First Jobs of Indian Corporate Leaders
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siliconindia | Monday, 02 July 2012, 08:55 IST
3. Brijmohan Lall Munjal: Brijmohan Lall Munjal is the founder of the Hero MotoCorp, which owns Hero Honda Motors, and is one of the richest people in India. Brijmohan was born in 1923 at Kamalia district, Toba Tek Singh in unpartitioned Punjab, British India, to a middle class Arora/Khatri family. After finishing his formal education, he worked at the Army Ordnance Factory, before shifting his base to India after partition. He and his brothers initially started a business by supplying components to manufacturers of bicycles in and around Amritsar. Gradually they extended their distribution network and by early 1950s they started supplying components of bicycles throughout India.