Aditya Birla Group an Indian multinational serving millions.
Established in the year 1857, Aditya Birla Group has successfully managed to employ more than 120,000 employees worldwide. It started as a Jute manufacturing company and has spread across various segments like cements, metals, chemicals, fertilisers, telecom and other services. It is the third largest private sector conglomerate with revenues of approximately US$44.3 billion. Its non-ferrous metals business Hindalco industries entered into an agreement with a Canadian Company Novelis to produce the world’s largest rolled-aluminium. Ultra Tech Cement, acquired from L&T is India’s largest cement business. It’s also the world’s largest producer of Viscose staple fibre. The group sells in-house brands such as Louis Philippe, Allen Solly, Van Heusen, and Peter England and operates a multi brand fashion retail chain Pantaloons. Idea Cellular was started as a joint venture with the AT&T and the Tata Group. It merged with Vodafone India and thereby became largest telecom company in terms of subscribers and revenue, surpassing Airtel. Aditya Birla Capital is the umbrella brand for all the financial services business of The Aditya Birla Group. In a nutshell, Aditya Birla Group has become an essential part of not just but everyone’s life. From providing clothing and accessories to building houses and laying down roads for a common man every necessity is being met by this big conglomerate and has been essential in transforming the lives of millions of people by employing them and helping them grow.
Challenges and how I overcame them.
The biggest challenge that I ever faced is starting something new and convincing people to join your initiative. This was during my third year of my college when our batch was the first to start out college fest. The biggest challenge was to get everyone on board and convince them to take part in the fest. The initial challenge was to get investors for our fest. It took a lot of hard work to convince people to take part in the venture and make it successful. A lot of efforts were put in the pre planning of things where ideas were discussed and it was really important to jot down all the details and build a framework and a hierarchy based on which the entire team functioned. The budgeting and all the other tasks were discussed at depth and the analysis of which made it easier for committees to work on. The next big challenge that I overcame myself personally is my shy nature. The fear of public speaking is something that I always wanted to overcome. This is something that I overcame by taking part in our college annual day functions and being the lead anchor of our college annual day celebrations. From being a really shy person to hosting the college annual day function, the time spent learning and hosting 3000 people in itself was a very big challenge. Not just hosting but taking part in the core committee helped me ease out the fear of speaking and involving with a wide range of people.