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Wadia Group A caring business that has helped India to grow for almost 300 years

Today, India can provide nearly everything it needs; our agriculture is self-sufficient. That was the base that changed India,” says Nusli Wadia, chairman of Wadia Group, an investment company headquartered in Mumbai.

Wadia Group’s history goes back to 1736, when Loeji Nusserwanjee Wadia, the company’s founder, opened a marine construction company that built ships for the British. Wadia became one of India’s first master shipbuilders and a pioneer in the global shipbuilding

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