Ardeshir godrej biography
Ardeshir godrej biography
Ardeshir godrej biography in tamil.
This Man Laid the Foundation of a Billion-Dollar Made-In-India Business Empire in Colonial Times
Rome wasn’t built in a day, as the popular saying goes. Some of the world’s biggest businesses are, in fact, the culmination of decades of hard work and perseverance.
Such is the story of the Godrej Group, one of India’s most renowned conglomerates, which started with a humble lock-making venture in 1897.
Ardeshir Burjorji Sorabji Godrej, who founded the company 120 years ago, was a man of high principles and resilience.
Image source: Godrej Archives
Born in 1868, Ardeshir was the oldest of six children in a Parsi-Zoroastrian family in Bombay (as Mumbai was then called).
His father Burjorji Gootherajee changed the family name to Godrej when Ardeshir was around three years old.
Ardeshir studied law, like many other Indians from affluent families, during the British reign. However, his career in law was short-lived as Adi Godrej, the company’s present CEO, narrates in Peter Church’s