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Pranav Vinod Adani is an Indian businessman and the director of Adani Enterprises. He is a member of the National Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry.[1][2][3][4]
Pranav Adani | |
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Nationality | Indian |
Occupation(s) | Director, Adani Enterprises Limited Chairman and Managing Director, Adani Agri Fresh Limited |
Spouse | Namrata Adani |
Relatives | Vinod Adani (Father) Gautam Adani (uncle) Priti Adani (aunt) Karan Adani (first-cousin) |
Adani was born into a Jain family. He is the son of Vinod Shantilal Adani, elder brother of Gautam Adani. He was graduated from Boston University in business management studies.[5] After that, he attended the Owner/President Management Program of Harvard Business School.[1][5]
Pranav Adani is married to Namrata,[6] who runs a non-governmental organization called 'Abhisar'.[7][better source needed]
He led a business venture with Singapore's agribusiness group Wilmar International Limited. The Adani Wilmar joint venture owns India's oil brand Fortune. The company hosts upwards of 450 manufacturing plants and a distribution network that spans more than 50 countries including India, Indonesia and China.[1]
Adani became the director of Agro at Adani Enterprises Ltd.[1] As chairman of Adani Agri Logistics Ltd, he also invested in grain storage technology and agricultural logistics. This model is being considered by state and central governments for nationwide adoption.[8]
He is a director of Adani Group's Oil and Gas and City Gas Distribution vertical, Adani Welspun Joint Venture.[9] In August 2009, Adani became a director of Adani Gas Limited, the largest private city gas distribution company in India. He is now its chairman. He has implemented city gas distribution projects in Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Faridabad, and Khurja.[1]
He has ventures in the real estate industry in the cities of Ahmedabad, Mumbai, and Gurgaon. He is involved in building a 600-acre project in Ahmedabad township under the Adani Real Estate Company.[citation needed] He also heads the global coal business of the Adani Group.[8] The project has upcoming expansions in Mumbai and Gurgaon.[10][failed verification]
In April 2015, Adani was appointed as an additional director of Adani Enterprises. He serves as a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry's National Council on Agriculture and National Council on Fast Moving Consumer Goods.[citation needed]
In January 2018, he addressed the Bengal Global Business Summit alongside Mamata Banerjee. He stated that the Adani Wilmar Limited will invest ₹750 crores ($108.3 million US) in the state.[11]
In March 2022, he spearheaded the listing of Adani Wilmar at the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange.[12]
He currently holds the following positions at the Adani Group companies:
Pranav introduced the 'Garv Hai' initiative to promote sports and support athletes in India to compete in international tournaments including the 2016 Rio Olympics. A few candidates across India were selected and assisted. In 2015 the campaign supported Indian shot-putter Inderjeet Singh, then Asia's best,[13] for the Asian Championships in China. The list included others like Khushbir Kaur and Shiva Thapa.
The Meadows, a part of the Shantigram, houses a football field in the centre lit by flood lights to promote football.[14][15][16][17]
Garv Hai has been re-launched for a second time as a long-term incubation programme to discover and support athletes in archery, shooting, boxing, wrestling and athletics for 2020 Summer Olympics, 2022 Asian Games and Commonwealth Games.[18]
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