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Hinduja Group

Hinduja Group is an Indian transnational conglomerate.[3] The group is present in eleven sectors including automotive, oil and specialty chemicals, banking and finance, IT and ITeS, cyber security, healthcare, trading, infrastructure project development, media and entertainment, power, and real estate. The Hinduja brothers have around US$100 billion of assets around the world. The Hinduja family has around US$50 billion of assets in America. The current (2022) net worth of the Hinduja brothers is US$32 billion.[4]

Hinduja Group
TypePrivate
IndustryConglomerate
Founded1914; 109 years ago (1914)
FounderParmanand Deepchand Hinduja
HeadquartersMumbai, Maharashtra, India
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Products
Revenue US$70 Billion (2022)[1]
OwnerHinduja family
Number of employees
200,000+[2]
Subsidiaries
Websitewww.hindujagroup.com

History

The company was founded in 1914 by Parmanand Deepchand Hinduja, who was from a Sindhi family based in India.[5] Initially operating in Shikarpur (in modern-day Pakistan) and Mumbai, India, he set up the company's first international operation in Iran in 1919. The headquarters of the group remained in Iran until 1979, when the Islamic Revolution forced it to move to Europe.[6][7]

Group Chairman Srichand Hinduja and his brother Gopichand, also Co-Chairman, moved to London in 1979 to develop the export business; the third brother Prakash manages the group's operations in Geneva, Switzerland while the youngest brother, Ashok, oversees the Indian interests.[8]

The group employs over 200,000 people and has offices in many major cities around the world including in India.[2] In 2017, Srichand and Gopichand Hinduja were described as the wealthiest men in Britain with an estimated wealth of £16.2 billion in the Sunday Times Rich List 2017.[9]

In 2015, at The Asian Awards, the Hinduja brothers were honoured with the Business Leader of the Year Award.[10] Ashok Hinduja was felicitated with the ABLF Global Asian Award at the UAE Government-backed Asian Business Leadership Forum in 2017. OneOTT Intertainment Limited (OIL), the Media Vertical arm of Hinduja Group, was awarded the 2019 Innovation Leaders award by Telecomlead.com.[11]

Hinduja Group companies

 
Hinduja National Hospital's mobile clinics built on Ashok Leyland platforms

Controversies

Bofors scandal

Srichand, Gopichand and Prakash Hinduja were connected with the investigation into the Bofors scandal, in which Swedish firm Bofors was alleged to have paid illegal bribes to government officials and politicians in connection with the US$1.3 billion sale of 400 howitzers to the Indian Government in 1986. The three brothers were charged by the Indian Central Bureau of Investigation in October 2000,[12] but in 2005 the High Court in Delhi threw out all charges against them, citing a lack of evidence and saying that documents central to the prosecution case were "useless and dubious" since their provenance could not be verified. Judge RS Sodhi said: "I must express my disapproval that 14 years of trial and 2.5 billion (US$31 million) of public money was spent on the case. It has caused huge economical, emotional, professional and personal loss to the Hindujas."[13]

2001 Hinduja affair

In January 2001, it was revealed that UK government Minister Peter Mandelson had telephoned Home Office minister Mike O'Brien on behalf of Srichand Hinduja, who was at the time seeking British citizenship, and whose family firm was to become the main sponsor of the "Faith Zone" in the Millennium Dome. Consequently, on 24 January 2001 Mandelson resigned from the Government for a second time,[14][15] insisting he had done nothing wrong. An independent enquiry by Sir Anthony Hammond came to the conclusion that neither Mandelson nor anyone else had acted improperly.

In January 2001, immigration minister Barbara Roche revealed in a written Commons reply that Keith Vaz, Member of Parliament for Leicester East and at the time a Foreign Office minister, and other MPs, had also contacted the Home Office about the Hinduja brothers, saying that Vaz had made inquiries about when a decision on their application for citizenship could be expected.[16]

On 25 January, Vaz became the focus of Opposition questions about the Hinduja affair and many parliamentary questions were tabled, demanding that he fully disclose his role. Vaz said via a Foreign Office spokesman that he would be "fully prepared" to answer questions put to him by Sir Anthony Hammond QC who had been asked by the Prime Minister to carry out an inquiry into the affair. Vaz said that he had known the Hinduja brothers for some time; he had been present when the charitable Hinduja Foundation was set up in 1993, and had also delivered a speech in 1998 when the brothers invited Tony and Cherie Blair to a Diwali celebration.[17]

On 26 January 2001, Prime Minister Tony Blair was accused of prejudicing the independent inquiry into the Hinduja passport affair, after he declared that Keith Vaz had not done "anything wrong". On the same day, Vaz told reporters that they would "regret" their behaviour once the facts of the case were revealed. "Some of you are going to look very foolish when this report comes out. Some of the stuff you said about Peter, and about others and me, you'll regret very much when the facts come out," he said. When asked why the passport application of one of the Hinduja brothers had been processed more quickly than normal, being processed and sanctioned in six months when the process can take up to two years, he replied, "It is not unusual."[18]

On 29 January, the government confirmed that the Hinduja Foundation had held a reception for Vaz in September 1999 to celebrate his appointment as the first Asian Minister in recent times. The party was not listed by Vaz in the House of Commons Register of Members' Interests and John Redwood, then head of the Conservative Parliamentary Campaigns Unit, questioned Vaz's judgement in accepting the hospitality.[19]

In March, Vaz was ordered to fully co-operate with a new inquiry launched into his financial affairs by Elizabeth Filkin, who was Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards at the time. Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, Vaz's superior, also urged him to fully answer allegations about his links with the Hinduja brothers. Mr Vaz met Mrs Filkin on 20 March to discuss a complaint that the Hinduja Foundation had given the sum of £1,200 to Mapesbury Communications, a company run by his wife, in return for helping to organise a Hinduja-sponsored reception at the House of Commons. Vaz had previously denied receiving money from the Hindujas, but insisted that he made no personal gain from the transaction in question.[20][21]

In June 2001, Vaz admitted that he had made representations during the Hinduja brothers' applications for British citizenship while a backbench MP. Tony Blair also admitted that Vaz had "made representations" on behalf of other Asians.[22] On 11 June 2001 Vaz was dismissed from his post as Europe Minister, to be replaced by Peter Hain. The Prime Minister's office said that Vaz had written to Tony Blair stating he wished to stand down for health reasons.[23]

In December 2001, Elizabeth Filkin cleared Vaz of failing to register payments to his wife's law firm by the Hinduja brothers, but said that he had colluded with his wife to conceal the payments. Filkin's report said that the payments had been given to his wife for legal advice on immigration issues and concluded that Vaz had gained no direct personal benefit, and that Commons rules did not require him to disclose payments made to his wife. She did, however, criticise him for his secrecy, saying, "It is clear to me there has been deliberate collusion over many months between Mr Vaz and his wife to conceal this fact and to prevent me from obtaining accurate information about his possible financial relationship with the Hinduja family".[24]

Ashok Leyland

In February 2005 Ashok Leyland, an India-based flagship company of the brothers' Hinduja Group, announced an agreement to supply 100 army vehicles to the Sudanese Defence Ministry. It was alleged by arms campaigner Mark Thomas that this contravened UK arms export legislation, as a number of the company's directors were UK residents or citizens.[25]

References

  1. ^ "HINDUJA GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED : Financial Data Forecasts Estimates and Expectations | HGS | INE170I01016 | MarketScreener".
  2. ^ a b "Hinduja Group". Hinduja Group. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
  3. ^ "Hinduja Group Ltd". www.bloomberg.com.
  4. ^ Times, The Sunday. "Sri and Gopi Hinduja net worth — Sunday Times Rich List 2022". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  5. ^ Halime, Farah (24 December 2010). "Hinduja, a 'relatively' successful billionaire". The National. Retrieved 5 August 2016. The family's success began with their father, Parmanand, who came from the Sindh province of what is now Pakistan...
  6. ^ "Podcast | The business of family — The Hindujas". Moneycontrol. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  7. ^ Miller, Hugo; Browning, Jonathan (23 November 2021). "Billionaire Family Feud Puts a Century-Old Business Empire in Jeopardy". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
  8. ^ Tim McGirk (12 January 1996). "This is Dynasty, Indian-style". The Independent.
  9. ^ Sonwalkar, Prasun (7 May 2017). "Hinduja brothers stay on top of UK rich list". Hindusthan Times. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  10. ^ Wareing, Charlotte (17 April 2015). "Asian Awards 2015: All the winners from the star-studded bash". Daily Mirror.
  11. ^ Lead, Telecom (14 October 2019). "Winners of TelecomLead.com Innovation Leaders 2019 award". TelecomLead.
  12. ^ "BBC News - SOUTH ASIA - Bofors charges against Hindujas".
  13. ^ "BBC NEWS - South Asia - Q&A: Hinduja Bofors case". 31 May 2005.
  14. ^ "BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | Mandelson resigns over Hinduja affair". News.bbc.co.uk. 24 January 2001. Retrieved 3 October 2008.
  15. ^ "No. 56106". The London Gazette. 31 January 2001. p. 1223.
  16. ^ Grice, Andrew (22 January 2001). "MPs to quiz Mandelson on passport for Hinduja". The Independent. London.
  17. ^ Sengupta, Kim (26 January 2001). "Vaz sidesteps questions on links with Hindujas". The Independent. London.
  18. ^ Waugh, Paul; Kim Sengupta (27 January 2001). "Vaz defiant over his role in Hinduja passport scandal". The Independent. London.
  19. ^ Woolf, Marie (30 January 2001). "Hindujas held party to celebrate Vaz being appointed a minister". The Independent. London.
  20. ^ Woolf, Marie (22 March 2001). "Filkin launches new investigation into cash links between Vaz and Hindujas". The Independent. London.
  21. ^ Grice, Andrew; Stephen Castle (24 March 2001). "Downing Street orders Vaz to help inquiry". The Independent. London.
  22. ^ George, Jones; Womack, Sarah (19 June 2001), "Vaz admits greater role over Hinduja passport", The Daily Telegraph, London
  23. ^ Woolf, Marie; Andrew Morris (12 June 2001). "After months of claims and counter claims, Vaz is finally sacked as Minister for Europe". The Independent. London.
  24. ^ Wintour, Patrick (24 December 2001). "Vaz cleared over Hinduja payments to wife". The Guardian. London.
  25. ^ "House of Commons - Quadripartite Committee - Written Evidence".

hinduja, group, indian, transnational, conglomerate, group, present, eleven, sectors, including, automotive, specialty, chemicals, banking, finance, ites, cyber, security, healthcare, trading, infrastructure, project, development, media, entertainment, power, . Hinduja Group is an Indian transnational conglomerate 3 The group is present in eleven sectors including automotive oil and specialty chemicals banking and finance IT and ITeS cyber security healthcare trading infrastructure project development media and entertainment power and real estate The Hinduja brothers have around US 100 billion of assets around the world The Hinduja family has around US 50 billion of assets in America The current 2022 net worth of the Hinduja brothers is US 32 billion 4 Hinduja GroupTypePrivateIndustryConglomerateFounded1914 109 years ago 1914 FounderParmanand Deepchand HindujaHeadquartersMumbai Maharashtra IndiaArea servedWorldwideKey peopleS P Hinduja Chairman Ashok Hinduja Chairman India ProductsAutomotive Financial services ITES Oil and Gas Media Telecom HealthcareRevenueUS 70 Billion 2022 1 OwnerHinduja familyNumber of employees200 000 2 SubsidiariesAshok Leyland IndusInd Bank Hinduja Bank Switzerland Gulf Oil International Ltd Quaker Houghton Hinduja Healthcare LimitedWebsitewww wbr hindujagroup wbr com Contents 1 History 2 Hinduja Group companies 3 Controversies 3 1 Bofors scandal 3 2 2001 Hinduja affair 3 3 Ashok Leyland 4 ReferencesHistory EditThe company was founded in 1914 by Parmanand Deepchand Hinduja who was from a Sindhi family based in India 5 Initially operating in Shikarpur in modern day Pakistan and Mumbai India he set up the company s first international operation in Iran in 1919 The headquarters of the group remained in Iran until 1979 when the Islamic Revolution forced it to move to Europe 6 7 Group Chairman Srichand Hinduja and his brother Gopichand also Co Chairman moved to London in 1979 to develop the export business the third brother Prakash manages the group s operations in Geneva Switzerland while the youngest brother Ashok oversees the Indian interests 8 The group employs over 200 000 people and has offices in many major cities around the world including in India 2 In 2017 Srichand and Gopichand Hinduja were described as the wealthiest men in Britain with an estimated wealth of 16 2 billion in the Sunday Times Rich List 2017 9 In 2015 at The Asian Awards the Hinduja brothers were honoured with the Business Leader of the Year Award 10 Ashok Hinduja was felicitated with the ABLF Global Asian Award at the UAE Government backed Asian Business Leadership Forum in 2017 OneOTT Intertainment Limited OIL the Media Vertical arm of Hinduja Group was awarded the 2019 Innovation Leaders award by Telecomlead com 11 Hinduja Group companies Edit Hinduja National Hospital Mumbai Hinduja National Hospital s mobile clinics built on Ashok Leyland platforms Hinduja Housing Finance Ltd Ashok Leyland Switch Mobility Ashok Leyland Foundries a division of Ashok Leyland also known as Hinduja Foundries P D Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Centre P D Hinduja Sindhi Hospital Bangalore Hinduja Healthcare Limited Hinduja Bank Switzerland Ltd formerly Amas Bank IndusInd Bank Hinduja Leyland Finance Ltd Hinduja Global Solutions Ltd GOCL Corporation Ltd Gulf Oil International Ltd Gulf Oil Lubricants India Limited Quaker Houghton International Ltd Gulf Oil Middle East Ltd Hinduja National Power Corporation Ltd Hinduja Renewables Energy Private Ltd Hinduja Realty Ventures Ltd Hinduja Group India Limited KPB Hinduja College of Commerce NXTDIGITAL Ltd formerly Hinduja Ventures Ltd includes Nxtdigital Hits OneOTT iNtertainment Ltd INE and INDigital Cyqurex Systems Private Limited British Metal Corporation India Pvt Ltd Hinduja Investments and Project Services LtdControversies EditBofors scandal Edit Main article Bofors scandal Srichand Gopichand and Prakash Hinduja were connected with the investigation into the Bofors scandal in which Swedish firm Bofors was alleged to have paid illegal bribes to government officials and politicians in connection with the US 1 3 billion sale of 400 howitzers to the Indian Government in 1986 The three brothers were charged by the Indian Central Bureau of Investigation in October 2000 12 but in 2005 the High Court in Delhi threw out all charges against them citing a lack of evidence and saying that documents central to the prosecution case were useless and dubious since their provenance could not be verified Judge RS Sodhi said I must express my disapproval that 14 years of trial and 2 5 billion US 31 million of public money was spent on the case It has caused huge economical emotional professional and personal loss to the Hindujas 13 2001 Hinduja affair Edit In January 2001 it was revealed that UK government Minister Peter Mandelson had telephoned Home Office minister Mike O Brien on behalf of Srichand Hinduja who was at the time seeking British citizenship and whose family firm was to become the main sponsor of the Faith Zone in the Millennium Dome Consequently on 24 January 2001 Mandelson resigned from the Government for a second time 14 15 insisting he had done nothing wrong An independent enquiry by Sir Anthony Hammond came to the conclusion that neither Mandelson nor anyone else had acted improperly In January 2001 immigration minister Barbara Roche revealed in a written Commons reply that Keith Vaz Member of Parliament for Leicester East and at the time a Foreign Office minister and other MPs had also contacted the Home Office about the Hinduja brothers saying that Vaz had made inquiries about when a decision on their application for citizenship could be expected 16 On 25 January Vaz became the focus of Opposition questions about the Hinduja affair and many parliamentary questions were tabled demanding that he fully disclose his role Vaz said via a Foreign Office spokesman that he would be fully prepared to answer questions put to him by Sir Anthony Hammond QC who had been asked by the Prime Minister to carry out an inquiry into the affair Vaz said that he had known the Hinduja brothers for some time he had been present when the charitable Hinduja Foundation was set up in 1993 and had also delivered a speech in 1998 when the brothers invited Tony and Cherie Blair to a Diwali celebration 17 On 26 January 2001 Prime Minister Tony Blair was accused of prejudicing the independent inquiry into the Hinduja passport affair after he declared that Keith Vaz had not done anything wrong On the same day Vaz told reporters that they would regret their behaviour once the facts of the case were revealed Some of you are going to look very foolish when this report comes out Some of the stuff you said about Peter and about others and me you ll regret very much when the facts come out he said When asked why the passport application of one of the Hinduja brothers had been processed more quickly than normal being processed and sanctioned in six months when the process can take up to two years he replied It is not unusual 18 On 29 January the government confirmed that the Hinduja Foundation had held a reception for Vaz in September 1999 to celebrate his appointment as the first Asian Minister in recent times The party was not listed by Vaz in the House of Commons Register of Members Interests and John Redwood then head of the Conservative Parliamentary Campaigns Unit questioned Vaz s judgement in accepting the hospitality 19 In March Vaz was ordered to fully co operate with a new inquiry launched into his financial affairs by Elizabeth Filkin who was Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards at the time Foreign Secretary Robin Cook Vaz s superior also urged him to fully answer allegations about his links with the Hinduja brothers Mr Vaz met Mrs Filkin on 20 March to discuss a complaint that the Hinduja Foundation had given the sum of 1 200 to Mapesbury Communications a company run by his wife in return for helping to organise a Hinduja sponsored reception at the House of Commons Vaz had previously denied receiving money from the Hindujas but insisted that he made no personal gain from the transaction in question 20 21 In June 2001 Vaz admitted that he had made representations during the Hinduja brothers applications for British citizenship while a backbench MP Tony Blair also admitted that Vaz had made representations on behalf of other Asians 22 On 11 June 2001 Vaz was dismissed from his post as Europe Minister to be replaced by Peter Hain The Prime Minister s office said that Vaz had written to Tony Blair stating he wished to stand down for health reasons 23 In December 2001 Elizabeth Filkin cleared Vaz of failing to register payments to his wife s law firm by the Hinduja brothers but said that he had colluded with his wife to conceal the payments Filkin s report said that the payments had been given to his wife for legal advice on immigration issues and concluded that Vaz had gained no direct personal benefit and that Commons rules did not require him to disclose payments made to his wife She did however criticise him for his secrecy saying It is clear to me there has been deliberate collusion over many months between Mr Vaz and his wife to conceal this fact and to prevent me from obtaining accurate information about his possible financial relationship with the Hinduja family 24 Ashok Leyland Edit In February 2005 Ashok Leyland an India based flagship company of the brothers Hinduja Group announced an agreement to supply 100 army vehicles to the Sudanese Defence Ministry It was alleged by arms campaigner Mark Thomas that this contravened UK arms export legislation as a number of the company s directors were UK residents or citizens 25 References Edit HINDUJA GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED Financial Data Forecasts Estimates and Expectations HGS INE170I01016 MarketScreener a b Hinduja Group Hinduja Group Retrieved 19 September 2020 Hinduja Group Ltd www bloomberg com Times The Sunday Sri and Gopi Hinduja net worth Sunday Times Rich List 2022 The Times ISSN 0140 0460 Retrieved 4 October 2022 Halime Farah 24 December 2010 Hinduja a relatively successful billionaire The National Retrieved 5 August 2016 The family s success began with their father Parmanand who came from the Sindh province of what is now Pakistan Podcast The business of family The Hindujas Moneycontrol Retrieved 10 June 2020 Miller Hugo Browning Jonathan 23 November 2021 Billionaire Family Feud Puts a Century Old Business Empire in Jeopardy Bloomberg News Retrieved 28 November 2021 Tim McGirk 12 January 1996 This is Dynasty Indian style The Independent Sonwalkar Prasun 7 May 2017 Hinduja brothers stay on top of UK rich list Hindusthan Times Retrieved 7 May 2017 Wareing Charlotte 17 April 2015 Asian Awards 2015 All the winners from the star studded bash Daily Mirror Lead Telecom 14 October 2019 Winners of TelecomLead com Innovation Leaders 2019 award TelecomLead BBC News SOUTH ASIA Bofors charges against Hindujas BBC NEWS South Asia Q amp A Hinduja Bofors case 31 May 2005 BBC News SOUTH ASIA Mandelson resigns over Hinduja affair News bbc co uk 24 January 2001 Retrieved 3 October 2008 No 56106 The London Gazette 31 January 2001 p 1223 Grice Andrew 22 January 2001 MPs to quiz Mandelson on passport for Hinduja The Independent London Sengupta Kim 26 January 2001 Vaz sidesteps questions on links with Hindujas The Independent London Waugh Paul Kim Sengupta 27 January 2001 Vaz defiant over his role in Hinduja passport scandal The Independent London Woolf Marie 30 January 2001 Hindujas held party to celebrate Vaz being appointed a minister The Independent London Woolf Marie 22 March 2001 Filkin launches new investigation into cash links between Vaz and Hindujas The Independent London Grice Andrew Stephen Castle 24 March 2001 Downing Street orders Vaz to help inquiry The Independent London George Jones Womack Sarah 19 June 2001 Vaz admits greater role over Hinduja passport The Daily Telegraph London Woolf Marie Andrew Morris 12 June 2001 After months of claims and counter claims Vaz is finally sacked as Minister for Europe The Independent London Wintour Patrick 24 December 2001 Vaz cleared over Hinduja payments to wife The Guardian London House of Commons 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