While travelling through Oragadam, one is sure to witness a line of factories buzzing with manufacturing activity. They produce products ranging from motor cycles,...
Dr Vibha Dhawan’s association with TERI dates back to 1985. Her interests also rest in environment and sustainability research and she was instrumental in...
In a recent interview with IE, Rajan Govind (RG), Director, BES Consultants, delves into critical aspects of the industry, addressing challenges, sustainable practices and...
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.
