Action Group is an industrial conglomerate with expertise in steel, power and manufacturer of the Action Shoes brand.
Various subsidiaries
Action Shoes is the most widely known business of the group. The group started from the shoe manufacturing industry and upon its success spread to other fields of steel, chemicals, computer monitors, housing projects, health care and retails. Cricketer
Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (; ; born 24 April 1973) is an Indian former international cricketer who List of India national cricket captains#Men's cricket, captained the Indian national team. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest cricketer ...
was once its brand ambassador.
In the electronic field, the group has two brands of inverters of Microtek and Okaya. The group started with the business of interior infrastructure, named Action Tesa, and in the first year of 2011 had a turnover of ₹1.5 billion (US$22 million). Under the business name of Action Ispat, the group owns two steel projects at
Jharsuguda
Jharsuguda (ଝାରସୁଗୁଡ଼ା) is a city and district headquarters of Jharsuguda district of Odisha, India. It is an industrial hub, consisting mainly of metallurgical industries. It is well connected to major cities of India t ...
in
Orissa
Odisha (), formerly Orissa ( the official name until 2011), is a state located in Eastern India. It is the eighth-largest state by area, and the eleventh-largest by population, with over 41 million inhabitants. The state also has the thir ...
and
Raipur
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in
Chhattisgarh
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, each with the capacity of 0.25 million tonnes and planned to expand the Orissa plant to 2.5 metric tons by 2016.
*Action Shoes
*Action Ispat
*Action Chemicals
*Action Tesa
*Action Retail
*Microtek Inverters
*Pioneer Flex
*Sunsity Projects
Other initiatives
In 2010, the Action Group, along with the NGO Manav Sevarth Trust, opened the Action Cancer Hospital in
Delhi
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. At the time of inauguration, which was done by the then President of India
Pratibha Patil
Pratibha Devisingh Patil (born 19 December 1934), also known as Pratibha Patil Shekhawat, is an Indian politician and lawyer who served as the president of India from 2007 to 2012. She was the first woman to become the president of India. A m ...
, the hospital had 150 beds. It is also associated with
Sri Balaji Action Medical Institute, New Delhi.
Court case for Microtek Inverters
Microtek Inverters which is owned by Action Group was sued by a customer in 2003 as a Microtek inverter in his house caught fire due to a short circuit in the inverter's unit. He filed a consumer complaint before the Delhi district forum, and the forum asked Microtek to pay a sum of ₹2,50,000 as compensation to the customer. Microtek filed for a revision before the national commission but lost.
References
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Conglomerate companies of India
Companies based in New Delhi
Indian companies established in 1972
1972 establishments in Delhi
Conglomerate companies established in 1972