Rank #1080
Adi Godrej
Net worth $4.0B
Consumer goods · India
- Born
- Apr 03, 1942
- Age
- 84
- Source
- Consumer goods
- Residence
- Mumbai
- Citizenship
- India
- Marital status
- Widowed
- Children
- 3
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Master of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Net worth over time
Biography
- Adi Godrej, patriarch of the storied Godrej clan, controls the Godrej Industries Group with his younger brother, Nadir Godrej.
- The group consists of four listed companies, Godrej Consumer Products, Godrej Industries, Godrej Properties and Godrej Agrovet.
- His brother Nadir is chairman of the group, while his son, Pirojsha is vice chairman.
- In 2024, the siblings and their cousins Jamshyd and Smita Crishna-Godrej divided the family's business empire into two separate business groups
- The Godrej group was established by lawyer Ardeshir Godrej, who gave up his profession to make locks in 1897.
- Godrej launched the world's first soap made from vegetable oil in 1918.
- Godrej aerospace engines were used in India's mission to Mars in 2014.
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