Corporate Focus

Telling the tale: So as to document the ‘change’ in the lives of communities – the beneficiaries of social projects of companies and non-profits In Focus: Jindal Stainless Foundation Enabling entrepreneurs Kshanaprava Nayak Kshanaprava Nayak – daughter of Pramod Kumar Nayak from a remote rural village in Odisha, Kumbhiragadia – started working with JIIT Skill…

Telling the tale: So as to document the ‘change’ in the lives of communities – the beneficiaries of social projects of companies and non-profits In Focus: Project Shiksha and Project Jeevika  by Hero MotoCorp Project Shiksha Shivam, 5 years old Shivam is a 5-year-old student at the Shiksha centre in Dharuhera in Rewari, Haryana. He…

While Aditya Birla Group (ABG) is widely acknowledged as one of India’s most trusted brands, not many would know much about its long-standing commitment to social welfare, primarily because this billion-dollar conglomerate does not go to town on what it actually does. Take Covid relief for example: while some celebrities and consumer brands were engaged…

The Mahindra Group is a well-known Indian conglomerate and its brand name is ubiquitous in the country and abroad. One of its most recognisable companies is Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India Ltd (MHRIL), or Mahindra Holidays, which is part of the leisure and hospitality sector of the Group. Launched in 1996, Mahindra Holidays offers family…

One of the top, and perhaps among the most ubiquitous, auto companies in India is Maruti Suzuki. The biggest carmaker in the country, it has more than half of the market share in the passenger-vehicles segment. As has become quite the trend in the auto sector, Maruti’s investment in its CSR has been increasing over…

Corporate Focus features in CB have mostly been limited to large, legacy organisations employing thousands of individuals. However, a new breed of companies are equally, if not more, zealous about their CSR and sustainability work. Perhaps due to the fact that millennials and the succeeding generation (Gen Z?) are becoming increasingly aware and concerned about…

One of the biggest Indian”and some would argue global”names in IT is Wipro Limited, or Western India Products Limited. In 2013, it demerged the non-IT diversified businesses, such as consumer care, lighting and infrastructure engineering, into a separate company named Wipro Enterprises Ltd. Aside from IT, Wipro Limited focuses on consulting and business process services…