ChemTech
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India’s largest manufacturer of bromine and bromine chemicals
- Flame retardants plant built with technology patented in Korea, China & USA
www.solarischemtech.com
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Avantha Power & Infrastructure
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Four captive thermal power plants
- Certified green building material
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Avantha Technologies
- Software manpower resource provider
- Engineering solution practice (ESP) provider
www.avanthatechnologies.com
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