Rank #2121
G. Rajendran
Net worth $2.0B
Jewellery · India
- Born
- Oct 05, 1942
- Age
- 83
- Source
- Jewellery
- Residence
- Chennai
- Citizenship
- India
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 0
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- G. Rajendran chairs privately held GRT Jewellers, which he founded in 1964 as GR Thangamaaligai.
- The jewelry chain sells diamond, gold, platinum and silver jewelry mostly in south India.
- His sons G.R. Ananthapadmanabhan and G.R. Radhakrishnan are managing directors at GRT Jewellers.
- He also chairs the GRT Institute of Engineering and Technology located outside Chennai.
- His group's hospitality arm has hotels and resorts across 14 cities in south India.
- Its hotel arm is building a resort in Maldives
- Rajendran hails from a family of jewelers from Kumbakkonam in Tamil Nadu.
- Thangamaaligai means gold castle in the Tamil language.