The Lohia family is a business family of
Indian origin, doing business in the textile and petrochemicals industries under the umbrella corporate name Indorama. They own Indonesia/Singapore-based
Indorama Corporation and Thailand-based
Indorama Ventures, and were ranked by ''
Forbes'' as the 29th richest family in Asia in 2017.
The family progenitor is
Mohan Lal Lohia
Mohan Lal Lohia (21 December 1930 – 1 June 2017) was an Indian businessman and business magnate, who founded the Indorama Corporation and the Lohia Foundation.
The billionaires, Sri Prakash Lohia and Aloke Lohia are his sons.
Early life and ...
, who migrated to Indonesia in 1973, where he established Indorama Synthetics with his son
Sri Prakash
Shri (; , ) is a Sanskrit term denoting resplendence, wealth and prosperity, primarily used as an honorific.
The word is widely used in South and Southeast Asian languages such as Marathi, Malay (including Indonesian and Malaysian), Javanes ...
in 1975. Sri Prakash's younger brother
Aloke
ALOKE is an American post-hardcore band that was formed by Christian Zucconi, Paul DeCourcey and Alex Charpentier in Ossining, New York, in 2004. During their career, the band released one live album and three EPs, before disbanding in the summer ...
moved to Thailand and established Indorama Ventures in 1994. Indorama Corporation was established in Singapore in 2009 as a holding company for Sri Prakash's side of the business, and is managed by his son Amit. Mohan Lal's oldest son, Om Prakash, runs Indo Rama Synthetics in India, which is owned independently from the two international corporate groups. The family also has ties to
Lakshmi Mittal, whose sister Seema is married to Sri Prakash.
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Business families of India