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Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Company Limited is an Indian textile company headquartered in Mumbai, India. [1] It operates as a subsidiary of the Wadia Group and is one of India's largest producers of textiles. [2] [better source needed] Its current chairman is Nusli Wadia. [3]
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]
The Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation Limited (BBTC) is an Indian trading company based in Mumbai owned by the Wadia Group. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It was formed in 1863 by the Wallace Brothers of Scotland . It is India's oldest publicly traded company , [ 6 ] [ 7 ] and was established to engage in the Burmese tea business through the initial step of ...
It is one of Sri Lanka's busiest commercial areas, where a huge number of wholesale and retail shops, buildings, commercial institutions and other organisations are located. [ 2 ] The main market segment is designed like a gigantic crossword puzzle, where one may traverse through the entire markets from dawn till dusk, but not completely cover ...
Teejay Lanka PLC formerly known as Textured Jersey Lanka is a knitted fabric manufacturer in Sri Lanka [2] and is one of the constituents of the S&P Sri Lanka 20 Index of the Colombo Stock Exchange. The company is a supplier to the brands such as Nike , PVH , L Brands , Marks & Spencer , Decathlon , Lidl , and Calzedonia .
The Great Bombay Textile Strike was a textile strike called on 18 January 1982 by the mill workers of Mumbai under trade union leader Dutta Samant. The purpose of the strike was to obtain a bonus payment and an increase in wages. Nearly 250,000 workers of 65 textile mills went on strike in Mumbai. [1]
The first permanent post office in the country was established by the British in Colombo in 1882, when the country was a crown colony. [1] It was housed in several different locations until the construction of the General Post Office building at 17 Kings Street (now known as Janadhipathi Mawatha), Colombo Fort, opposite the-then Governor's residence at King's House (now the President's House ...
Sri Lanka is an island country in South Asia, located about 31 km off the southern coast of India. After over two thousand years of rule by local kingdoms, parts of Sri Lanka were colonized by Portugal and the Netherlands beginning in the 16th century, before control of the entire country passed to Britain in 1815.