Today, August 27, a group of 4,500 Indians who are employees of the pharmaceutical corporation Sun Pharmaceuticals Industries Limited will travel to Vietnam.
Behind this trip is billionaire Dilip Shanghvi - founder and chairman of Sun Pharmaceuticals, among the richest people in India.
It is expected that the delegation will be divided into several groups to come to Vietnam from today, August 27 to September 7, including 4 nights staying in Hanoi and visiting famous places such as Ninh Binh and Ha Long Bay. According to Labor sources, billionaire Dilip Shanghvi himself plans to personally participate in the trip with thousands of his employees.
How rich is Indian billionaire Dilip Shanghvi?
According to Forbes India's latest report published on August 19, Dilip Shanghvi is currently ranked 5th on the list of India's richest people with estimated assets of 28.8 billion USD (about 721,302 billion VND).
With this fortune, he is ranked 61st in the ranking of the world's richest people.
In 2015, he surpassed billionaire Mukesh Ambani to become the richest person in India, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Born in 1955, Dilip Shanghvi is considered one of India's most successful and visionary businessmen. He is the founder and behind the outstanding development of Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. - India's first pharmaceutical corporation estimated to be worth 5 billion USD (about 124,362 billion VND).
Starting from scratch, Dilip Shanghvi started his career by helping his father run a small drug business. In 1982, at the age of 27, he founded Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Sun Pharma) with a capital of only 10,000 rupees (nearly 3 million VND) borrowed from his father.
From a small company that only produced one type of neurological drug, under the leadership of Dilip Shanghvi, Sun Pharma quickly developed and became one of the world's leading pharmaceutical corporations. His business strategy focuses on acquisitions and mergers of smaller companies. During its development, Sun Pharma has made more than 15 acquisitions of pharmaceutical companies globally.
One of the most notable deals was the merger of rival company Ranbaxy Laboratories worth 4 billion USD (about 99,490 billion VND) in 2014. This deal made Sun Pharma the number 1 pharmaceutical company in the country. India and 5th largest in the world.
Although he has stepped down from a direct executive position, Dilip Shanghvi still plays an important role on Sun Pharma's board of directors. He also held many other important positions such as member of the Board of the Reserve Bank of India, Chairman of the Board of Directors of IIT Bombay and Commissioner of the Rhodes Scholarship Program at Oxford University.
Regarding his personal life, Mr. Dilip is a devotee of Shrinathji and regularly makes pilgrimages with his family to the city of Nathdwara in Rajasthan, believed to be the abode of this god.
According to Economic Times, a friend once caught billionaire Shanghvi reading Harry Potter on the plane. He is said to have read all seven fantasy novels by British author JK Rowling.
He likes South Indian food. Mysore Cafe and Madras Cafe in Matunga are known to be this billionaire's favorite eateries in Mumbai.
An abstainer from alcohol and a vegetarian, Mr. Shanghvi is known to be a particularly private person, living a simple, unobtrusive life. A friend of billionaire Shanghvi said he and his wife, son Aalok, daughter-in-law and daughter, meet at least once a week for dinner. The family is also known to vacation together.
With huge assets and great influence in the business world, billionaire Dilip Shanghvi organizing a large-scale trip for 4,500 employees to Vietnam not only shows his generosity but also shows great potential. of Vietnam tourism in attracting large groups of tourists from India.
