About 28 years ago as India was opening its economy to the world, 2 men were listening intently to the speech of then finance minister Dr.Manmohan Singh. Mr.Aditya Birla had long cherished the dream of integrating India to the world economy. He believed that the world was moving fast and it was the time that his beloved nation, the one which his family had served for more than 120 years, has to catch up. He had already built a huge empire by expanding to the South-Eastern nations, but there was more potential at home and they knew it. As the nation broke free of the shackles of License Raj, Aditya Birla along with son KM Birla were ready to begin the formation of one of India's biggest conglomerate.
Over the next 28 years, Aditya Birla Group grew from being a $1.6 billion in revenue to over $44 billion behemoth spread across 34 countries. Along the journey, the group expanded from being a commodity centered business to one of the leading players in retail, telecommunication, branded apparel, insulators, and financial services business. From making distances disappear with Idea (now Vodafone Idea), being a part of people’s dream home with UltraTech or styling India with its retail fashion brands the group soon became an inseparable part of lives of Indian people and beyond.
But growth was not the only aim of the Group as it firmly believed in the development of the communities in which it operated. Through its various programs, it reached about 5000 villages touching the lives of more than 7.5 million people. With its initiatives in healthcare, education and skill development Aditya Birla Group has contributed greatly to strengthening the new Bharat. A Bharat whose success story has just begun, a story of which Aditya Birla Group will be a crucial partner.
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