Founded in 1900, the ₹742 Billion (₹74,220 Crores) Murugappa Group is one of India's leading business conglomerates. The Group has ten listed Companies traded in NSE & BSE. Headquartered in Chennai, the major Companies of the Group include Carborundum Universal Ltd., CG Power and Industrial Solutions Ltd., Cholamandalam Financial Holdings Ltd., Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company Ltd., Cholamandalam MS General Insurance Company Ltd., Coromandel International Ltd., Coromandel Engineering Company Ltd., E.I.D. Parry (India) Ltd., Parry Agro Industries Ltd., Shanthi Gears Ltd., Tube Investments of India Ltd. and Wendt (India) Ltd.

The Group’s businesses hold leadership positions in several product lines including Abrasives, Technical Ceramics, Electro Minerals, Auto Components & Systems, Power Conversion Equipment, Transformers & Reactors for the Power T&D segment, Solutions for Railways in Rolling Stock & Signalling Equipment, Bicycles, Fertilisers, Sugar, Tea and Spirulina (Nutraceuticals). The Group has forged strong alliances with leading international companies such as Groupe Chimique Tunisien, Foskor, Mitsui Sumitomo, Morgan Advanced Materials, Yanmar & Co. and Compagnie Des Phosphat De Gafsa (CPG). The Group’s businesses serve customers across the length and breadth of India and in over 50 countries.

Renowned brands like BSA, Hercules, Montra, Mach City, Ballmaster, Ajax, Rhodius, Parry’s, Chola, Gromor, Shanthi Gears and Paramfos are from the Murugappa stable. The Group fosters an environment of professionalism and has a workforce of over 73,000 employees.

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The story of the Murugappa Group is a legacy of entrepreneurship that started in 1934 and lives to this day.

Our journey began in 1898 when 14 year old Murugappa Chettiar accompanied his uncle as an apprentice to the British province of Burma. He eventually set up his own banking practice, with his fluency in Burmese giving him an uncommon edge. By 1914, he had secured his firm’s position as second only to The Imperial Bank of Burma.

The great depression, World War and growing sentiment against foreigners cast a shadow on the future of the business in Burma. Employing keen foresight, Dewan Bahadur had the family funds transferred to India before the Burmese government took over foreign holdings. The origins of the group in India can be traced back to this prudent act. In India, he encouraged his three sons to seize opportunities that would diversify their businesses. A series of investments included a sandpaper plant, manufacturing of steel safes, setting up of an insurance company, a rubber plantation and more. The Group has drawn from its heritage and carried out organizational and entrepreneurial changes with transparency, and was one of the first to successfully transition from a family-managed group to a professionally managed corporate house.

This was the basic principle laid out by our founder, over a century ago and the tradition has endured. Today, this belief continues to guide our decisions and define our work ethics.

Cholamandalam Financial Holdings Limited (CFHL)

Cholamandalam Financial Holdings Limited (CFHL) (formerly known as TI Financial Holdings Limited) was incorporated in 1949 and is a part of the Murugappa Group, one of the most diversified business conglomerates of India. Consequent to the scheme of arrangement (demerger) sanctioned by the National Company Law Tribunal, the manufacturing business of the Company was transferred to a separate company and the company retained its finance business. 

CFHL is registered with the Reserve Bank of India as a Non-Deposit taking Systemically Important - Core Investment Company (CIC-ND-SI) pursuant to the receipt of Certificate of Registration from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) dated January 6, 2020, under Section 45-IA of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934. After the demerger, the company has significant shareholding in companies viz., Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company Limited, Cholamandalam MS General Insurance Company Limited and Cholamandalam MS Risk Services Limited. 

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