Larsen & Toubro
L&T Wins (Significant*) Order for its Buildings & Factories Business
17 May 2024
Mumbai, 17 May, 2024: The Buildings & Factories (B&F) business vertical of Larsen & Toubro Construction (L&T) has won multiple orders.
L&T Valves Opens New Manufacturing Facility in Saudi Arabia
17 May 2024
Mumbai, May 16, 2024: L&T Valves, a leading global flow-control solutions provider, has set up a new manufacturing facility - L&T Valves Arabia Manufacturing LLC - in Saudi Arabia.
Mr R Shankar Raman elevated as President, Whole-time Director & CFO
09 May 2024
Mumbai, 9th May 2024: Larsen & Toubro is pleased to announce that Mr R Shankar Raman, who has been Sr EVP, Whole-time Director & CFO, is elevated as President, Whole-time Director & CFO with immediate effect.
Mr Subramanian Sarma elevated as Whole-time Director & President
09 May 2024
Mumbai, 9th May 2024: Larsen & Toubro is pleased to announce that Mr Subramanian Sarma, who has been Whole-time Director & Sr EVP Energy, is elevated as Whole-time Director & President, Energy with immediate effect.
Key Order Wins in Renewables and Grid Systems reflect L&T’s dominance in Clean Energy Space
08 May 2024
Mumbai, May 08, 2024: The Power Transmission & Distribution (PT&D) business of Larsen & Toubro has won multiple orders in India and abroad which stand testimony to its dominant position in the region’s clean energy space.
L&T EduTech rolls out industry-integrated MTech programmes in advanced IT domains
06 May 2024
Mumbai, May 06, 2024: Starting with the academic year 2024-25, L&T EduTech is rolling out industry-integrated MTech programmes in advanced IT domains such as Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Mac
L&T Manufactures Mammoth Hydrotreating Reactor for Mexican Refinery Giant
23 Apr 2024
Mumbai, 23 April 2024: Larsen & Toubro’s (L&T) Heavy Engineering vertical has manufactured a mammoth Hydrotreating Reactor for the Antonio Dovali Jaime Refinery at Salina Cruz in Mexico. At 1,7
Larsen & Toubro concludes Divestment of its entire stake (51%) in L&T Infrastructure Development Projects Limited (L&T IDPL)
15 Apr 2024
Mumbai, April 11, 2024: Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has announced the completion of divestment of L&T Infrastructure Development Projects Limited (L&T IDPL), a joint venture between Larsen & Toubro Limited
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Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
How Quaker Oats grabbed customers’ attention
By Kiron Kasbekar | 07 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats, the American food products giant that was created in 1901 through the merger of many older oat millers, and was acquired by a bigger foods giant, Pepsi, in 2001, has been an innovative company. One example of its innovativeness shows in its packaging – the cereal box it launched in 1915.
Company story – Cunard Line
By Kiron Kasbekar | 12 Jan 2024
The Cunard Line started its life in Glasgow in 1839 as the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company when Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract.
Samuel Slater – textile tycoon or traitor?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Dec 2023
Samuel Slater is a name that holds significant importance in the annals of American industrial history. Often referred to as the ‘Father of the American Factory System’, Slater's contributions played a pivotal role in shaping the nation’s industrial landscape.
Underwood Typewriter Company – an icon of the past
By Kiron Kasbekar | 21 Dec 2023
You’ve probably never heard of Underwood typewriters. For the company folded up in 1963 – 60 years ago. You may not even have seen and handled a typewriter, unless someone in your family owned one.
The rise and fall of Chrysler
By Kiron Kasbekar | 16 Dec 2023
A century ago, the American automobile industry was more crowded than a vegetable market on a Sunday morning, with such a wide variety of stuff on sale that buyers were spoilt for choice. Buyers could pick and choose, bargain, pay up and drive out with the newly purchased vehicle.
TRW – the tide turned
By Kiron Kasbekar | 13 Dec 2023
There used to be an American company called Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc. This company, which was a global supplier of automotive systems, modules, and components to car and truck manufacturers, started small, as most companies do. Then, as the automotive industry grew bigger, so did TRW.
The rise and fall of Nokia
By Aniket Gupta | 07 Dec 2023
My interest is stories about dominant companies that failed all of a sudden. These companies were once etched into people’s minds but have since become a symbol of nostalgia. One such company, which was the biggest in its industry before it failed catastrophically, is Nokia.
Yahoo!: The first king of the internet
By Aniket Gupta | 01 Dec 2023
The year is 1994. You go to the internet to search for a particular website, but there is no Google that could be used to search your desired website. What do you do? The answer is that you use Yahoo.
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