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AMBUJA CEMENTS

Ambuja Cements Limited, (BSE: 500425|NSE: AMBUJACEM) formerly known as Gujarat Ambuja Limited is a major Cement producing company in India.[2] The Group's principal activity is to manufacture and market cement and clinker for both domestic and export markets.
he company has entered into a strategic partnership with Holcim, the second largest cement manufacturer in the world. Holcim had, in January, bought a 14.8 per cent promoters` stake in the GACL for INR 21.4 billion.[3]
Currently (2011) Holcim holds about 50.00% of shares in Ambuja Cements Limited.
 
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Larsen & Toubro

Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T) (NSE: LT, BSE: 500510) is an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Mumbai, India.

L&T has an international presence, with a global spread of offices and factories, further supplemented by a comprehensive marketing and distribution network

The company was founded in Mumbai in 1938 by two Danish engineers, Henning Holck-Larsen and Soren Kristian Toubro. The first office was reportedly so small that only one of the partners could use it at a time. It was initially involved with importing heavy machinery from Europe.

Revenue 46,789.37 crore (US$10.39 billion) (2010)[1]
Operating income 7,345.35 crore (US$1.63 billion) (2010)
Net income 5,450.74 crore (US$1.21 billion) (2010)
Total assets US$ 12.618 billion (2010)
Employees 38,000 (2010)

Divisions
Engineering & Construction Projects (E&C)
Heavy Engineering (HED)
Engineering Construction & Contracts (ECC)
Electrical & Automation (EBG)
Machinery & Industrial Products (MIPD)
Information Technology & Engineering Services (Infotech)
Finance and Banking Solutions(BFS)
Integrated Engineering Services(IES)
 
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is there any commercial chip manufacturing comapany in India?
 
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ANDHRA BANK

Andhra Bank (Hindi: आंध्रा बैंक, Telugu: ఆంధ్రా బ్యాంకు) was registered on 20 November 1923 and commenced business on 28 November 1923 with a paid up capital of Rs 1.00 lakh and an authorised capital of Rs 10.00 lakhs. The Bank crossed many milestones[clarification needed] and the Bank's Total Business as on 30.06.2008 stood at Rs.83,256 Crores with a Clientele base over 1.74 Crores.[citation needed] The Bank is rendering services through 2139 Business Delivery Channels consisting of 1371 branches, 66 Extension Counters, 38 Satellite Offices and 664 ATMs spread over 21 States and 2 Union Territories as at the end of June, 2008. All Branches are 100% computerized, 1186 units viz., 1101 Branches, 68 Extension Counters, 15 Service Centres networked under Cluster Banking solution and providing "Any Branch Banking(ABB)". Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) Facility and National Electronic Fund Transfer (NEFT) facility has been introduced in 723 Branches. To provide value-added services[clarification needed] to Customers, the Bank has set up its own 664 ATMs as on 30.06.2008. Of which 03[clarification needed] Mobile ATMs and two with Biometric access. Besides, ATM sharing arrangements with several Banks including SBI group, IDBI Bank, UTI Bank, HDFC Bank, Indian Bank and others under National Financial Network Switch covering 24856 ATMs.

Bank was ranked 532nd for the year ended 31.03.2007 amongst Top 1000 Banks in the world by "The Banker" - a London based publication based on Tier I Capital as defined by Basel's Bank for International Settlements (BIS).[citation needed]

Andhra Bank opened a representative office in Dubai in May, 2006 and another at Jersey City, New Jersey (USA), in June 2009. A foothold in New Jersey is strategic for the bank as the state has a large number of Indians from Andhra Pradesh.
 
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[U]APOLLO HOSPITALS[/U]

Apollo Hospitals is a major hospital chain based in Chennai, India. It was founded by Dr. Prathap C. Reddy in 1983. Apollo is private healthcare provider in Asia with hospitals in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Ghana, Nigeria, Republic of Mauritius, Qatar,Oman and Kuwait.
Several of the group's hospitals have been among the first in India to receive a form of international healthcare accreditation, in their case by the American-based Joint Commission International (JCI).[1] The Hyderabad hospital was the first in the world, outside the US, to receive JCI's Disease- or Condition-Specific Care (DCSC) Certification in addition to general accreditation when it received this for its Acute Stroke treatment in 2006.[2] However, they have not as yet acquired international accreditation from any hospital accreditation group from outside of the USA.
The group has developed services in telemedicine, after starting a pilot project in 2000 in Dr Pratap C. Reddy's own home village.[3] It is now the largest telemedicine provider in India with 71 centres.[4]
Another venture of the group is Apollo Health Street, a global healthcare services company (Apollo Health Street). It offers business process outsourcing (BPO)and IT services internationally, operating out of three countries - the United States, the United Kingdom, and four centres in India (Hyderabad, New Delhi, Chennai and Coimbatore). The success of Apollo Hospitals has made it the topic for Harvard Business School case study.[5]

The Apollo Hospital was honoured by having a stamp created in their name on 2 November 2009
 
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APOLLO TYRES

Apollo Tyres Ltd is the world's 15th biggest tyre manufacturer, with annual revenues of Rs 81 billion (US$ 1.8 billion) in 2010. It was founded in 1976. Its first plant was commissioned in Perambra, Kerala. In 2006 the company acquired Dunlop Tyres International of South Africa. The company now has four manufacturing units in India, two in South Africa, two in Zimbabwe and 1 in Netherlands.[15] It has a network of over 4,000 dealerships in India, of which over 2,500 are exclusive outlets. In South Africa, it has over 900 dealerships, of which 190 are Dunlop Accredited Dealers.
It gets 59% of its revenues from India, 28% from Europe and 13% from Africa.[4]
It is planning to become the 10th biggest tyre manufacturer in the world with annual revenues of $5 billion.[5
 
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APTECH

Aptech Limited (BSE: 532475,NSE: APTECHT) is a global retail and corporate training company with headquarters in Mumbai, India.[2] The company commenced its IT training business in 1986[3] and has trained over 5 million students.[4]<
In 1993, Aptech became the first IT training organization in Asia to receive the ISO 9001 quality certification for Education Support Services.[5][6] The company has grown and diversified into various education-related businesses and its stock is listed on the BSE and the NSE.
Its also featured in '2009 Global Top 20 IT Training organizations' list. [7
 
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ARAVIND MILLS

Arvind Mills, the flagship company of the Lalbhai Group, is one of India's leading composite manufacturer of textiles. Its headquarters is in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. It manufactures a range of cotton shirting, denim, knits and bottomweights (Khakis) fabrics. It is India's largest denim manufacturer [1] apart from being world’s fourth-largest producer and exporter of denim. In the early 1980s, the company brought denim into the domestic market, thus started the jeans revolution in India. Today it not only retails its own brands like Flying Machine, Newport and Excalibur but also licensed international brands like Arrow, Lee, Wrangler and Tommy Hilfiger, through its nationwide retail network. Arvind also runs a value retail chain, Megamart, which stocks company brands.[2][3]
 
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ASHOK LEYLAND

Ashok Leyland (NSE: ASHOKLEY, BSE: 500477) is a commercial vehicle manufacturing company based in Chennai, India. Founded in 1948, the company is one of India's leading manufacturers of commercial vehicles, such as trucks and buses, as well as emergency and military vehicles. Operating six plants, Ashok Leyland also makes spare parts and engines for industrial and marine applications. It sells about 60,000 vehicles and about 7,000 engines annually. It is the second largest commercial vehicle company in India in the medium and heavy commercial vehicle (M&HCV) segment with a market share of 28% (2007–08). With passenger transportation options ranging from 19 seaters to 80 seaters, Ashok Leyland is a market leader in the bus segment.The company claims to carry over 60 million passengers a day, more people than the entire Indian rail network. In the trucks segment Ashok Leyland primarily concentrates on the 16 ton to 25 ton range of trucks. However Ashok Leyland has presence in the entire truck range starting from 7.5 tons to 49 tons. The joint venture announced with Nissan Motors of Japan would improve its presence in the Light Commercial Vehicle (LCV) segment (<7.5 tons).

further investment plans including putting up two new plants - one in Uttarakhand in North India and a bus body building unit in middle-east Asia are fast afoot. It already has a sizable presence in African countries like Nigeria, Ghana, Egypt and South Africa.
 
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ASIA MOTOR WORKS

Asia MotorWorks Ltd (AMW) manufactures commercial vehicle, auto components, fully built vehicles and forged components.Founded in 2005, AMW has increased its presence in an increasingly competitive market place through its products and service network spread across the country.It has won the coveted CV of the year 2008 from NDTV Profit Car & Bike Awards[2] & "CV Innovation of the Year" for 2010 from CV Magazine & Zee Business News.[3]
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AMW’s capacity of 15 million wheel rims makes it the largest single location plant in Asia and the company supplies pressed metal components to some of the world’s most renowned auto and white goods manufacturers.
 
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ASIAN PAINTS

Asian Paints (BSE: 500820, NSE: ASIANPAINT) is an Indian paint company headquartered in Mumbai, India.[3] It is one of the largest paint corporation that operates in 17 countries and has 23 paint manufacturing facilities in the world servicing consumers in over 65 countries. Besides Asian Paints, the group operates around the world through its subsidiaries Berger International Limited, Apco Coatings, SCIB Paints and Taubmans
Forbes Global magazine USA ranked Asian Paints among the 200 Best Small Companies in the World for 2002 and 2003 and presented the 'Best under a Billion' award, to the company. Asian Paints is the only paint company in the world to receive this recognition.




Asian Paints operates in 22 countries across the world. It has manufacturing facilities in each of these countries and is the largest paint company in ten overseas markets. Asian Paints operates in five regions across the world viz. South Asia, Southeast Asia, South Pacific, Middle East and Caribbean region through the five corporate brands viz. Asian Paints, Berger International, SCIB Paints, Apco Coatings and Taubmans. In ten markets, it operates through its subsidiary, Berger International Limited; in Egypt through SCIB Paints; in five markets in the South Pacific it operates through Apco Coatings and in Fiji and Samoa it also operates through Taubmans.
The countries that Asian Paints has presence are as follows:
South Asia : Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka
South East Asia : China, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand
Caribbean Islands : Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago
Middle East : Bahrain, Egypt, Oman and United Arab Emirates
South Pacific : Australia, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Samoa Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu
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APPIN SECURITY GROUP

Appin Security Group,is an information security products, services and training company based in New Delhi, India. The company was founded in 2004 by graduates from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. The firm pioneered the field of Ethical Hacking training programs specifically designed to teach Information Security in India.
The company has a research and development pact with Indian Institute of Technology Delhi to provide cutting edge research based solutions for testing, patching, and securing confidentiality and integrity of the data stored in computers and communicated over networks.[1] Appin Security Group provides security to various international airports such as Hyderabad International Airport, Delhi International Airport and so on.[2] Appin's solutions have been implemented across different sectors in different nations across Asia, Africa, Middle East and Europe.[3] Appin Security also obtained empanelment with CERT-In Ministry of IT[4] and CCA Ministry of IT.
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AXIS BANK

Axis Bank Limited, formerly UTI Bank, (BSE: 532215, LSE: AXBC) is a financial services firm that had begun operations in 1994, after the Government of India allowed new private banks to be established. The Bank was promoted jointly by the Administrator of the Specified Undertaking of the Unit Trust of India (UTI-I), Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), General Insurance Corporation Ltd., National Insurance Company Ltd., The New India Assurance Company, The Oriental Insurance Corporation and United India Insurance Company UTI-I holds a special position in the Indian capital markets and has promoted many leading financial institutions in the country. The bank changed its name to Axis Bank in April 2007 to avoid confusion with other unrelated entities with similar name.[2] After the Retirement of Mr. P. J. Nayak, Shikha Sharma was named as the bank's managing director and CEO on 20 April 2009.[3]
As on the year ended 31 March 2009 the Bank had a total income of 13,745.04 crore (US$3.05 billion) and a net profit of 1,812.93 crore (US$402.47 million).
On 24 February 2010, Axis Bank announced the launch of 'AXIS CALL & PAY on atom', a unique mobile payments solution using Axis Bank debit cards. Axis Bank is the first bank in the country to provide a secure debit card-based payment service over IVR.[4]
 
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