Dcm Shriram-Corporate-Story.Pdf
Corporate Reports BUSINESS INDIA u THE MAGAZINE OF THE CORPORATE WORLD Ajay, Ajit, Vikram: empire, DCM Ltd, taking their rich straddling sugar, legacy forward Blazing its own trail chemicals, vanaspati, pottery, fans, sewing A fulfilling silver anniversary for an over-one-century- machines, electric motors old company and capacitors. Knighted by King George VI in 1941 for his high enter- prise, Sir Shri Ram valued educa- t has been a remarkable 25 years accountant in a firm of bankers and tion and culture alongside business, for DCM Shriram Limited (DSL), realtors, who had neither money nor establishing the prestigious Shri Ram Ithe New Delhi-headquartered knowledge of machines, but a big College of Commerce in 1932, Shri conglomerate with a legacy span- dream for a cotton mill in his city Ram Institute for Industrial Research ning 107 years. of Delhi. Struck by Gopal Rai’s idea, in 1950 and Lady Shri Ram College DCM Shriram was spun out of a a group of city businessman met in in 1956, as also the Shri Ram Cen- four-way reconstitution in 1990 of 1888 at the house of Rai Bahadur tre for Performing Arts, a landmark the Shri Ram family’s businesses that Lala Ram Kishan Das, a meeting that in New Delhi’s theatre circuit. Music had their origin in the textile mill led to the registration of the mill was his passion and that led him to of Lala Shri Ram, the patriarch. The in 1889. Rai Bahadur was made its learn under Pt Ravi Shankar. late Shri Ram, whose 132nd birth chairman and Gopal Rai tasked with DCM charted spectacular growth anniversary was commemorated on the maintenance of accounts.
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