Some Gujarat's based Companies

ABB
Asea Boveri Brown (ABB) is a global leader in power and automation technology that enables utility and industry customers to improve performance while reducing environmental impact. ABB's state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Vadodara is a global sourcing base for outdoor and indoor circuit breakers. The ABB Group operates in 100 countries. In India it has a vast installed base, extensive local manufacturing and a countrywide marketing and service presence. ABB posted revenues of US$ 327 million in 2003.

Aditya Birla Group
It is the 11th largest cement producer in the world, seventh-largest, in Asia. It is one of the Fortune 500 companies of AB Group, one of world’s largest aluminium rolling companies. Also, it is one of the biggest producers of primary aluminium in Asia and at the same time the third-largest producer of insulators. It is among the fastest growing copper companies in Asia. It has 10 manufacturing units across Gujarat (highest).

AT&T India
AT&T India, a subsidiary of AT&T, USA, is based in Gujarat since 1984. The company has established a brand name in the telecom services sector. It offers networking and communication equipment to telecom operators. In collaboration with the Aditya V Birla Group, AT&T operates Idea Cellular in Gujarat. AT&T is a three-time winner of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in the US, and winner of Japan's Deming Prize and Taiwan's National Quality Award.

Adani Group
Established in 1988, it is the largest trading house in India, leading trader in coal, wheat, castor oil, petroleum, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), power trading, iron-ore and pulses. It has a well developed natural gas distribution network. It has established India’s largest edible oil refinery in the State. it is also involved in development of Mundra Port – second port to be privatised in Gujarat. It has proposed the establishment of multi purpose port at Mundra, in JV with Petronet LNG.

Bayer
Bayer AG, the German chemical giant, is a Fortune 500 company with global sales of US$ 33 billion. Represented by 350 companies across five continents, it has a total workforce of I 15,400 people. Its business operations are the responsibility of the subgroups - Bayer HealthCare AG, Bayer CropScience AG and Bayer MaterialScience AG. In Gujarat, the company operates through Bayer CropScience Ltd, Bayer Diagnostics India Ltd and Bilag Industries Private Ltd.

Bosch Rexroth (India) Ltd
Bosch Rexroth (India) Ltd, a subsidiary of Bosch Rexroth AG, Germany, was established in 1975. The company provides comprehensive drive and control solutions in industrial and mobile applications through hydraulics, electric drives and controls, linear drives and guides, pneumatics. The company has close to 300 employees and recorded total sales of US$ 23 million in 2003. Its facility at Ahmedabad manufactures hydraulic valves, pumps, blocks, cylinders and power units. Bosch has sales offices, service centres and training centres in Ahmedabad serving customers in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

British Gas
British Gas is a leading player in the global energy market. In India, the company has a majority shareholding (65 per cent) in Gujarat Gas Company Ltd. The company's principal lines of business are natural gas distribution, transmission systems, compressed natural gas (CNG), gas supplies and natural gas.

E.I. Dupont
Dupont India became a wholly owned subsidiary of E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company Inc., USA, in 1994. The company has invested close to US$ 80 million in India and manufactures Tynex toothbrush bristles, Teflon non-stick coating, engineering polymers, crop protection products and pioneer seeds. The company's facility in Savli, Gujarat, manufactures crop protection products and engineering polymers.

Essar Group
It is a diversified business group with enterprise value over US$ 20 billion. Its business portfolio includes steel, energy, power, communication, shipping and logistics and construction. Its business operation locations are Mumbai, Gujarat (Ahmedabad, Hazira, Vadinar), Vishakhapatnam. It is the largest producer of sponge iron and also largest exporter of flat steel products (Steel plants in Gujarat – Hazira, Vishakhapatnam). It focuses on on global expansion with projects in Canada, USA, Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean and Southeast Asia,

GE Plastics India Ltd (GEPIL)
GE Plastics India Ltd is a 50:50 joint venture between Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd (IPCL) and General Electric Plastics BV, Netherlands. The company has a world-class plant for advanced engineering plastics, alloys, blends and compounds at Vadodara in Gujarat. With a present capacity of 25,000 tonnes per annum, it manufactures a wide range of GE's proprietary products. In 1996, GEPIL also became the first global manufacturing site of General Electric Plastics to start manufacturing GELON* (Polyamide-6) compounds.

General Motors India
Founded in 1908, GM is the world’s largest auto maker. In 2006, it sold 9.1 million cars and trucks globally. It is the global industry sales leader for 76 years and has an employee strength of 2,84,000 people around the world. Headquartered in Detroit (USA), GM manufactures its cars and trucks in 33 countries. General Motors India, incorporated in 1994, became a fully owned subsidiary of GM in 1999. It has 45,000 Sq. Mt. plant in Halol (Panchmahal), Gujarat, it produces Opel Corsa, Corsa Sail, Chevrolet Optra, and Chevrolet Tavera.

Grasim Industries Ltd
Grasim Industries Ltd, incorporated in 1947, originally a textile manufacturer, successfully diversified into Viscose Staple Fibre (VSF) cement, sponge iron and chemicals. The first phase of Grasim's fourth VSF plant was commissioned in Kharach, Gujarat, in 1996. It is now a global leader in VSF, the country's largest merchant producer of sponge iron and the second-largest caustic soda maker in India and poised to be India's largest cement manufacturer.

Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF)
Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation is a state level apex body of milk cooperatives in Gujarat and one of India's largest food products marketing organisations. With about 2.28 million producer members, its total milk handling capacity is about 6.7 million litres per day. The company has a wide range of products under its flagship brand Amul. These include milk and milk products, ice creams, chocolates, confectioneries and beverages. The company achieved a total turnover of about US$ 575 million during 2002-03, recording a growth of 15 per cent over the previous year.

Gujarat Ambuja Cements Ltd (GACL)
Gujarat Ambuja Cements Ltd is India's leading manufacturer and exporter of cement. It is also India's most profitable cement company and the world's least cost cement producer. GACL is the only cement company to be awarded the National Quality Award and the first Indian cement company to receive an ISO 9002 quality certification.

Gujarat State Fertilisers & Chemicals Ltd
Gujarat State Fertilisers & Chemicals Ltd operates in three business segments: fertiliser products, caprolactam and nylon products. It also manufactures nylon-6, nylon filament yarn, nylon chips and melamine and polymer products.

Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilisers Company Ltd (GNFCL)
Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilisers Company Ltd is a joint venture company between GSFC and the Gujarat Government. GNFC has the largest fuel-based ammonia plant in the world. It is also the largest single stream urea plant to be commissioned in the world. This project was set with an investment of about US$ 100 million at Bharuch, Gujarat.

Huber Chemicals India Ltd
Huber Chemicals India Ltd is a subsidiary of JM Huber Corp, Germany. It is in the chemicals and engineering business and has a facility at Jhagadia, an industrial estate in Bharuch, Gujarat.

Ingersoll-Rand India Ltd (IRIL)
Ingersoll-Rand India Ltd was established in 1926. The company has interests in fields of air solutions and infrastructure. IRIL has a plant in Naroda, near Ahmedabad. The Naroda facility is ISO 9001 certified and caters to a major chunk of the global demand for air-cooled reciprocating air compressors (T 30). The metrology laboratory at this facility is one of the few sophisticated laboratories in India with facilities to conduct tests as per ISI/BSI standards.

Lalbhai Group
The Lalbhai Group, founded in 1908 has grown to become one of India's most diversified business houses, with a significant presence in the textiles, ready-to-wear, agro-chemicals and telecom industries. Arvind Mills Ltd, one of the Group companies, is one of the world's largest producers of denim fabric. Atul Ltd is a leading manufacturer and exporter of over 500 high quality products, including agrochemicals, bulk drugs and bulk drug intermediates, cresols and cresol derivatives, dyes and dye intermediates, epoxy resins and epoxy hardeners, formaldehyde, specialty chemicals and wood adhesives.

Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T)
Larsen & Toubro Ltd is one of India's largest engineering and construction companies. The company has its heavy engineering workshops at Hazira, which manufactures reactors, pressure vessels, columns and heat exchangers for various industries. L&T's workshops are ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14001:1996 and OHSAS 18001:1999 certified.

Matsushita
Matsushita of Japan is a leader in battery products worldwide. In India, Matsushita has a joint venture with the Lakhanpal Group. The company manufactures batteries and battery appliances under the brand Novino and its plant is located at Makarpura Industrial Estate, Vadodara, in Gujarat.

Nirma
Nirma, a US$ 351 million company, is another of Gujarat's success stories. It is the largest detergent manufacturer in India. It has a sales force of over 3,50,400 distributors, over 1 million retailers, and 300 million consumers. Its product line includes cosmetics, soaps, detergents and salt. The company has multi-locational integrated manufacturing facilities and a broad product portfolio under its umbrella brand, Nirma. It manufactures India's largest selling detergent powder and exports to the Middle East and other countries. The company has planned backward and forward integration projects and is focusing on a strong R&D base for continuous product development.

Novartis India Ltd
Novartis India Ltd is a US$ 100 million company that employs close to 1,000 people. The company has two manufacturing facilities, at Kandla and Panoliplant in Gujarat dealing mainly in pharmaceuticals and agrochemical intermediates. In India, Novartis has collaborations with several domestic players, including Dr Reddy's, Torrent and Biocon.

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL)
Reliance Industries Ltd. is India’s largest and only private sector company to feature in Fortune Global 500 list of World. Having annual earnings of over US$ 25 billion (2006-2007), it has manufacturing facilities at three places in Gujarat namely Naroda, Jamnagar and Hazira. Its product line mainly includes synthetic textiles, fabrics, fibre intermediates, plastics, polyester, chemicals and petrochemicals. Its proposed establishment of Petroleum and Petrochemicals SEZ at Jamnagar is worth (US$ 1.1 billion).

Royal Dutch Shell
The Shell Group is a world leader in the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) business. In Gujarat, Shell's Hazira project is the largest of its ventures in India with investment over US$ 600 million. The company's operation at Hazira is considered to be the highest ever FDI in a greenfield project in India. The project includes a port and an LNG terminal together with infrastructure that can handle 5 million metric tonnes of LNG per annum.

Rasna
Rasna holds 93 per cent market share in Indian soft drink concentrate market. It accounts for 82 per cent of in-house consumption of soft drink market and also has a wide range of products in processed foods category.

Siemens Ltd
Siemens Ltd is a 54.6 per cent subsidiary of Siemens AG. Based in Ahmedabad, the subsidiary manufactures electrical equipment, medical equipment, railway signalling equipment, telecom and data communication equipment and a host of other electrical products. The company has over 4,000 employees and a revenue of over US$ 315 million.

Torrent Group
Torrent Group's flagship Torrent Pharmaceuticals established its first manufacturing facility at Vatva in Gujarat in 1980. Its second plant began operations in 1989 in Mehsana district. These facilities manufacture bulk drugs and formulations. The manufacturing facilities have received ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18000 (Occupational Health and Safety Management System) certifications and the IDMA (Indian Drug Manufacturing Association) Gold Award for the year 2002.

Tata Chemicals Limited
An ISO-9001 /14001 certified company, Tata Chemicals Limited is India's leading manufacturer and marketer of inorganic chemicals and fertilisers. Established in 1939, Tata Chemicals operates India's largest manufacturing facility for soda ash at its integrated chemical complex at Mithapur on the Gujarat coast in Western India and is also among the world's largest producers of synthetic Soda Ash. Its range of chemicals produced at the Gujarat plant includes - apart from soda ash - caustic soda, salt, cement, sodium bicarbonate, bromine and bromine based compounds and gypsum. The plant has an installed capacity of 875,000 tonnes of soda ash, nearly 35 per cent of the country's capacity.

The 'avoid, reduce and recycle' philosophy that the company follows is exemplified best at its cement plant at Mithapur. The company is also a signatory to Responsible Care, a voluntary global initiative of the Chemical industry that demonstrates allegiance to safety, health and environmental issues. Mithapur has won the highest British Safety Council 5-star rating. The company has also developed the Mithapur salt works as a natural habitat for thousands of migratory birds and is pioneering marine conservation efforts through its active participation and support of the Whale Shark project.

Welspun
It has presence across 50 countries and its business activities include home textiles, saw pipes and steel, specialty texturised polyester yarn, bathrobes and retail. It is among top two terry towel producers and largest manufacturers of specialty polyester filament. It is also among the largest SAW pipe manufacturers in Asia.

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