ADANI'S GREEN AVATAR
Fortune India|June 2022
Gautam Adani created a $30 billion infrastructure giant across 22 sectors via rapid-fire acquisitions and break-neck entry into new businesses. With India setting a 500 GW renewables target, he bets $70 billion on green energy. What drives the world's 5th richest?
P.B. Jayakumar
ADANI'S GREEN AVATAR

Number 20 holds special significance in the life of Gautam Adani, chairman of the rapidly growing Adani group. All good things at the ₹2.30 lakh crore group begin with number 20. It’s the sum of the birth date of ‘Gautam-bhai’, as everybody addresses him. It’s also the sum of the number plates of each of the eight cars he owns, including the blue BMW 7-Series and Toyota Alphard, his favourites. All family owned and company owned cars sport 20 as the sum of their registration plates. The postal code of Shantigram, an 800 acre township housing the Adani group headquarters on the Sarkhej-Gandhinagar Highway, is 382421. You guessed right, it adds up to 20!

So it was only fitting that 2020 was the year that catapulted Gautam Adani from one among the large business houses in the country to the only one out to challenge the largest — Reliance and Tata — in depth and breadth of operations and value. The valuation of his holdings in seven listed companies shooting from ₹1.4 lakh crore on December 31, 2019 to ₹10.3 lakh crore as on May 24, 2022, overwhelming Mukesh Ambani’s ₹8.7 lakh crore and nudging Tata Group promoter stake worth ₹12.6 lakh crore. In the process, he overtook large entrenched business groups such as Aditya Birla (₹2.2 lakh crore) and Mahindra (₹79,966 crore).

“Adani group is nothing but India's success story in infrastructure,” explains Gautam Adani in a relaxed 90-minute conversation with Fortune India at the Chairman’s Lounge on the 16th floor.

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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.

هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة June 2022 من Fortune India.

ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.