INDIA'S TOP CENTURIONS

Local Business Leader Falls Short of Global Standards

A critical area for the future, particularly in Indian corporates with family governance and management, will be the separation of control and day-to-day management

Amit Gupta - August 01, 2023

Legacy Of Free Thought

Polarisation has also divided us into the camps of liberals and right-wingers. Caught in this tension between ideologies is the story of our intellectual degeneration

Suchetana Ray - August 01, 2023

17th Anniversary

 At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, a new democracy was born. As India woke to life and freedom, some of its business houses were already decades into operations, giving shape to the dreams of its founding fathers.

Catholic Syrian Bank, Est. 1920

Catholic Syrian Bank, the first private bank of Kerala, was established in Thrissur district by a group of Syrian Catholic businessmen

MDH, Est. 1919

India has a rich legacy of a century-old companies that started small. However, very few of them grew out of a small shop. MDH, or Mahashian Di Hatti, as Mahashay Chunnilal Gulati’s small shop in Sialkot was called, is one such company

Bank of Baroda, Est. 1908

Established by Sayajirao Gaekwad III, ruler of the erstwhile princely state of Baroda, Bank of Baroda is the second largest public sector bank in India after the State Bank of India

Organisations That Can Quickly Adapt To Change Will Flourish: Debadatta Chand

Sayajirao Gaekwad III, the king of the erstwhile princely state of Baroda, set up several institutions to modernise the state. One of them was Bank of Baroda, which completed 115 years of operations last month. It is India’s second largest public-sector bank as per total business as of March 31, 2023. Debadatta Chand, the bank's MD and CEO, talks about its glorious past and the transformational changes that continue to keep it relevant

Rajat Mishra  - August 01, 2023

ITC, Est. 1910

With the current market capitalisation of around Rs 5.8 trillion, this multi-sector company has undergone many changes in over a century of its existence

The Company That Catches Patron’s Eye for 100 Years

A brand is owned in consumer minds. The mind-ownership of brands is more important a facet to focus upon, rather than the business and financial ownership of these brands

Harish Bijoor - August 01, 2023

Tata Steel, Est. 1907

Starting out as Tata Iron and Steel Company, popularly known by its acronym TISCO, Tata Steel now has a market capitalisation of over Rs 1.4 trillion.

Hamdard, Est. 1906

Known for its university and iconic flavoured drink Rooh Afza, the Hamdard Group started out as a Unani clinic in old Delhi

When a Corporation Traverses 100 Years Sans a Formula

Centennial companies have weathered the storms of time, evolving their ownership structures to adapt to the changing dynamics at the macro, meso and micro levels and at socio-economic-political-institutional, business, society and family levels.

Nupur Pavan Bang - August 01, 2023

Following The Culture Trail

Amitabh Dube, country president of Novartis India, has travelled extensively, but it is his stay in Vietnam that he most fondly remembers, not just for its food, people and landscape but also for the footprints of Indian culture in the southeast Asian country

Chitra Nair - August 01, 2023

Zubin Saxena

Zubin Saxena, managing director and senior area vice president, South Asia, Radisson Hotel Group, loves golf for the lessons in patience and self-discipline that it gives

Central Bank Of India, Est. 1911

Central Bank of India was established in 1911 as the first commercial bank to be wholly owned and managed by an Indian. The bank was founded by Sorabji Pochkhanawala, a Parsi banker from Mumbai who was influenced by the swadeshi movement.