Why Aditya Birla Group is big in your life?
I have been an active user of Aditya Birla Group’s varied product portfolio for a quite some time. First time I came across this brand, when I visited Delhi’s Laxminarayan Temple about 4 years ago which is owned by this group. Since then, I became aware about their business & their products became a part of my journey.
I have a fond memory about my first experience with this brand. It was a time of my engineering placements when I was looking for a budget friendly shirt & ended up buying from Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail outlet & got placed in the very first interview. Hence I associate this brand with my success. Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail is India’s largest fashion company that sells 3 garments every second. It owns Clothing retail chains Pantaloons & popular brands like Louis Philippe, Allen Solly, Peter England, Van Heusen having 2500+ brand outlets across country.
I am also one of the happy subscribers of the India's largest telecom operator Vodafone Idea Limited owned by Aditya Birla Group. Apart from the products that I mentioned they have tried their luck in variety of businesses & also became a market leader in many of them. They are World’s biggest manufacturer of Carbon Black: a material used in Tyres & Inks, owns India’s largest manufacturer of Cement: Ultratech Cement, owns the largest textile mill of Philippines, owns the fifth world’s largest acrylic fibre manufacturer: Thai Acrylic Fibre, owns World’s largest aluminium rolling company: Hindalco and became world’s second largest Aluminium company.
They have a finance arm, Aditya Birla Capital Ltd which specializes into domains like Housing finance, NBFC lending, Life & health insurance, insurance advisory, Asset management, private equity through various related subsidiaries. They also eases banking services through their payment bank which offers innovative banking features like mobile number as bank account number, ‘One Bank PIN’ across wallet/savings account/BHIM ABPB UPI, cashless transactions and interactive bank statements.
The business empire was started by a small cotton trader, Shiv Narayan Birla way back in 1860’s. Now the Birla group has transformed into multiple companies located in over 35 countries & together has more employees than MNCs like Apple, J&J.
This group has not only founded massive companies but also build various institutions & landmarks that include libraries ( M P Birla library, Mumbai), planetarium ( Birla
planetarium, Kolkata), university ( Birla Global University, Odisha), technology & science institutes (BITS Pilani), research institutes (M. P. Birla Institute of Fundamental Research), Textile institute (Technological Institute, Bhiwani) & over 15 temples.
They believe in giving back to the society. They operate one of world’s largest Aluminium can recycling plant in Kentuky. The family operates over 20 hospitals & conducts 5,000+ free medical camps every year in rural India & also runs 56 schools & provides free education to over 20,000+ children every year.