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GAUTAM
ADANI
PRESENTED BY :
Manish Runthla
Roll No. 2747
INTRODUCTION
o Gautam Adani founded The Adani Group in 1988 and Adani
Group is one of the largest import export corporations in
India.
 The core businesses of the group are coal trading, commodity
trading, edible oil manufacturing, mining,Mundra port
operations and distribution of natural gas.
 Apart from its core businesses, the Adani Group has also
diversified into Real Estate, Ports, Special Economic Zones
and IT enabled services.
o Gautam Adani is an Indian entrepreneur who has led the
Adani group from a modest background to create a $8 billion
professionally managed empire in a relatively short period of
time.
 He is said to be among the 100 most influential businessmen
worldwide in the shipping trade and developing shipping
related infrastructure.
 Adani group covers more than 50 companies under it
including adani enterprise,adani port and adani agri,adani
energy and mining etc.
EARLY LIFE
o Gautam Adani, Indian businessman and Chairman of Adani Group,
was born in June 24,1962 in Ahmadabad, India to a Gujarati Jain
Family.
o He did his schooling from the Seth C. N. Vidyalya school in
Ahmadabad and enrolled at Gujarat University but he dropped
college in 2nd year.
o Instead of joining father’s textile business,at the age of 18,came to
Mumbai and started career to working as a diamond sorter in
Mahindra brothers for 2 years and at the age of 20, he started his
own diamond brokerage outfit at zaveri bazaar.
 After one year, his elder brother Munshkhbhai opened a
plastic unit in Ahmadabad and handed over the
responsibility to him.
 Soon, he began global trading by importing important
raw material of manufacturing plastic, Polyvinyl
Chloride.
 He purchased Beechcraft jet in 2005 and after two years
he purchased Hawker in 2007. Since 2007, he has been
the Chief Executive officer of Mudra and Special
Economic Zone Limited.
 He is a first generation entrepreneur.
 Adani group gives 3 per cent of its profits to the Adani
Foundation. He is particularly proud of Adani Vidya
Mandir, a school in Ahmedabad which admits only
those children whose parents have an annual income
less than Rs.1 lakh.
 It is interesting to note that Gautam Adani was once
kidnapped by Anees Ibrahim and was released only
after his family paid Rs. 3 crore as ransom.