List of oldest companies in India

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This list of oldest companies in India includes brands and companies, excluding associations and educational, governmental, or religious organisations. To be listed, a brand or company name must remain, either in whole or in part, since inception and should have been established before 1947 and be currently operational. If the original name has since changed due to acquisitions or renaming, this must be verifiable.

The oldest company in India is the Wadia Group, whose origins are traceable to 1736, with its subsidiary The Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation Limited, established in 1863, being the oldest publicly traded company in India.[1]

## List

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Name  | Year established

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Wadia Group | 1736
Cox & Kings | 1758
Forbes & Company | 1767
Parrys[2] | 1788
State Bank of India[3] | 1806
Rama Prasad Goenka Group (RPG Group) | 1820
Purshottam Narayan Gadgil (P. N. Gadgil Jewellers)[4] | 1832
The Times Group | 1838
Higginbotham's | 1844
Mohan Meakin | 1855
Aditya Birla Group | 1857
Chandra Kant Birla Group (CK Birla Group) | 1857
United Breweries Group | 1857
Alipore Jail Press | 1858
Greaves Cotton | 1859
J Thomas & Co. Pvt. Ltd. | 1861
Andrew Yule and Company | 1863
Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation[1] | 1863
Spencer's Retail | 1863
Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri | 1864
Shapoorji Pallonji Group | 1865
Nestlé India[citation needed] | 1866
Balmer Lawrie and Co. | 1867
Tata Group | 1868
McLeod Russel | 1869
Khatau | 1874
Bombay Stock Exchange | 1875
British India Corporation | 1876
Arthur Henry Wheeler (A. H. Wheeler) | 1877
Crompton Greaves (CG Power and Industrial Solutions) | 1878
The Hindu Group | 1878
Bombay Dyeing | 1879
Calcutta Tramways Company | 1880
Sri Venkateswar Steam Press | 1880
Thomas Cook India | 1881
Dabur India Ltd. | 1884
Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers | 1884
Parvathy Mills Limited | 1884
Shaw Wallace | 1886
The Muthoot Group | 1887
Muthoot Pappachan Group | 1887
Kirloskar Brothers Limited | 1888
Kirloskar Group | 1888
Anyonya Co-operative Bank | 1889
Delhi Cloth & General Mills | 1889
Batliboi | 1892
Britannia Industries | 1892
Ahmedabad Stock Exchange | 1894
Amrutanjan Healthcare | 1893
Punjab National Bank | 1894
Century Textile and Industries  | 1897
Godrej and Boyce | 1897
Godrej Group | 1897
Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation (CESC Limited) | 1897
Murugappa Group | 1900
Bengal Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals | 1901
Goodyear India[5] | 1901
The Indian Hotels Company | 1902
Nahoum & Sons | 1902
Shalimar Paints | 1902
Taj Hotels | 1902
Umesh Laldas Jamnadas Khushaldas (ULJK Group) | 1903
City Union Bank | 1904
Phoenix Mills | 1905
Tamil Nadu State Cooperative Bank (TNSC Bank) | 1905
Aurora Film Corporation | 1906
Bank of India | 1906
Canara Bank | 1906
Cosmos Co-operative Bank Ltd | 1906
Hamdard India | 1906
Khoday Group | 1906
National Insurance Company | 1906
Shamrao Vithal Co-operative Bank | 1906
Alembic Group | 1907
Alembic Pharmaceuticals Ltd | 1907
Indian Bank | 1907
Tata Steel | 1907
Vadilal | 1907
Ador Group | 1908
Bank of Baroda | 1908
Punjab & Sind Bank | 1908
Walchandnagar Industries | 1908
Kalyan Group | 1909
Apeejay Surrendra Group | 1910
Lakshmi Mills | 1910
Imperial Tobacco Company of India (ITC Limited) | 1910
Tata Power | 1919
Zandu Realty | 1910
Central Bank of India | 1911
Thirukkurungudi Vengaram Sundram (TVS Group) | 1911
Braithwaite & Co. | 1913
Hinduja Group | 1914
Kerala Soaps | 1914
Amira Nature Foods | 1915
Gujarat Tea Processors & Packers Ltd | 1915
The Bangalore Press | 1916
Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Limited | 1916
Karur Vysya Bank | 1916
Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co | 1917
Pune District Central Cooperative Bank | 1917
Indian Iron and Steel Company (IISCO) | 1918
Juggilal Kamlapat (J. K. Organisation) | 1918
Orissa Minerals Development Company | 1918
Saraswat Co-operative Bank Ltd | 1918
West Bengal State Co-Operative Bank | 1918
Biecco Lawrie | 1919
Birla Corporation | 1919
Kesoram Industries Ltd. | 1919
Mahashian Di Hatti (MDH) | 1919
Madhav Prasad Birla Group (M.P Birla Group) | 1919
New India Assurance | 1919
Scindia Steam Navigation Company Ltd. | 1919
Union Bank of India | 1919
Bridge and Roof Company (India) | 1920
Catholic Syrian Bank (CSB Bank Limited) | 1920
Kansai Nerolac Paints | 1920
Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Limited | 1921
Ananda Bazar Patrika Group (ABP Group) | 1922
Gammon India | 1922
Khimji Poonja Freight Forwarders | 1922
Nainital Bank | 1922
Tata Coffee | 1922
Berger Paints | 1923
Gita Press | 1923
Godrej Interio | 1923
Pothys | 1923
Karnataka Bank | 1924
Mavalli Tiffin Room | 1924
Popular Prakashan | 1924
Mavalli Tiffin Room (MTR Foods) | 1924
India Security Press | 1925
Kolathappilly Pothayan Namboodiris (KP Namboodiris) | 1925
Raymond Ltd | 1925
Syndicate Bank | 1925
Bajaj group | 1926
Darashaw | 1926
Dunlop India[6] | 1926
Essel Group | 1926
Forbes Marshall | 1926
Hindustan Construction Company | 1926
Lakshmi Vilas Bank | 1926
Dhanlaxmi Bank | 1927
Hindustan Times (HT Media) | 1927
General Motors India | 1928
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation[7] | 1928
South Indian Bank | 1928
Tiruvellore Thattai Krishnamachari (TTK Group) | 1928
Boroline | 1929
Rane group | 1929
Rane (Madras) | 1929
Reliance Infrastructure | 1929
Bajaj Consumer Care | 1930
Dalmia Group | 1930
Himalaya Wellness Company | 1930
Hyderabad Deccan Cigarette Factory | 1930
International Netherlands Group Vysya Bank (ING Vysya Bank) | 1930
Philips India Limited[8] | 1930
Vazir Sultan Tobacco (VST Industries) | 1930
Arvind | 1931
Bajaj Hindusthan | 1931
Bata Shoes | 1931
Dalda | 1931
Kokuyo Camlin | 1931
Federal Bank | 1931
Sintex | 1931
Vijaya Bank | 1931
Punchiri Boat Services Private Ltd[9] | 1932
Air India | 1932
Air India Cargo | 1932
Amco Batteries | 1932
Indian Express Limited | 1932
Kerala Minerals and Metals | 1932
Peerless Group | 1932
Hindustan Unilever | 1933
Indian Sugar and General Engineering Corporation (ISGEC) | 1933
Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd.[10] | 1934
Eveready Industries India | 1934
J L Morison (India) | 1934
Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders | 1934
Nivia Sports | 1934
The Oberoi Group | 1934
Bank of Maharashtra  | 1935
Braithwaite, Burn & Jessop Construction Company | 1935
Chemical, Industrial and Pharmaceutical Laboratories (Cipla) | 1935
Co-optex | 1935
Indrapuri Studio | 1935
Linde India[11] | 1935
Paper Products Limited (Huhtamaki PPL) | 1935
Reserve Bank of India | 1935
Associated Cement Companies Limited (ACC) | 1936
Godfrey Phillips India | 1936
Mysore Paper Mills | 1936
Rupa Publications | 1936
Bharat Starch Industries | 1937
Birla Precision Technologies | 1937
Colgate-Palmolive India  | 1937
Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals | 1937
Haldiram's | 1937
Indian Overseas Bank | 1937
Mukand | 1937
Mysore Paints and Varnish | 1937
Tata Investment Corp | 1937
LGB | 1937
Aravind Laboratories | 1938
Bajaj Electricals | 1938
Jammu & Kashmir Bank | 1938
Kerala State Road Transport Corporation | 1938
Larsen & Toubro Limited | 1938
United India Insurance Company | 1938
Delhi Press | 1939
Godavari Biorefineries | 1939
Muthoot Finance | 1939
Naihaa | 1939
S. Chand Group | 1939
Tata Chemicals | 1939
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited | 1940
Sanspareils Greenlands | 1940
Hindustan Shipyard | 1941
Asian Paints Ltd | 1942
Hindustan Motors | 1942
Hyderabad Allwyn | 1942
Baden Aniline and Soda Factory (BASF India) | 1943
Blue Star | 1943
Chelpark | 1943
Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore | 1943
Filmistan | 1943
International Paper[12] | 1943
Oriental Bank of Commerce | 1943
Praga Tools | 1943
Radico Khaitan | 1943
Ratnakar Bank (RBL Bank) | 1943
Signet Press | 1943
Escorts Group | 1944
Havmor Ice Cream | 1944
Unichem Laboratories | 1944
Amalgamations Group | 1945
Avichi Meiyappa (AVM Productions) | 1945
Bajaj Auto | 1945
Essar Shipping | 1945
Islamic Publishing House | 1945
Kamani Engineering Corporation (KEC International) | 1945
Mahindra Group | 1945
Mahindra & Mahindra | 1945
Tata Motors | 1945
Western India Palm Refined Oils (Wipro) | 1945
Abbott Laboratories (India) Ltd[13] | 1946
Amul | 1946
Delhi Land and Finance (DLF) | 1946
Hindustan National Glass & Industries Limited | 1946
Jaico Publishing House | 1946
Martin Burn | 1946
Madras Rubber Factory (MRF) | 1946
National Bearings Company (NBC Bearings) | 1946
Travancore Titanium Products | 1946

## See also

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* List of companies of India
* List of oldest banks in India
* Category:Companies of India by year of establishment

## References

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1. ^ a b Mudgill, Amit. "Old isn't gold always! These 19th century firms failed to reward investors in last 5 years". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2022-09-19.
2. ^ "About Us – E.I.D. – Parry (India) Limited".
3. ^ "State Bank of India | Britannica". 26 April 2023.
4. ^ Joshi, P. K. (1989). Gadgil Kulavruttanta [The Gadgil Family Genealogy Almanac] (in Marathi). Pune. p. 93.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
5. ^ "GOODYEAR INDIA LTD". Zauba Corp. Retrieved 2022-09-24.
6. ^ "DUNLOP INDIA LTD". Zauba Corp. Retrieved 2022-10-14.
7. ^ "HSBC AGENCY (INDIA) PRIVATE LIMITED". Zauba Corp. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
8. ^ "PHILIPS INDIA LIMITED". Zauba Corp. Retrieved 2022-10-14.
9. ^ "PUNCHIRI BOAT SERVICE PRIVATE LIMITED". Zauba Corp. Retrieved 2022-09-19.
10. ^ "Shri Chandrashekhar Govind Agashe". Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute. Vol. 36\. Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute. 1955. p. 382.
11. ^ "LINDE INDIA LIMITED". Zauba Corp. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
12. ^ "INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY LIMITED". Zauba Corp. Retrieved 2022-09-24.
13. ^ "ABBOTT LABORATORIES (INDIA) LTD". Zauba Corp. Retrieved 2022-10-12.

* 70 companies with pre-1947 roots. livemint.