FAMOUS ENTREPRENEUR

AND

BUSSINESSMAN
GAUTAM ADANI
INTRODUCTION
 Gautam Shantilal Adani (born 24 June 1962) is an
Indian billionaire industrialist who is the chairman and
founder of the Adani Group.

 He founded the Adani Group in 1988 and diversified his

business into resources, logistics, energy, agriculture,
defence and aerospace,mining amongst others.

 According to Forbes, his net worth is estimated to be

around $8.7 billion as of August 2018.He has a 66%
stake in Adani Ports & SEZ Limited, 75% stake in Adani
Enterprises, 73% stake in Adani Power, 75% stake in
Adani Transmission. In 2017, he was ranked as the 4th
most powerful person in India by India Today.
EARLY LIFE
 Gautam Adani was born on 24 June 1962 in a Jain
 Bania family to Shantilal and Shanti Adani in 
Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

 He had 7 siblings.

  His father was a textile merchant.

  He was educated at Sheth Chimanlal Nagindas

Vidyalaya school in Ahmedabad. He enrolled in a
bachelor's degree in commerce at Gujarat University,
but dropped out after the second year.
 CAREER

 In 1978,as a teenager, Adani moved to Mumbai to

work as a diamond sorter for Mahendra Brothers.He
worked there for 2-3 years before establishing his
own diamond brokerage firm at Zaveri Bazaar, Mumbai.
 In 1981,his elder brother Mansukhbhai Adani bought
a plastics unit in Ahmedabad and invited him to
manage the operations. This venture turned out to be
Adani's gateway to global trading through 
polyvinyl chloride (PVC) imports.
 In 1985, he started importing primary polymers for
small-scale industries. In 1988, Adani established
Adani Exports Limited, now known as Adani Enterprises
Limited (the holding company of the Adani Group).
 In 1991, the economic liberalization policies turned
out to be favorable for his company and he started
expanding the businesses into trading of metals,
textiles, and agro products.
 In 1993, the Government of Gujarat announced
managerial outsourcing of the Mundra Port and in
1995, Adani got the contract.
 In 1995, he set up the first jetty. Originally
operated by Mundra Port & Special Economic Zone,
the operations were transferred to Adani
Ports & SEZ Limited (APSEZ). Today, the company
is the largest private multi-port operator. Mundra
Port is the largest private sector port in India, with
the capacity of handling close to 210 million tons of
cargo per annum.
 In 1996, the power business arm of the Adani
Group – Adani Power Limited was founded by
Adani. Adani Power holds thermal power plants
with a capacity of 4620 MW, the largest private
thermal power producer of the country.
 In 2006, Adani entered the Power generation
business. From 2009 to 2012, he acquired
Carmichael Coal in Queensland and Abbot Point
Port in Australia.
 In 2012 , Adani group extented its coal mining
bussiness and became MDO at ambikapur district
of CG.
 Recently adani group got a contract of airport
development ,and is set to enter in airport
bussiness also.
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