Dr.

Vijay Mallya
Personal life

 Mallya is originally from the town of

Bantwal (near Mangalore) in Karnataka.

 He was educated at La Martiniere Boys'

College, Kolkata and completed his
degree from St. Xavier's College,
Calcutta under Calcutta University. He
was conferred a Doctorate in Philosophy
in Business Administration by some
university in California.

 Mallya is married twice. His first wife was

Sameera and they have a son together,
named Sidhartha Vijay Mallya. Later on,
he married Rekha and has two daughters
Leana Mallya, Tanya Mallya.
Business
Airlines
 A hoarding of Kingfisher Airlines
with Vijay Mallya's signature
 In 2005, Vijay Mallya established
Kingfisher Airlines. (At present,
the airline connects 32 cities).
Kingfisher Airlines obtained a 26%
stake in Air Deccan, a low cost
Indian airline which Mallya later
acquired fully and integrated into
his Kingfisher fleet, rebranding it
as Kingfisher Red. Vijay Mallya
and his Jet Airways counterpart
Naresh Goyal announced an
alliance after a marathon meeting
on 13 October 2008 at Mumbai,
India.
Breweries
 Mallya took over as Chairman
of the United Breweries Group
in 1984. Since then, the group
has grown into a multi-national
conglomerate of over sixty
companies with an annual
turnover which has increased
by 639% to US$11.2 billion in
1998-1999 .. He owned
McDowell Crest.
 In May 2007, United Breweries
Group announced the all-cash
acquisition of scotch whisky
maker Whyte & Mackay for
£595 million (approximately Rs
6000 crore). In 2005 he took
over Millennium Breweries Ltd
(formerly known as Inertia
Industries Ltd), which owned
the two premium beer brands
named Sandpiper and Zingaro.
Apart from the beverage and the aviation business
the
focal business areas of the group encompass ,
 Life sciences
 Engineering,
 Agriculture
 Chemicals
 Information technology
 Leisure
 Mallya with
sports(formula 1)
In 2007, Mallya and the
Mol family from The
Netherlands bought the
Spyker F1 team for 88
million euros. The team
changed its name to Force
India F1 from the 2008
Season.

 Mallya also represents India

in the FIA World Motor
Sport Council, where he has
a seat from 2009 to 2013.
Cricket
 Mallya's flagship firm
UB Group owns the
Royal Challengers
Bangalore team in the
Indian Premier
League. He won this
team in an auction by
paying
US$111.6 million for
the team.
Auction purchases
Vijay Mallya is noted for his successful
bidding in auction of items that are
considered of great cultural value to India.
In 2004, he placed the winning bid of
£175,000 for the sword of Tipu Sultan at an
auction in London, and brought it back to
India. In March 2009, Mallya successfully
bid for the belongings of Mahatma Gandhi
at US$1.8 million, in a New York auction
that initially caused an uproar in India and
its government tried and failed to prevent it
from going under the hammer.
Achievements
Establishment of Mallya Hospital in Bangalore.
The hospital is located in Vittal Mallya Road,
named after his father.
Helped to fund the Mallya Aditi International
School, a private school in Bangalore.
 Political life
 Mallya entered politics in 2000 and replaced Subramanian Swamy
as the president of the Janata Party, a breakaway faction of the
original Janata Dal party. His party contested almost all of the 224
seats during the Karnataka State legislative election. He
campaigned vigorously through the media, but his party failed to
make any impact and did not win a single seat.
Thank you