The Amalgamations Group (a.k.a. Simpson Group) is an Indian business conglomerate based in

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which has several business interests in Manufacturing Tractors, Automobile ancillaries, Plantation, Trading and services. The most notable being the

Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited (TAFE) is an Indian agricultural machinery manufacturer based in Chennai, India. TAFE is the third-largest tractor manufacturer in the world and the second largest in India by volume. Description TAFE – ...

(Better known as TAFE), Simpsons & Company, Bimetal Bearings, India Pistons, T. Stanes & Co, Amco Batteries,

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and Addisons Paint. The group today has over 47 companies with 50 manufacturing plants.

History

The Amalgamations Group was established by

S. Anantharamakrishnan Sivasailam Anantharamakrishnan (1905 – 18 April 1964), affectionately called "J" was an Indian industrialist and business tycoon who founded and led the Amalgamations Group of industries from 1945 to 1964. Anantharamakrishnan was born in ...

who during the early 1940s was a Director at Simpsons & Co. In 1945 he took over the management and later consolidated several British owned companies with interests in plantation, engineering, trading and services. Muthiah, Pg 53 According to popular Chennai historian S. Muthiah, the successful takeover was the result of an overheard conversation at a Hotel Connemara.

External links

Official website

References

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