The Kalyan Group is the holding company of what chain founded by T. S. Kalyanaraman in 1993?
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Kalyan Group Kalyan Group is a holding company for the brands of Kalyan Silks, Kalyan Matrimony, Kalyan Jewellers, Kalyan Developers, Kalyan Sarees and Kalyan Collections. It is headquartered in Thrissur, Kerala, India. Kalyan Silks have four showrooms in Thrissur, and one each in Cochin, Palakkad, Kozhikode, Kannur and Kottayam, Dubai, Bangalore, Thiruvalla, Sharjah, and Muscat and Kalyan Sarees have showrooms in Coimbatore, Thrissur, Calicut, Thiruvananthapuram and Kannur.
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Kalyan Jewellers Kalyan Jewellers is an Indian jewellery store chain owned by the Kalyan Group. It was founded by T. S. Kalyanaraman, who started the first jewellery shop in 1993 in Thrissur, Kerala, India (the company's current headquarters) with a capital of million () and has since grown to become the largest jewellery store chain in India. With approximately 8000 employees, the chain has 79 showrooms across India. Bloomberg has valued Kalyan Jewellers at about $1 billion in January, 2013. Global Private Equity Fund Warburg Pincus made an investment of $200 Million (INR 1200 Cr) in Kalyan Jewellers in October, 2014.
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Ngan Lung Restaurant Ngan Lung Catering (Holdings) Limited (銀龍飲食集團有限公司) is a cha chaan teng restaurant chain founded by Tang Bing-hung in 1963 in the city-state of Hong Kong. The chain currently has 18 locations, primarily serving Kowloon and the New Territories. It also operates three restaurants on Hong Kong Island. Food items offered at each outlet varies, although most of the available food choices are standard, and are reminiscent of Hong Kong traditional cha chaan teng and bing sutt food culture.
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Kalyan Developers Kalyan Group was started in 1909 by T.S Kalyanrama Iyer with a textile mill in Thrissur city. T.S. Kalyanaraman, was born in Thrissur district. He learned business from his father, he is also helping his father in his shop. After that he joined Sree Kerala Varma College, and select commerce as his major subject. In 1993 he started his own jewellery shop named Kalyan Jewellers in Thrissur with a capital of Rs 7.5 million. After that he expanded the business to 32+ showrooms all over South India.
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V-Star Creations V-Star Creations is an Indian manufacturer of inner wear. It is the subsidiary of V Guard V-Star was founded in 1995 by Sheela Kochouseph, the wife of Kochouseph Chittilappilly, founder and chairman of V-Guard and a chain of amusement parks called Wonderla. The company made news in January 2011 in connection with an ongoing labour dispute.
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T &amp; T Supermarket T & T Supermarket () is a Canadian supermarket chain which sells primarily numerous forms of Asian foods. The supermarket chain is headquartered in Richmond, British Columbia. In 1993, the first T & T was opened in Burnaby's Metropolis at Metrotown, a shopping centre in the Metrotown area in Metro Vancouver.
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Khulisa Management Services Khulisa Management Services (Pty) Ltd is a smallor medium sized business founded in 1993 in South Africa
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Kebab Turki Baba Rafi Kebab Turki Baba Rafi is the world's largest chain of kebab, which operates more than 1000 outlets in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Bangladesh. Headquartered in Indonesia, the business began in 2003 as a cart operated by young entrepreneur, Nilam Sari. Beginning in 2005, the business applied the franchise system. It is owned by Baba Rafi Enterprise, the company which also owns Piramizza, Bebek Garang, and Voila! Indonesia.
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Central (Hypermarket) Central is an Indian retail chain operated by Future Retail Limited, the operating company of Future Group which also runs another hypermarket chain, Big Bazaar.
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Lakshmi Machine Works Lakshmi Machine Works Limited ("LMW") is India's largest textile machinery and CNC Machine Tool manufacturers, based in Coimbatore founded by Cavalier Dr. G.K. Devarajulu. It started its operation in 1962 in Periyanaickenpalayam in Coimbatore city with technical collaboration with Swiss-based textile machinery manufacturer Rieter for textile machines and German based Steel and Ammunition major Krupp. In mid 1980's the company bought over its Coimbatore based longtime rival and much older Textile and engineering giant Textool. The company is promoted and owned by the Lakshmi Mills family.
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Baskaran Kandiah (Karan) Baskaran Kandiah (Karan) is the co-founder and Director of Lebara Group, a European telecoms company with operations in six countries. He is also the Chairman of London Tamil Media, the holding company of IBC Tamil, a popular Tamil TV channel based out of London, UK. He also owns Karan Holdings B.V, registered in Netherlands.
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Namdhari's Fresh Namdhari's Fresh (a unit of Namdhari's Seeds) is a grocery store chain, started in 2000 in the city of Bangalore. The chain was set up with the objective of filling the segment of premium green grocers. The company offers fruits and vegetables for retail purchase. The fruits and vegetables offered for sale ("currently 40 varieties") are grown at the company's own production centers. Besides the Domestic market, the produce is also meant for export to Europe, Australia and the Middle East. The Company currently operates stores in Bangalore only. The only direct competitor is Reliance Fresh that operates over 500 stores across India.
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Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces Indian Hotels Company Limited (IHCL), branded as Taj Hotels Palaces Resorts Safaris, is an international chain of hotels and resorts headquartered at Express Towers, Nariman Point in Mumbai. Incorporated by the founder of the Tata Group, Jamsetji Tata, in the year 1903, the company is a part of the Tata group, one of India's largest business conglomerates. The Taj group employed over 13000 people in the year 2010.
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Borusan Borusan Holding A.Ş. is a Turkish industrial group headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey. The company operates through the following segments: steel, distributorships, energy, and logistics.
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M. M. Ispahani Limited M. M. Ispahani Limited (Bengali: ম ম ইস্পাহানি লিমিটেড ), also known as the Ispahani Group, is a Bangladeshi conglomerate. Headquartered in Chittagong, it is owned by the Ispahani family. The group owns Bangladesh’s largest tea company, as well as other major food brands in the country. It also has interests in shipping, real estate, textiles, jute and hotels.
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Melcom Melcom is a supermarket chain consisting of 39 shops spread all over Ghana It was started in 1989 by Indian magnate Bhagwan Khubchandani. His late father, Ramchand Khubchandani, had arrived in the then Gold Coast in 1929 as a 14-year-old to work as a store boy. Melcom Group of Companies is a family business.
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İhlas Holding İhlas Holding is a Turkish conglomerate. Besides media assets which include the "Türkiye" newspaper and TGRT News TV, it has primary interests in construction (İhlas Construction Group), electric and electronic (İhlas Home Appliance inc.) and trade (İhlas Marketing), energy and mining (Ihlas Mining), health and education (Türkiye Hospital and İhlas College. The company has traded on the Istanbul Stock Exchange since 1994.
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Freshness Burger Freshness Burger, often referred to simply as Freshness, is a fast food restaurant from Japan. Founded in 1992, it sells hamburgers, sandwiches, salads, and coffee drinks. It advertises itself as "Fresh and Organic," operating under the slogan "Freshness Food, Freshness Serving, Freshness People, Freshness Planet," which is displayed in English. There are several vegetarian items on the menu. It presently operates 189 locations in Japan.
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Morley's Morley's is a fast food chain based in the United Kingdom, selling fried chicken, burgers and spare ribs. Morley's was founded in 1985, by Kannalingam "Indran" Selvendran (1951–2002).
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Metro Shoes Metro Shoes is multi-brand footwear retail chain in India. In 2013, the company announced that it was able to expand the number of its retails stores due to low rental rates, particularly in tier II cities. As of January 2016, it has 165 stores all over India.
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Giant Hypermarket GCH Retail (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (doing business as Giant Hypermarket) is a hypermarket and retailer chain in Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Giant is one of the largest players of the retail industry in Malaysia, having over 85 branches spread throughout the country. It was founded by the Teng family in 1944.
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Ajay Srinivasan Ajay Srinivasan (born November 2, 1963) is the Chief Executive of "Aditya Birla Capital Limited" (ABCL) which is the holding company of all financial services businesses belonging to the Aditya Birla Group. Since he started his career in 1987, Srinivasan has served in various capacities with ICICI Group, ITC Group and Prudential plc including board positions prior to joining the Aditya Birla Group in 2007.