Bharti Enterprises
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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Conglomerate |
| Founded | 1980 |
| Headquarters | New Delhi, India |
| Key people | Sunil Bharti Mittal (Chairman & Group CEO) Rakesh Bharti Mittal (Vice Chairman) Rajan Bharti Mittal |
| Products | Telecommunications, Retail, Insurance, Digital TV, Real estate |
| Revenue |  INR 714.5 billion (2012) |
| Profit | INR 42.59 billion (2012) |
| Employees | 30,000+ (2010) |
| Subsidiaries | Bharti Airtel Bharti AXA General Insurance Bharti AXA Life Insurance Bharti Infratel Bharti Realty Bharti Retail Bharti Softbank Holdings Bharti Walmart Beetel Teletech Centum Learning FieldFresh Foods Jersey and Guernsey Indus Towers |
| Website | www.bharti.com |
Bharti Enterprises is an Indian business conglomerate headquartered in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1976 by Sunil Bharti Mittal and it operates in 20 countries across Asia and Africa. Bharti Enterprises owns various businesses spanning across telecommunications, retail, financial services and manufacturing.
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History [edit]
The company was founded by Sunil Bharti Mittal along with his two siblings in 1976. The company started with manufacturing bicycles before diversifying into various sectors. It entered into telecommunications industry in 1995.
Companies [edit]
Bharti is present in various sectors with the largest revenue contribution coming from telecom industry.
Bharti Airtel [edit]
Bharti Airtel Ltd is the third largest mobile operator in the world, in terms of subscriber base, and has a presence in 20 countries. The company is India’s largest integrated telecom company in terms of customer base and offers mobile, fixed line, broadband, IPTV, DTH and enterprise services.
Bharti Infratel [edit]
Bharti Infratel deploys and manages telecom towers and communication structure for various wireless operators. The company has pioneered the GreenTowers P7 initiative for the betterment of the environment. In India, Bharti Infratel owns 33,446 towers across 11 circles. It will spend 
1,086 crore to set up 4,813 new towers and upgrade its existing ones by financial year 2016.[1] Bharti Infratel also has a 42% stake in Indus towers which was created as a Joint Venture between Bharti Infratel, Vodafone and Idea & owns more than 100,000 towers across 15 circles.
Bharti Retail [edit]
Bharti Retail is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bharti Enterprises. Bharti Retail operates a chain of multiple format stores. The company’s neighborhood format stores operate under the Easyday brand and the compact hypermarket format under the 'Easy day market' brand. Recently the company has become more involved in the food economic sectors, with a joint partnership in the agricultural company FieldFresh. [2]
Bharti Walmart [edit]
Bharti Enterprises tied-up with Walmart for opening a chain of retail stores all over India. The two companies, in August 2007, made a surprise statement that they have signed a wholesale cash-and-carry deal. The first Best Price Modern Wholesale opened in Amritsar in May 2009.
Bharti TeleTech [edit]
Bharti Teletechis India’s leading telecom & allied products company. It is one of the largest manufacturers of land line telephones in the world. With a strong distribution network across the country, the company is also the primary distributor of IT and Telecom products from international brands such as Motorola, Blackberry, Thomson, Polycom, Transcend, and Logitech. [3]
FieldFresh Foods [edit]
FieldFresh Foods is a joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and DMPL India Ltd. (a subsidiary of Del Monte Pacific Ltd.). The company offers fresh fruits & vegetables and processed foods & beverages in the domestic as well as international markets.
Bharti AXA General Insurance and Life Insurance [edit]
Bharti AXA is a joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and AXA, world leader in financial protection and wealth management. They offer a range of life insurance and wealth management products.
Centum Learning [edit]
Centum (formerly Bharti Learning Systems Limited), a wholly owned subsidiary of Bharti Enterprises, is a learning and development organisation that specializes in the customer experience arena.
Bharti Foundation [edit]
Bharti Foundation was set up in 2000. It aims to create and support programs that bring about sustainable changes through education and the use of technology and information.
Bharti Realty [edit]
Bharti Realty is the in-house Real Estate arm for Bharti Group and facilitates by extending support to the Group Companies for identifying, developing and maintaining real estate.
References [edit]
- ^ http://telecomtalk.info/bharti-infratel-ipo-proceeds-towers/100084/#more-100084
- ^ FieldFresh Foods :: Linking Indian Fields to the World
- ^ "Transcend partners with Bharti". Transcend. Archived from the original on 6 January 2009. Retrieved 2008-11-22.
External links [edit]
- Bharti Enterprises homepage
- Bharti Teletech homepage
- Airtel Lanka Official Site
- Airtel website
- Airtel-Vodafone Jersey
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