V H Group
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| Private Limited | |
| Founded | 1970 |
| Headquarters | Pune, Maharashtra, India |
| Website | Venkys.com |
The V H Group is an Indian company with interests in poultry, processed food, animal vaccines and pharmaceuticals.
The V H Group has its headquarters in Pune, and has offices in London, Morocco, Switzerland, Syria, South Africa, Brazil, Moscow, UAE, Singapore, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia and The Philippines. The Group has production plants in India, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Switzerland, and exports to 42 countries across the world.
The V H Group is today owned and controlled by the family of B. V. Rao, who founded the company in 1970, along with couple of his friends, Jagapati Rao Chitturi being one of them. His daughter, Anuradha Desai, serves as chairperson whilst his sons, Balaji and Venkatesh Rao both sit on the board.
Businesses
- Venkateshwara Hatcheries Pvt. Ltd.
- Venky's (India) Limited
- VENCO
- VRB
- B.V.Bio-Corp Pvt. Ltd.
- Uttara Foods & Feeds Pvt. Ltd.
- Uttara Impex Pvt. Ltd.
- Eastern Hatcheries Ltd.
- Venky's Brazil Ltd.
- Venky's London Ltd. (Blackburn Rovers F.C.)
- Venky's Vietnam Ltd.
- Venky's Singapore Pvt. Ltd.
- VH Group Bangladesh
- Bala Industries & Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
Key People
- Anuradha Desai (Chairperson)
- B Venkatesh Rao (Vice-Chairman)
- B Balaji Rao (Managing Director & CEO)
- Lokesh Yadav (Director)
- A G Bauskar (Company Secretary)
- Jittendra M Desai (Director)
- C Jagapati Rao (Founder Director)
- Ashok Mahajan (Director)
- Surinder Kumar (Director)
- Amrit Kapur (Director)
- Rajeshwar Singh (Direct)
Sports
The group owns a controlling stake in the English Football League Championship football club Blackburn Rovers having bought 99.9% of the club's shares in November 2010 through a subsidiary, Venky's London Limited, in a deal worth £43 million by using a debt facility.[1] After sacking Sam Allardyce as the club's manager,[2] Steve Kean was given the job, an appointment which was shrouded in a great deal of controversy since Kean's agent Jerome Anderson had earlier played a major role in advising Venky's during the takeover of the club in the preceding months.[3][4][5] Venky's oversaw an unsuccessful period resulting in relegation to the Championship at the end of the 2011–12 Premier League season ending an 11-year run in the top flight.[6][7][8] Despite Kean leaving Blackburn Rovers in September 2012, criticism of Venky's running of the club has continued, with both fans and the media calling them into question.[9]
The group is also the sponsor for the Mumbai Fighters team in the World Series of Boxing and has sponsored the Indian Premier League, the ATP Mumbai Tennis Tournament and the Champions League Twenty20.
See also
References
- ↑ BBC Sport - Football - Rao family buy Blackburn Rovers from Jack Walker Trust
- ↑ Burnton, Simon (13 December 2010). "Sam Allardyce sacked as manager of Blackburn Rovers". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
- ↑ Conn, David. "How an agent came to hold so much power at Blackburn Rovers", The Guardian, 21 December 2010. Retrieved 02 August 2016.
- ↑ Hytner, David. "Steve Kean finds value of friends in high places at Blackburn Rovers", The Guardian, 16 December 2010. Retrieved 02 August 2016.
- ↑ "Blackburn Rovers board's dismay at Venky's conduct revealed in letter". The Guardian. 15 January 2012.
- ↑ Winter, Henry (8 May 2012). "Blackburn Rovers relegated from Premier League as Antolin Alcaraz scores only goal in Wigan's great escape". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
- ↑ "So why do the Blackburn owners Venkys not seem to care?". The Independent. 9 May 2012.
- ↑ "How Venky's wrecked and relegated Blackburn". The Mirror. 8 May 2012.
- ↑ "Venky's and other corporate vandals must be stopped from owning clubs". The Times. 3 September 2016.