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The Wadia family [1] is a Parsi family from Surat, India, currently based in Mumbai, India. [2] The family rose to wealth in the mid-1700s as shipbuilders serving the British East India Company as the latter established its sway over India.
Wadia Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate, founded in Surat, headquartered in Mumbai. It was founded by Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia in 1736 and is the oldest company in India , with its subsidiary The Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation Limited , established in 1863, being the oldest publicly traded Indian company. [ 3 ]
Wadia family Jinnah family Nusli Neville Wadia (born 15 February 1944) is an Indian billionaire businessman and the chairman of the Wadia Group , an Indian conglomerate involved in the FMCG , textiles, and real estate industries, among others. [ 1 ]
Wadia was born into a Parsi family in Mumbai, India. His parents are businessman Nusli Wadia and former airhostess Maureen Wadia. [5] His father was the son of Neville Wadia and Dina Wadia. His grandfather was the son of Sir Ness Wadia who played an important role in turning the city of Bombay into one of the worlds largest cotton gin trading ...
Neville Ness Wadia (22 August 1911 – 31 July 1996) was an Indian businessman, philanthropist and a member of the Wadia family, an old Parsi family which, by the 1840s, was one of the leading forces in the Indian shipbuilding industry. Wadia was the last of India's aristocratic taipans, who expanded his family textile concern into one of India ...
Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia (Lowjee Nusserwanjee Wadia) (1702–1774) was a Parsi from Surat province of Gujarat in India and was a member of the Wadia family of shipwrights and naval architects. Lovji was founder of Wadia Group in 1736. [1] [2] Lovji Wadia secured contracts with the British East India Company to build ships and docks in Bombay in ...
Dina Wadia (née Jinnah; 15 August 1919 – 2 November 2017) was the only child of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, ... The Petit family disowned Dina's mother, Rattanbai, when ...
Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia FRS (6 October 1808 – 16 November 1877) was an Indian Parsi shipbuilder and engineer belonging to the Wadia ship building family. [1]He is noted for having been the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.