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Most people in the country consider a company's brand to be local or foreign based on its name. However, it is not easy to understand local or foreign brands just by looking at the names of the companies. Havells, Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals, Oyo etc. are such brands which after reading people guess that these are foreign brands.
Their names may sound foreign, but these are Indian companies.
Havells
Havells needs no introduction today. Havells' journey began with the name 'Haveli Ram Gandhi'. The Havells brand was started by school teacher Price Rai Gupta. He came to Delhi from Punjab and started the electrical business. He was the distributor of Havells Ram Gandhi. Later, Havells Ram Gandhi, which was facing financial crisis, was bought by Parthana Roy. Thus Havells Ram Gandhi became Havells of Price Roy.
OYO
Often people book a room in OYO hotel and stay there but still they do not know its full name. The full name of the hotel booking site is On Your Own. OYO founder and owner Ritesh Agarwal initially named it 'Oraval'.
Ranbaxy Ranbaxy
Ranbaxy The country's famous pharmaceutical company Ranbaxy was started in 1937 by Ranbir Singh and Gurbaksh Singh. It has recently been bought by Sun Pharma. The deal for complete acquisition of Ranbaxy has been done for about Rs 19 thousand crores (3.2 billion dollars). According to the deal, Japanese company Daiichi Sankyo will have 9 percent stake in Sun Pharma.
And
Anita Dongre, who started with just 2 sewing machines, has built a fashion brand worth crores AND.