Activities
KP Singh made Gurgaon a world-famous outsourcing destination, within a time period of 10 years, because of his world-class earthquake-proof office buildings, apartments, shopping malls and leisure facilities (including the DLF GaMY Player designed Golf Course).
Gurgaon is renowned for its large number of call centers and shopping malls.
Under his tenure, as the Chairman of DLF, the company went for an initial public offering in 2007 and made about $2.24 billion. It is one of the largest IPOs in India and was soon followed by an upsurge in the market capitalization of the company to a level of $24.5 billion, making Singh and his family one of the richest clans in the world. Also, in 2008, he was briefly the world’s richest real estate tycoon.
Jack Welch, the former chairman and CEO of General Electric, told in one of his interview that Singh was one of the initiator for GE’s entry into India.
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