The Aditya Birla Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate named after Aditya Vikram

Birla, headquartered in the Aditya Birla Centre in Worli, Mumbai, India. It operates in 40
countries with more than 120,000 employees worldwide. The group was founded by Seth
Shiv Narayan Birla in 1857. The group interests in sectors such as viscose staple fibre,
metals, cement (largest in India), viscose filament yarn, branded apparel, carbon black,
chemicals, fertilisers, insulators, financial services, telecom (third largest in India), BPO and
IT services.
The group had a revenue of approximately US$41 billion in year 2015. It is the third-largest
Indian private sector conglomerate behind Tata Group with revenue of just over US$100
billion and RIL with revenue of US$74 billion.

Non-ferrous metals
The Group's non-ferrous metals are under Hindalco Industries. Its manufacturing locations
are primarily in India and it owns mines in Australia. On 11 February 2007, the company
entered into an agreement to acquire the Canadian company Novelis for
US$6 billion, making the combined entity the world's largest rolled-aluminium producer. On
15 May 2007, the acquisition was completed with Novelis shareholders receiving $44.93 per
outstanding share of common stock. The Group plans to close a part of its aluminium foil
making mill in UK and shift that to its plant near Nagpur.
Hindalco makes alumina chemicals, primary aluminium, rolled products, alloy wheels,
roofing sheets, wire rods, cast copper rods, copper cathodes and several other products.

Cement
The Group's cement business was earlier under Grasim Industries and UltraTech Cement. The
two entities have now been merged into UltraTech Cement to form India's largest cement
company. UltraTech Cement was acquired from L&T in 2004.

Carbon black
After purchasing Columbian Chemicals Co (Press Release), the Group is now the largest
manufacturer of Carbon black worldwide.

Textile business
The Aditya Birla Group is the world's largest producer of Viscose staple fibre. It operates
from India, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia and China. It owns the Birla Cellulose brand. Apart
from viscose staple fibre, the group also owns acrylic fibre businesses in Egypt and Thailand,
viscose filament yarn businesses and spinning mills in India and South East Asia. The group
has pulp and plantation interests in Canada and Laos. Its two companies i.e. Aditya Birla
Nuvo Ltd and Grasim Bhiwani Textiles Ltd which is a subsidiary of Grasim Industriesare in
textile business.

Fashion

Aditya Birla Group sells in-house and other branded apparel via brick-and-mortar and online
stores. The group's firm Madura Fashion & Lifestyle sells in-house brands such as Louis
Philippe, Van Heusen, Allen Solly, Peter England and People via the website Trendin.com.
The group ventured into niche target and select portfolio apparel in October 2015 with Abof.

Telecom Services
Aditya Birla Group is the majority shareholder of Idea Cellular. Idea Cellular was started as a
joint venture with the group, AT&T and the Tata Group. After an IPO on the Indian stock
markets, Idea Cellular now accounts for a third of the group's market capitalisation. The
company is headquartered in Mumbai.

Financial Services
Aditya Birla Financial Services Group (ABFSG)
Aditya Birla Financial Services Group (ABFSG) is the umbrella brand for all the financial
services business of The Aditya Birla Group. ABFSG ranks among the top 5 fund managers
in India (including LIC) with an AUM of US$23 billion. Having a strong presence across the
life insurance, asset management, lending (excluding Housing), housing finance, equity &
commodity broking, wealth management and distribution, online money management portal
Aditya Birla Money MyUniverse, general insurance advisory and private equity and health
insurance businesses. ABFSG is committed to serve the end-to-end financial services needs
of its retail and corporate customers. In FY 201314, ABFSG reported consolidated revenue
from these businesses at just under 70 billion (US$1.0 billion) and profits of about 7.5
billion (US$110 million). Anchored by over 14,000 employees and trusted by over 6 million
customers, ABFSG has a nationwide reach through 1,500 points of presence and about
130,000 agents/channel partners.

Aditya Birla Science and Technology Company Private Limited (ABSTCPL) is the corporate
research and development centre for the Aditya Birla Group. Located in Taloja, just outside
of Mumbai in India, ABSTCPL supports the broad diversity of the Group's businesses
through multi-disciplinary teams of expert scientists and engineers who lead fundamental and
applied research projects. The company aims to be a world-class organisation that delivers
innovative solutions, continuously improves core competencies and executes effectively. The
centre is supported by state-of-the-art equipment set in a one-of-a-kind brand new
technology-led environment.
ABSTCPL seeks advances in products, processes and applications in several areas,
including:

Non-ferrous metals (from extraction and smelting to downstream operation).

Carbon black technology (from feedstock to finished product).
Cement (mineralogy, clinkerisation and concrete).
Fibre technology (spinning processes, materials and new applications).
Chemicals (chlor-alkali product stream development, fluorine derivatives, phosphates,
sulphites and specialty thermoset resins).

ABSTCPL has generated extensive intellectual property for the Group, with the filing of
more than 30 patent applications that cover novel processes, products and applications.
Built on a 20-acre plot, the 30,000 sq. mt. facility comprises modern laboratories, multipurpose scale-up facilities, modelling and simulation areas. It also hosts the Knowledge
Centre for the Group, which has access to databases on areas of interest and information on
patents, periodicals and other publications.

At ABSTCPL, research and development is based on two

strong capabilities. The Process Engineering and Sciences Laboratory focuses on advanced
processes and designs, process control and automation, and process engineering platforms
and scale-up. The Science and Technology Platforms Laboratory provides expertise in
metallurgy, fibre science and textiles, material and surface sciences, and chemistry.
ABSTCPL is supported by the Analytical Science and Technology Laboratory, with state-ofthe-art equipment that will enable advanced measurement and characterisation techniques.
The analytical services laboratory will support all the needs of the Group units and, in the
future, even those of external customers.
Technology platforms

Research at ABSTCPL is undertaken in the following areas:

Aluminium
ABSTCPL works closely
with
the
Hindalco
Innovation Centre on
several fronts such as
alumina
production,
aluminium smelting and
downstream processing of
aluminium.
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Carbon
black
The Carbon Black Research
Laboratory aims to serve the
Birla
Carbon
business
globally at all stages of the
value
chain.
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Copper
The R&D focus is on
providing cost-effective
scientific and technical
solutions for the Group's
copper
business.
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Cement
ABSTCPL
works
in
association with the cement
business
research
and
development team at Khor
in Madhya Pradesh to
improve the profitability of

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Chemicals
The Chemicals Science
Group at ABSTCPL is a
pioneer
in
chemical
research
and
its
application to issues of
scientific
and
technological importance
at the Aditya Birla Group.
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business.

Fibres
ABSTCPL
works
in
collaboration
with
the
Group's fibre businesses, to
focus on development of
new products, processes and
technologies for cellulosic
fibres
and
value-added
acrylic
fibres.
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Facilities

Aditya Birla Science and Technology Company Private Limited offers services in the
following areas:

High performance computing

Analytical sciences
Process scale-up
Knowledge centre