- RPG Enterprises
RPG Enterprises is one of the largest conglomerates in
India . [cite book|title=World View: Global Strategies for the New Economy|author=Jeffrey E. Garten|pages=20|date=2000|publisher=Harvard Business School Press|isbn=1578511852]Subdivisions
RPG Enterprises comprises has more than twenty companies in areas of Power, Transmission, Technology, Retail and Entertainment.cite book|title=Indian Retail Sector — A Primer|author=Nitin Mehrotra|chapter=RPG Retail|publisher=ICFAI Books|isbn=8131406857|pages=67] Some of its held companies are CEAT Tyres, KEC International,
Zensar Technologies andRPG Life Sciences . The group has a turnover nearing USD$ 3 billion.The flagship company is Ceat Pvt Ltd, a company with an annual turnover of Rs64 thousand millions. [cite book|title=Trade, Finance, and Investment in South Asia|editor=T. N. Srinivasan|chapter=Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Integration in the SAARC Region|author=Sisara Jayasuriya and Dushni Weerakoon|date=2002|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=818735805X|pages=387]
ROG Retail, another company in the group, runs hypermarkets (Giants), supermarkets (Spencers), and music stores (music world). Its first hypermarket was opened in Hyderabad in 2001, with its second and third opened in
Mumbai andVizag in 2004. Fromfinancial year s 2002 to 2004, the company posted net losses, although its management aimed to begin producing profits by 2007.History
RPG group was founded by Ramdutt Goenka in the year 1820 in
Calcutta for performing trade withBritish East India Company . Ramdutt Goenka came from a small town inRajasthan .References
Further reading
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External links
* [http://www.rpggroup.com RPG Group site]
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