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Who is Sanjiv Goenka?

Sanjiv Goenka is an Indian businessman and Chairman of RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group. In April 2001, Sanjiv Goenka took over as the youngest-ever President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). He was also the president of All India Management Institute (AIMA), and a member of the Prime Minister’s Council on Trade & Industry.
 
According to Forbes magazine, his net worth is $2.8 billion as of January 2022. He is also the current Chairman of the Board of Directors of Woodlands Medical Centre Ltd, Kolkata.
 
Sanjiv Goenka's background
 
Born in 1961, Goenka is the younger son of the RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group’s Chairman Emeritus Rama Prasad Goenka. R P Goenka established RPG Enterprises in 1979 with Phillips Carbon Black, Asian Cables, Agarpara Jute and Murphy India as the constituents.
 
In April 2001, the son took over as the youngest-ever president of the CII, was appointed Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and currently serves on the board of the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata.
 
Sanjiv Goenka's business
 
Goenka controls the $4 billion (revenue) conglomerate RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group, headquartered in Kolkata. Its flagship is 122-year-old power utility, CESC, which Goenka has restructured into four separate companies.
 
The group's businesses include power and energy, carbon black manufacturing, retail, IT-enabled services, FMCG, media and entertainment, and agriculture, and has over 44,000 employees.
 
Other assets include supermarket chain Spencer's and snacks brand Too Yumm!, which his son Shashwat looks after. Goenka owns a majority stake in football team ATK and had the two-year franchise for the Indian Premier League cricket team Rising Pune Supergiants. In 2021, the RPSG Group was the winner for the Lucknow IPL franchise worth Rs 7,090 crore.

Latest Updates on Sanjiv Goenka

The rapidly rising cost of fuel, owing to the Russia-Ukraine crisis and demand-supply factors, is a short-to medium-term constraint, CESC Chairman Sanjiv Goenka has said.

Updated On: 06 Jul 2022 | 8:08 PM IST

LSG have brought wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock, batter Manish Pandey, all-rounders Deepak Hooda and West Indian Jason Holder on day one of the auction at Bengaluru

Updated On: 12 Feb 2022 | 4:32 PM IST

On 'IPL: Selection Day' show on Star Sports, Goenka announced that Rahul along with Australia all-rounder Marcus Stoinis and uncapped India leg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi were Lucknow's picks

Updated On: 22 Jan 2022 | 1:49 PM IST

So, clearly, the two new players have a lot of options to be the winners

Updated On: 01 Nov 2021 | 6:10 AM IST

The genesis of the RP-Sanjiv Goenka group lies in a family settlement that formalised a division of assets between brothers Harsh and Sanjiv Goenka in 2010

Updated On: 31 Oct 2021 | 2:15 AM IST

Lucknow Franchise will be owned and run by the company along with private/unlisted companies of RP-SG Group, through a newly incorporated entity

Updated On: 26 Oct 2021 | 11:34 PM IST

In a Q&A, the company's chairman dwells on his firm's deal with Hola SL and says more deals in media could happen in the future

Updated On: 05 Nov 2020 | 2:27 PM IST

RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group Chairman Sanjiv Goenka said that "a big banyan tree of Indian democracy" is no more

Updated On: 31 Aug 2020 | 10:21 PM IST

Digital will be a crucial arm of the media. I am not sure whether it will be at the cost of print, but it will acquire importance. It is definitely being consumed, says RPSG Chairman

Updated On: 03 Jul 2020 | 12:48 AM IST

Kolkata Games and Sports (KGS), an RPSG venture, which owns the ATK brand, will be merged with Mohun Bagan Football Club Pvt Ltd to form a new company

Updated On: 17 Jan 2020 | 2:03 PM IST

Within a year of launch, Too Yumm! achieved sales of Rs 200 crore, growing at 15-20 per cent month on month - one of the fastest in the country to do so

Updated On: 20 Oct 2019 | 8:18 PM IST

Sanjiv Goenka, chairman of RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group, talks about a road map, which includes taking Carvaan to the next level

Updated On: 05 Mar 2019 | 11:40 PM IST

Focussing on expanding its product portfolio as well as its geographical presence in the country, the RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group has been looking at acquisitions

Updated On: 14 May 2018 | 10:24 PM IST

Nine teams comprising celebrity golfers, corporate honchos to tee off on Nov 10

Updated On: 07 Nov 2019 | 8:43 PM IST

Goenka tells how he has changed his business repertoire and why he still prefers to stay off Twitter

Updated On: 12 May 2017 | 11:59 PM IST

Gross revenues of the group in FY17 stood at Rs 19,330 crore

Updated On: 24 Apr 2017 | 2:51 AM IST

Group is planning to reduce its dependence on power generation business by expanding in other areas

Updated On: 11 Apr 2017 | 12:14 AM IST

Says group would enter into other FMCG segments like personal care and healthcare in due course

Updated On: 10 Apr 2017 | 3:47 PM IST