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 Major Companies
and Founders- Part 2
Garments/Apparels Industry
Company Founder
Raymond Lala Juggilal
Arvind Mills Kasturbhai Lalbhai

Airlines Industry
Company Founder
Kingfisher & Kingfisher Red Vijay Mallya & G. R. Gopinath
SpiceJet It was earlier known as Royal Airways, a
reincarnation of Modi Luft.
Air India Initially started as Tata Airlines, a division of
Tata sons Ltd. by J.R.D. Tata. It was converted
into a public limited company in 1946
Indigo Rahul Bhatia & Rakesh Gangwal
Go Air Jehangir Wadia
 IT Industry
Company Founder

Accenture Founded as consulting division of Anderson

Consulting by Arther Anderson & Clarence
Delany

Adobe Systems John Warnock &Charles Gerchke

Cisco Systems Len Bosack and Sandra Lerner

Hewlett Packard Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard

Fujitsu Fujitsu: Joint Venture between Furukaw a

Electric Company, Japan and German
Conglomerate Siemens

IBM Herman Hollerith

 IT Industry
Company Founder
Infosys N R Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, N S
Raghavan, S Gopalakrishnan, S D Shibulal, K
Dinesh and Ashok Arora.
Patni Computers Narendra K. Patni, Gajendra K. Patni and Ashok
K. Patni
Wipro M.H Hasham Premji
NIIT Ranjendar S. Pawar & Vijay Thadani
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. Started as a division of the Tata Group
Satyam B. Ramalinga Raju
MphasiS Merger of U.S. based IT consulting company
MphasiS corporation & the Indian IT services
company BFL, Software Ltd.
Moser Baer Mr. Deepak Puri
Polaris Software Ltd. Arun Jain
Oracle Financial Services Ltd. Rajesh Hukku
 FMCG Companies
Company Founder
Nirma Karsanbhai Patel
ITC Was established as Imperial Tobacco company
Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (HUL) Subsidiary Unilever
Videocon Venugopal Dhoot
Britannia Industries Nusli Wadia
Dabur Dr. S.K. Burman
 FMCG Companies
Company Founder
Electrolux Through the merger of Electromekaniska
AB and Lux AB in 1919
LG Through the merger of the appliance
company Goldstar and the chemical
company Lucky
Philips Gerard Philips
Unilever Formed as a merger of Lever Brothers
and Margarine Unie
Kraft Foods James. L. Kraft
Colgate Palmolive Colgate was founded in 1806 and in 1928
it was bought by Palmolive
L’ Oreal Eugene Schueller
Nestle Henri Nestle
Procter and Gamble William Procter & James Gamble
Cadbury plc. John Cadbury, Cadbury Schweppes plc.
demerged in 2008 separated its global
confectionery business.
 Automobile Industry
Company Founder
Tata Motors Jamshedji Tata
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. Indian subsidiary of Suzuki, Japan
TVS Motors T. V. Sundaram Iyengar
Bajaj Auto Jamnalal Bajaj
Castrol India Castrol, the global brand, was founded by
Charles Wakefield
Bharat Forge Dr. Nilkanthrao A. Kalyani
Swaraj Mazda Jointly owned by Sumitono corp + Punjab
Tractors + Isuzu + Mazda
Eicher Motors Vikram Lal