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Chairman and Founder of ADANI GROUP OF Industries
Chairman and Founder of ADANI GROUP OF Industries
INDUSTRIES.
Gautam Adani was born on June 24, 1962,
to Shantilal and Shantaben Adani in a
Gujarati Jain family in AHEMDABAD.
He studied at the Seth C. N. Vidyalya
school in Ahmedabad and later on at
Gujarat University.
Adani is a University dropout, he studied
till his second year for a Bachelor's Degree
in Commerce.
He set out for Mumbai to make a living
with only a few hundred rupees at a young
age of 18.
He worked in Mumbai as a diamond sorter
at Mahindra Bros.
After working there for two years,at the
age of 20,he set up his own diamond
brokerage outfit at Zaveri Bazaar and made
his first lakh.
In 1981, one year later, his elder brother
Mansukhbhai, bought a plastics unit in
Ahmedabad and asked Gautam to run it.
This marked the beginning of Adani's
foray into global trading by beginning to
import polyvinyl chloride (PVC), a key raw
material for manufacturing plastics.
The Group has made foray into high growth sector like
EDIBLE OIL
LOGISTICS
POWER GENERATION
COAL OIL
GAS EXPLORATION
GAS DISTRIBUTION
REAL ESTSTE
PORTS
SPECIAL ECONOMY ZONE
ADANI GROUP has more than 50 companies.
Some of them are...
Mundra SEZ.
Mundra port.
Adani Power Limited.
Adani Agri Fresh Ltd.
Chemoil Adani.
Adani Agri Logistics Ltd.
AIDPL.
The Adani Group stands tall as one of the
largest trading houses of India, a fact duly
recognized through the prestigious “Five
Star Export House” status conferred by
Govt. of India.
On March 10, 2010 Forbes magazine
announced that Adani is the 13th richest
person in India with a personal wealth of
US $4.8 billion, making him the first
billionaire from the city of Ahmedabad.
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