March 25, 2021
Start our journey on a cargo ship.
We are right now reaching the Mundra Port in Gujarat India.
In the early 1990's, this port was just a barren land, but now it has been transformed
into India's largest private port, handling over 100 million tonnes of cargo each year.
This port is operated by Adani Group, the diversified conglomerate with over $20 billion of asset base.
The company was started by one man, Gautam Adani.
At 17 years of age, Gautam Adani dropped out of college and started working as a diamond orter in Mumbai.
He later managed his brother's factory and when he turned 23, he started his own import company.
Now about three decades later, that small import company has grown into a mammoth conglomerate
with annual revenue of over $13 billion.
Adani Group's revenue is greater than revenue of Qantas, Nintendo and even Indian IT major's Infosys, Wipro and HCL.
So let's sit back and witness the massive business empire of Adani Group.
We will start our journey in the enchanting Indonesia, and reach the scenic island of
Bunyu.
Here Adani Group operates coal mines and is also the largest employer on the island.
From Indonesia, let's travel all the way to Australia, and reach the scenic Queensland.
Here the group operates Australia’s northernmost coal port, Abbot Point Port.
About a four-hour drive from here, we will reach the town of Moranbah.
Here in this peaceful town, Adani Group has completed a 65 Mega Watt solar project with over 247,000 solar panels.
Moreover, the group is also in the process of building another 140 megawatt, $200 million solar farm in South Australia.
Furthermore, In central Queensland the group owns the much-debated Carmichael coal mine, billed as one of the world's largest.
From Australia, we will move to the serene Myanmar.
Here the group is developing $290 million, one of the largest container terminals in
the country.
From Myanmar, let's catch a boat and sail back to India. This time we will reach the shores of Tamil Nadu. Here Adani Group has set up a gigantic solar project.
With 2.5 million solar panels, a robotic solar-powered cleaning system spread across a vast area of 2,500 acres and was built in just eight months.
Adani is also one of the largest renewable energy companies in India, with over 45 solar & wind projects across 11 states in India.
Furthermore, Adani Group owns Adani Solar, India's largest solar panel manufacturer; Adani Power, India's largest private thermal power producer; Adani Transmission, one of
the India's largest private sector power transmission companies and Adani Electricity, which provides
electricity to over three million consumers across Mumbai.
Moreover, the group also operates ten ports across India, making them India's largest
private port operator, representing 24% of India's total port capacity.
Adani Group is also India's largest private-sector rail operator.
It also operates logistic parks, over 4 lac sqft of warehousing space, grain storage silos
in Punjab and Haryana and also owns 15,000 hectares of industrial land in Mundra, Gujarat.
Adani group also owns a real estate company that is developing over 69 million sq. ft.
of residential and commercial real estate, a 6000 km pipeline distribution network, operates
coal mines, over 80 CNG stations, a financial company, a defence and aerospace company,
Farm-Pik brand, India's largest apple supply chain brand and also jointly owns the popular edible oil brand, Fortune.
Moreover, Adani Group has recently ventured into airport management business and would
soon be operating airports in Ahmedabad, Lucknow and Mangaluru.
Moreover in digital infra space, the group has proposed to build a $10 billion cloud-based data centre in Andhra Pradesh.
Not only that Adani group also operates power training institutes, infrastructure institutes, hospitals & even a medical college. The group also runs a football academy and also jointly owns the Pro Kabaddi League team,
Gujarat Fortune Giants. Moreover, the group's foundation has established Adani Vidya Mandir schools in Gujarat and
Chhattisgarh that provide free of cost education to economically weaker students, while they
also operate subsidised schools and also run rural clinics & health care units across India, that attend to over 25,000 patients per month.
Looking back at the journey of this enormous conglomerate, which was started only a few decades ago.
All in can say, this is Adani Group's massive business empire..
