Aditya Vikram Birla Biography

Kolkata, West Bengal-born

Died on: October 1, 1995

Career: Industrialist

Nationality: Indian

Aditya Birla (1944-1995), a well-known Indian industrialist and the Aditya Birla Group, India's largest multinational corporations- one of the former president. Aditya Vikram Birla Birla family business was born in the formidable and legendary GD Birla, one of India's most outstanding industrialists and grandson of the founder of the giant Birla industrial empire. In addition to being a successful business tycoon, he also led a well-balanced family life, his wife, son, Kumar Mangalam, current president, and a daughter.

Aditya Birla, completed his formal education at St. Xavier's College, graduating in science from Calcutta, and then the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning a degree in chemical engineering from Boston. On his return to India in 1965, most of his undertakings Aditya either successful or profitable turnover expanded with leading trade and industry, has entered the world. His first venture was set up in Kolkata Eastern Spinning Mills. It sank back on track and put rayon and textile business has good profit. His next few ventures, liquidity and crisis management, with the blue chip company in a booming India gas ill Indo Gulf Fertilisers and Chemicals Ltd to expand and perfect conversion of his success saw. He then went on in 1983 over a series of industrial and commercial success, however, following the death of his grandfather, he had a big role to play. In the next 12 years, the Aditya Birla Birla empire, one of India's largest business conglomerates, making yourself and become one of the leading traders in India expanded. Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines and Malaysia enormous profits reaped its foreign joint industrial ventures, the largest multinational company is being set up by a resident Indian industrialist. He said that even the Central Bank of India and served as the Director of Air India.

His dominion spread throughout India and Southeast Asia, the Aditya Birla industries of textile, chemicals, engineering goods, fertilizer, and has been involved in palm oil production. India, Hindalco and Grasim (the largest producer of viscose staple fibers) (the world's largest low-cost producers of aluminum in the middle of being) between households in manufacturing, much brighter, reflecting the sheer talent of the industrial wizard . An elite businessman and industrialist Aditya Birla determination and innovative principles carved out a niche for India, world map, put him on the world's largest companies.

Aditya Birla died suddenly aged 51, Baltimore 1 st October, 1995, in the cause of prostrate cancer. For his enormous contribution, not many in 1990 as the "Business Man of the Year" was announced that Aditya was an accomplished artist himself, in memory of him, Aditya Vikram Birla Kalashikar prize awarded to painters and sculptors is done. He always will be remembered for making India's first global corporation.

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