Corporate Restructuring of

Aditya Birla Group

 About the Company
• India’s 1st largest MNC

• Presence in 20 countries - India, Thailand, Laos, Indonesia,

Philippines, Egypt, Canada, Australia, China, USA, UK, Germany,
Hungary, Brazil, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland,
Malayasia and Korea

• Diversified business - VSF, metals, cement, viscose filament

yarn, branded apparel, carbon black, chemicals, fertilizers,
insulators, financial services, telecom, BPO and IT services
 Mainstay of A V Birla Group

Birla Group

Grasim Industries Ltd. Hindalco Industries Ltd. Indian Rayon and

(1948) (1962) Industries Ltd. (1965)
 A Composite textile mill,
Grasim Vertical Integration Rayon Production Unit, a Pulp
plant and a Spinning unit

The group’s brands were

Diversification in to Vikram Premium Cement,
Grasim Rajashree Cement, Birla Super
Cement business
Cement and Birla White

Vertical integration into plantation,

Market leader in VSF, manufacturing of rayon grade pulp
Grasim sponge iron and and horizontal integration into
production of principal raw material
chemicals required for VSF production
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Viscose filament yarn
Indian ●
Carbon black Carbon ●
Thailand (1980)
Rayon and ●
Textiles black ●
India (1988)
Industries
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Egypt (1990)
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Insulators

Hindalco Technology
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Outokumpu (Finland)
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MIM (Australia)
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Haldor Topsoe
Birla ●
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collaboration (Denmark)
Group 1983 ●
Snamprogetti (Italy)
 Hindalco
• Consolidation of leadership position in
domestic market by acquiring Indal
• Entered into downstream value-added
products such as roofing sheets, kitchen
products and specialty products for pharma
companies
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Consolidation
Cement sector

Dharani Cement Shree Digvijay Cement L&T cement

With a capacity of 31 mtpa, A V Birla group was the largest cement

manufacturer in India and the seventh largest in the world