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L&T Minerals & Metals Business Secures (Large*) Orders in Steel and Alumina Sectors
20 Feb 2025
Mumbai, February 20, 2025: The Minerals & Metals (M&M) business vertical of L&T secured an order from Hindalco for setting up an 850 KTPA (kilo tonne per annum) greenfield alumina refinery plant in Od
Rafael and L&T sign MoU to Jointly Offer TROPHY Active Protection System for Indian Defence Platforms
15 Feb 2025
Mumbai, February 15, 2025: Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd (Rafael) and Larsen & Toubro (L&T) are pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), during Aero India 2025, ai
L&T Despatches Third Steam Generator for Kaiga Atomic Power Station
06 Feb 2025
Mumbai, February 06, 2025: The Heavy Engineering arm of Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has achieved yet another milestone by despatching the third Steam Generator (SG), ahead of schedule, for the indigenously
L&T to build a Major(*) Expansion Project for a reputed Steel Producer in MENA Region
04 Feb 2025
Mumbai, February 04, 2025: The Minerals & Metals (M&M) business vertical of L&T will set up a Pellet Plant and a Direct Reduction of Iron (DRI) Plant for a client in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region.
L&T Minerals & Metals Vertical Wins (Significant*) Order in the Middle East
30 Jan 2025
Mumbai, January 30, 2025: L&T’s Minerals & Metals (M&M) vertical has secured a significant order for setting up freight handling facilities in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region.
L&T to Build Uzbekistan's First AI-enabled Data Centre
30 Jan 2025
Mumbai, January 28,2025: Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has received a significant* order to build Uzbekistan's first AI-enabled and sustainable 10-Megawatt data centre in Tashkent.
Larsen & Toubro announced as a preferred EPC Contractor for North Site of World's First 24/7 Solar PV and Battery Storage Gigascale Project
30 Jan 2025
Mumbai, January 27, 2025: The renewables business vertical of L&T has been selected by Masdar, as one of the preferred Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contractors for the north site of
L&T Launches Second Multi-Purpose Vessel for Indian Navy
14 Jan 2025
Mumbai, January 14, 2025: Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Monday launched the second Multi-Purpose Vessel (MPV) for the Indian Navy from its Kattupalli Shipyard near Chennai.
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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.