RPG Enterprises is a conglomerate

Conglomerate (company)

A conglomerate is a combination of two or more corporations engaged in entirely different businesses that fall under one corporate structure , usually involving a parent company and several subsidiaries. Often, a conglomerate is a multi-industry company...

s in India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

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Subdivisions

RPG Enterprises comprises more than twenty companies in the areas of Power, Transmission, Technology, Retail and Entertainment. Some of the companies it holds are CEAT Tyres

CEAT

CEAT may refer to:* CEAT Limited, is a tire manufacturing company based in Mumbai, India.* UPLB College of Engineering and Agro-Industrial Technology, is one of the eleven degree-granting units of the University of the Philippines at Los Baños....

, KEC International, Zensar Technologies

Zensar Technologies

Zensar Technologies is a global information technology services and business process outsourcer headquartered in Pune, India. It is a software wing of RPG Group, and offers a range of integrated information technology and BPO products and services to Fortune 500 clients.Zensar has a marketing...

 and RPG Life Sciences

RPG Life Sciences

RPG Life Sciences is an Indian Pharmaceutical Company. Formerly known as Searle Ltd, RPG Life Sciences is part of RPG Enterprises. It has its corporate office in RPG House in Worli, Mumbai...

. The group has a turnover of nearly US$ 3 billion.

The flagship company is Ceat Pvt Ltd

CEAT Limited

CEAT Limited is a tyre manufacturing company based in Mumbai, India. CEAT is an abbreviation for Cavi Electrici Affini Torino...

, a company with an annual turnover of Rs

Rupee

The rupee is the common name for the monetary unit of account in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, Mauritius, Seychelles, Maldives, and formerly in Burma, and Afghanistan. Historically, the first currency called "rupee" was introduced in the 16th century...

 64 Billion (Aprrox. US$ 1.25 Billion) .

RPG Retail, another company in the group, runs hypermarkets (Giants

Giant Hypermarket

Giant Hypermarket is a major supermarket and retailer chain in Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, and UAE. It is a subsidiary of Dairy Farm International Holdings .-History:...

), supermarkets (Spencers

Spencer Plaza

Spencer Plaza, is a shopping mall located on Anna Salai, and is one of the landmarks of modern Chennai, Tamil Nadu in India. Reconstructed in 1985 on the site of a departmental store, it is the oldest shopping mall in India.-History:...

), and music stores (Music World). Its first hypermarket was opened in Hyderabad in 2001, with its second and third opened in Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

 and Vizag in 2004.

History

RPG group was founded by Ramdutt Goenka in the year 1820 in Calcutta for performing trade with British East India Company

British East India Company

The East India Company was an early English joint-stock company that was formed initially for pursuing trade with the East Indies, but that ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent and China...

. Ramdutt Goenka came from a small town in Rajasthan

Rajasthan

Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

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