Hailing from Karungal in Kanyakumari district, Mano Thangaraj is well aware of the grassroot problems. His connect with politics comes from his college days...
Metrics, metrics and more metrics. The challenge for people who work in education worldwide. How does one differentiate between outputs and outcomes? The hardest...
A Danish company LJM, recently inaugurated its new manufacturing plant at Oragadam, near Chennai. The company manufactures hydraulic cylinders for wind turbines. LJM will...
HIS NET WORTH WAS HIS NETWORK
HAILING FROM A village near Pudukottai, Bala obtained his post-graduate degree in Statistics/Mathematics from Annamalai University, served as a...
Another iconic family-run business of Chennai, the $ 5 billion turnover Murugappa group, is repositioning the leadership of unit companies aligning these with families. Till recently the group had the senior most family member designated as chairman of the group: in the early stages under AMM Murugappa Chettiar (1902-1965) the group entered into a number of foreign collaborations and emerged a large light engineering conglomerate that was nurtured by AMM, his younger brother AMM Arunachalam and their nephew M V Arunachalam. The chairmanship passed on, in due course, to AMM Arunachalam and thence to M V Arunachalam. During the tenure of MVA, the group expanded through acquisitions of the two-centuries’ old EID Parry. This helped it diversify activities to sanitaryware, fertilizers, sugar, confectionary … The baton passed to MVA’s brother M V Subbiah.
