ADITYA BIRLA GROUP- A Brief Profile

The Aditya Birla Group is among India's largest business houses. Operating in the country for over five decades and globally for nearly thirty years, its revenues today are in excess of US $ 5.6 billion, with net earnings of US $ 500 million, a US $ 5 billion asset base, and a market cap of US $ 4 billion and 700,000 shareholders.

Its 40 state-of-the-art manufacturing units and sectoral services, anchored by 72,000 employees, criss-cross 16 countries including Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Egypt, Canada, USA and UK.

A premium conglomerate, the Aditya Birla Group is a dominant player in all of the sectors in which it operates, such as aluminum, viscose staple fibre, copper, cement, viscose filament yarn, branded apparel, chemicals, carbon black, fertilizers, sponge iron, insulators, power, telecom, financial services and more recently, insurance. It is the world's largest producer of viscose staple fibre, amongst the world's largest producer of white cement, the largest single location refiner of palm oil, the third largest producer of insulators, the fifth largest producer of carbon black, amongst the lowest cost producers of aluminum globally and the largest fully integrated aluminum producer in India.

In India the Group is the single largest producer of viscose filament yarn, grey cement (at a single location), white cement and rayon grade pulp, the only producer of linen and a leader in the ready-to-wear branded apparel.

Grasim, Hindalco, Indian Rayon, Indo Gulf and Indal from its stables - rank among India's top 50 most respected and admired corporations.

The Group also has a significant presence in the Financial services, Power and Telecommunication sectors - with strategic joint ventures with giants such as - Sun Life (Canada), Powergen plc (UK), AT&T (USA), the Tata Group and BPL Communications Ltd. respectively. In the software sector, the Group is represented through PSI Data Systems marking its entry into software development, system integration and software maintenance services.

On the social front: a value-based, caring corporate citizen, the Aditya Birla Group inherently believes in the trusteeship concept of management. Part of the Group's profits is ploughed back into meaningful welfare-driven initiatives that make a qualitative difference to the lives of marginalised people. Carried out under the aegis of the Aditya Birla Centre for Community Initiative and Rural Development, it is spearheaded by Smt. Rajashree Birla.