Profil Financier
Karsanbhai Patel occupe actuellement le rang #1104 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur conglomérats & diversifié). Fortune nette estimée : $3.9 B (-$54 sur 24h).
Low-profile founder of Nirma, Karsanbhai Patel, started out mixing detergents in his backyard and selling them door-to-door on his bicycle.
His low-price Nirma brand sparked a detergents war with bigger rivals such as Unilever and Procter & Gamble.
Today Nirma is one of the largest producers of soda ash in the world by volume.
Patel has long handed over operations to the next generation and took the company private in 2012. His cement unit Nuvoco Vistas was listed in 2021.
In 2024, Nirma completed the $680 million acquisition of a 75% stake in Glenmark Life Sciences, a maker of pharmaceutical ingredients, since renamed as Alivus Life Sciences.
Patel was born into a farmer's family in Gujarat and started his career as a lab assistant.
Nirma is named after Patel's late daughter Nirupama.