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Britannia Industries Limited is an Indian multinational food products company, which sells biscuits, breads and dairy products.Founded in 1892, it is one of India's oldest existing companies and currently part of the Wadia Group headed by Nusli Wadia. [2]
Under her direction, Britannia's revenue tripled to $841 million. [5] Bali was awarded the "Business Woman of the Year" Award at the 2009 Economic Times Awards. [6] In 2009, she founded the Britannia Nutrition Foundation which combats child malnutrition through the distribution of fortified biscuits to Indian schoolchildren.
J. B. Mangharam & Company was a maker of biscuits in India. It was founded in 1919. [1] [2] It was named after three brothers Jeevan Das, Bal Chand and Mangha Ram Pamnani.Their factory in Sakkur also made candy and medicines. During the World War II, they obtained a contract to make special "energy biscuits" for the British Army. [3]
Rajan Pillai (1947 – 7 July 1995) was an Indian businessman from Kerala, popularly known as the Biscuit Baron.He was to be sentenced to a possible 14-year imprisonment on 23 counts of breach of trust and one of cheating-by the Singapore courts, but died in custody four days after his arrest, largely because he was denied medical treatment while in custody; [2] the subsequent investigations ...
In 1991, the group set up the Britania biscuit manufacturing in Kampala. In 1996, the group acquired the company Uganda Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (UPL, manufacturer of medicine in Uganda, from the government in 1993), and sold 30% of it to Libyan investors in 2016. [4] From 1990 to 2016, the group invested over $75 million in development. [5]
Ness Nusli Wadia (born 30 May 1971) is an Indian businessman. Wadia is the managing director of Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation, a company which has holdings in most of the Wadia Group subsidiaries, including an indirect majority stake in Britannia Industries.
Two locations closed abruptly in November after Big Biscuit founder Dan Gerson died “unexpectedly,” according to a press release. Gerson independently owned the restaurants at 16506 E. U.S ...
It is best known for the biscuit brand Parle-G, [2] [3] which is the best-selling biscuit brand in the world, according to a 2011 Nielsen report. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] As per Forbes list of India’s 100 richest tycoons, dated OCTOBER 09, 2024, Vijay Chauhan & family is ranked 34th with a net worth of $8.3 Billion.