GDP and Major Companies Based in Kolkata
According a Pricewaterhouse Cooper's report, as of 2009, Kolkata's economic output as measured by gross domestic product as 104 US dollars, and ranks third among South Asian cities, behind Mumbai and Delhi. However, As of 2010, Kolkata, with an the estimated Gross domestic product (GDP) by purchasing power parity of 150 billion dollars, ranked third among South Asian cities, after Mumbai and Delhi. With its huge economy and cheap living expenses it is one of the World's major center of business in GDP PPP terms. Many industrial units, of large Indian corporations, whose product range is varied and includes - engineering products, electronics, electrical equipment, cables, steel, leather, textiles, jewellery, frigates, automobiles, railway coaches, wagons, tea, paper, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, tobacco, food products, jute products etc. are Headquartered in Kolkata. Recently the city has been transformed to a major Information Technology hub in India.
Some notable companies Headquartered in Kolkata include ITC Limited, H R Group, Tata Steel Processing & Distribution Ltd, Coal India Limited, Haldia Petrochemicals, Exide Industries, Hindustan Motors, Britannia Industries, Bata India, Birla Corporation, CESC Limited, RPG Group, Bengal Ambuja, Linc Pen & Plastics, Philips India, Eveready Industries, Visa Group, Damodar Valley Corporation, India Govt. Mint and Peerless Group, Hindustan Motors, Usha Martin, Jai Balaji group, Orient Airways, KKN Group, Chirag Computers, Bengal Ambuja, Berger Paints India Ltd, SIMOCO (First Wireless Equipment and Mobile phone manufacturers from East India), Emami Ltd., Eveready Industries India Ltd.,Stewarts & Lloyds Of India, Ltd., and Titagarh Wagons,and National Insurance Company.
Among these three of the Forbes Global 2000 listed companies are Headquartered in Kolkata, which includes ITC Limited, Allahabad Bank and Uco Bank.
Read more about this topic: Economy Of Kolkata
Famous quotes containing the words major, companies and/or based:
“The major men
That is different. They are characters beyond
Reality, composed thereof. They are
The fictive man created out of men.
They are men but artificial men.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The recent attempt to secure a charter from the State of North Dakota for a lottery company, the pending effort to obtain from the State of Louisiana a renewal of the charter of the Louisiana State Lottery, and the establishment of one or more lottery companies at Mexican towns near our border, have served the good purpose of calling public attention to an evil of vast proportions.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)
“Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creature—this is nature’s essence, its immutable law, this is what it’s based on and what it adheres to.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)