Rank #1866
Acharya Balkrishna
Net worth $2.2B
Consumer goods · India
- Born
- Jul 25, 1972
- Age
- 53
- Source
- Consumer goods
- Residence
- Haridwar
- Citizenship
- India
- Marital status
- Single
- Children
- 0
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Acharya Balkrishna derives his fortune from consumer goods giant Patanjali Ayurved.
- Balkrishna owns the bulk of the privately held company, which he cofounded with politically well-connected yoga guru Baba Ramdev.
- Patanjali sells everything from herbal toothpastes and cosmetics to noodles and jams.
- To push online sales, Patanjali has agreements with several e-commerce giants, such as Amazon and BigBasket.
- Edible oils maker Ruchi Soya, which he acquired in 2019, was renamed as Patanjali Foods and he was installed as chairman.
- Balkrishna is often dressed in an all-white traditional dhoti.
- Balkrishna's parents hail from Nepal.
- In 2024, he apologised to India's Supreme Court for Patanjali's ads that allegedly make misleading claims about the medicinal benefits of its products.
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