Kalyani Group
The Kalyani Group is a privately held industrial group in India. It is focused in four primary sectors, viz. Engineering Steel, Automotive & Non-Automotive Components, Renewable Energy & Infrastructure and Specialty Chemicals. It has also made strides into defence manufacturing, which has been showcased in DefExpo 2020.
The group's annual turnover exceeded USD 2.5 billion as of 2011 and has joint ventures with companies such as Meritor, Carpenter Technology Corporation, Hayes Lemmerz, FAW Corp etc.
Kalyani group has very recently forayed into Indian football with entering in India's premier football tournament I-league. They launched their football team on November 23, 2014 named Bharat FC. They will start competing in I-league from January 2015. They are given direct entry to I-league by AIFF as an initiative to bring corporate in Indian football. Bharat FC will be 2nd team to enter I-league under this initiative after JSW lead Bengaluru FC which entered the league in 2013-14 season.History
Kalyani Group was founded by Nilkanthrao Kalyani, an Industrialist. The group is currently chaired by his son Baba Kalyani.Companies
The group holds key stakes in a number of companies:
- Bharat Forge
- Automotive Axles
- Kalyani Steels
- CDP Bharat Forge
- Kalyani Carpenter
- Hikal Chemicals
- Kalyani Sharp
- BF Utilities
- Kalyani Brakes
- Kalyani Thermal
- Kalyani Lemmerz
- Alstom Bharat Forge Power Limited
- Kalyani technologies
- Kalyani Investment