Business Chief APAC+ANZ Magazine March 2020 | Page 154

ADITYA BIRLA
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“ Our energy derives from the sun , termed Aditya in our mythology , and so closely linked with the name of our legendary leader , Aditya Vikram Birla ” saying : “ My vocation is to strive continuously , to reach excellence in all spheres of management , by weaving the threads of enterprise , knowledge , experience , ideas and tasks into a fabric that can be called ‘ management ’.” By the time of his death in 1995 , the Group ’ s revenues had crossed INR80bn globally , and consisted of 55 plants , 75,000 employees and 600,000 shareholders .

As a “$ 48.3bn corporation ”, Aditya Birla employs over 120,000 employees spread across 42 nationalities . It
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