Radhe Shyam Agarwal net worth
Current Net Worth – $1.3 Billion (USD – 130 Crores), (Rupees – 10.1 Thousand Crores)
Radhe Shyam Agarwal short biography
Net Worth | $1.3 Billion |
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Born | February 18, 1946 (Age – 76) |
Identified as | Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Emami |
Status | Indian entrepreneur |
Education | Chartered Accountant, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India; M.Com, Calcutta University; LLB, Calcutta University; Company Secretary, Institute of Company Secretaries of India |
Nationality | Indian |
Residence | Kolkata, India |
Spousal status | Married (Usha Bansal) |
Children | 3 |
Radhe Shyam Agarwal has a net worth of $1.3 Billion (Rupees – 1,0101 Crores), making him one of the top richest men in India.
He is the co-founder and executive chairman of Emami.
It is a multinational conglomerate involved in the real estate, FMCG, paper, edible oils, cement industries, and health care.
Radhe issue one of India’s top 100 wealthiest people, with a net worth of $1.43 billion according to Forbes in 2015.
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Radhe Shyam Agarwal biography
Full Name | Radhe Shyam Agarwal |
Birthplace | Kolkata, India |
Height | 5.5 feet, 167 cm |
Weight | 93 Kg |
Father | N/A |
Mother | N/A |
Radhe was born on February 18, 1946, in Kolkata, India, to a Marwari family.
Radhe joined the Aditya Birla Group as vice president in 1970.
Education
Radhe graduated from St. Xavier’s College in Kolkata with a bachelor’s degree. Calcutta University granted him his LLB and Calcutta University granted him his M.Com.
Radhe holds the designations of Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
Career
Radhe and his schoolmate Radhe Shyam Goenka founded the Emami cosmetics company in 1974.
The business was founded with $2600 borrowed from Radhe Shayam Goenka’s father.
Emami has developed into a multi-business multinational conglomerate with a turnover of more than $1.3 billion.
Radhe is also the Joint Chairman and Director of the Emami Group of Companies, as well as the Executive Director and Director of Emami and Zandu Realty.
He was also a trustee of the Merchant Chamber of Commerce and Industries and a director of the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation.
Private & early life
Radhe is married to Usha Bansal, they have two sons, Aditya and Harsh Agarwal, and a daughter, Priti Agarwal Sureka.
The entire family is a member of the Emami party and lives on Kolkata’s posh Southern Avenue. Raj Sureka is Priti Agarwal’s husband.
Controversy
On the morning of December 9, 2011, an AMRI Hospital in south Kolkata’s Dhakuria district caught fire, killing 92 people, the majority of whom were critically ill patients who suffocated in their sleep.
7 members of the hospital’s board of directors were arrested on the same day, and the Chief Judicial Magistrate’s court in Alipore remanded them in police custody until December 20.
Agarwal and Goenka, the founders of Emami and the hospital chain’s directors, were among the seven people arrested. They were accused of causing the deaths through negligence.
At the time, the fire was India’s most serious hospital disaster.
Net worth statistics
- March 2015 – $1.3 B
- March 2016 – $1.4 B
- March 2017 – $1.3 B
- March 2018 – $1.6 B
- March 2019 – $1.1 B
- April 2021 – $1.1 B
- April 2022 – $1.4 B