Hari Shankar Singhania, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
About Hari Shankar Singhania
- Hari Shankar Singhania (20 June 1933 – 22 February 2013) was the President of J.K.
- Organisation, a leading Indian industrial group, which has its roots extending nearly 100 years, and is one of the largest industrial groups in India.
- It has multi-business, multi-product and multi-location operations.
- Most of the companies in the group are public limited entities, with more than 40,000 employees.
- The group has more than 500,000 shareholders, with a nationwide sales and service network of over 10,000 distributors and many retailers and service centres.
- The group has export interests in nearly 90 countries across the globe. Mr.
- Singhania was the architect of most of the J.K.
- Organization group of companies which currently manufacture a large range of products including automotive tyres and tubes, paper and board, cement, V-belts, oil seals, power transmission equipment, woolen textiles, readymade suits and apparel, food and dairy products, hybrid seeds, steel engineering files, and cosmetics. Born in Kanpur, Mr.
- Singhania initially worked in Kolkata.
- In the 1960s, he moved to Delhi and established himself as a leading industrial figure in the growing city.
- Throughout his life, Mr.
- Singhania remained active in business, political and nonprofit communities.
- He was offered the post of Indian Ambassador to the United States by Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao, a position he declined.
- Widely travelled overseas, Mr.
- Singhania was a keen gardener and an enthusiastic photographer.
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