“Manikchand Group”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

Manikchand Group is a group of industries in India that primarily started out as a company that produced chewable tobacco products called 'Gutka'. Today, Manikchand Gutka is the leading producer of Gutkas in India.This enterprise is very famous for having sponsored the FILMFARE AWARDS for many years.

Profile

Headquartered in Pune, the Manikchand Group is a privately owned group of industries in India. It primarily started out as a company that produced chewable tobacco products called 'Gutka' around six decades ago.^[1] The group is diversified into Pan Masala, Mouth Freshner, Packaged Water(Oxyrich), Offset Printing, Wedding Cards(JRD Print pack), Flexible laminated Packaging(DIL), Electrical Switches(Xen), Flour Mills(MRFM), Construction, Water Bottle Preforms. Some of the industry products act as a front for surrogate advertising through the audio-video media channels due to strict restrictions or bans on tobacco advertising in India.^[2] Its products are exported to more than 30 countries worldwide.^[3]

Ownership

The company is owned by Rasiklal Manikchand Dhariwal and son Prakash Rasiklal Dhariwal was valued at Rs. 80billion (8000 crore) around 2007.^[4] Rasiklal has led a somewhat controversial life, with raids on his property in August 1997 where assets worth Rs. 116 million (11.6crore) were found in cash and kind.^[5] He was also in the news in 2005 for alleged links with the underworld mafia. Rasiklal and Jagdish Joshi, of Goa Gutka, were interrogated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)), India for allegedly helping noted gangster, Dawood Ibrahim to build a gutka plant in Karachi.^[6] He has two wives, one who stays in Shirur while the other stays in the Koregaon Park suburb of Pune.^[7] He died on 24 October 2017 in Pune because of salivary gland cancer.^[8]The owner was in the news in 2017 for his new house costing Rs.650 crore approx.

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://manikchand.net/about.html |title=Welcome to Manikchand Group |publisher=Manikchand.net |date= |accessdate=2010-12-30}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3310293.stm |title=South Asia | India to ban tobacco advertising |publisher=BBC News |date=2003-12-11 |accessdate=2010-12-30}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/gutkha-story-uncovers-mafia-links_159917.html |title=Gutkha story uncovers mafia links |publisher=Moneycontrol.com |date= |accessdate=2010-12-30}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.tobaccotodayonline.com/tto_Magazine.asp?Magazine_Code=1002 |title=Tobacco Today online |publisher=Tobacco Today online |date= |accessdate=2010-12-30}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/19970806/21850683.html |title=Dhariwals unperturbed by raids on gutkha empire |publisher=Indianexpress.com |date=1997-08-06 |accessdate=2010-12-30}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.tehelka.com/story_main10.asp?filename=ts022605Dawoods_relative.asp |title=The People's Paper |publisher=Tehelka |date= |accessdate=2010-11-23}}
7. ^{{cite news|first=Rakesh | last=Bhatnagar |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2005-03-11/delhi/27849536_1_rasiklal-manikchand-dhariwal-jamruddin-alias-dhariwal-and-joshi |title=Rasiklal Dhariwal to appears before CBI on Apr 4 |newspaper=The Times of India |date=2005-03-11 |accessdate=2010-12-30}}
8. ^{{cite web|author=Gunjan Shingavi, TNN |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/rasiklal-manikchand-dhariwal-passes-away/article19914116.ece |title=Rasiklal Dhariwal Died suffering from cancer. |publisher=The Times of India |date=2017-10-25 |accessdate=2010-10-25}}