The Adani Group (BSE: 512599) is a Gujarat based Indian conglomerate with the industrialist Gautam Adani as its

CMD and promoter.[1] The core business of the group is Commodities Trading, edible oil Manufacturing, Mundra port operations and distribution of Natural Gas. Adani group has more than 50 companies under it. The various companies under the group are:

Adani Enterprises Ltd. Adani Power Ltd. Adani Retail Ltd. Adani Wilmar Ltd. Gujarat Adani Energy Ltd. Adani Mining ltd.

Gujarat Adani Port Limited Trader (finance)

A trader is someone in finance who buys and sells financial instruments such as stocks, bonds, commodities and derivatives. A broker who simply fills buy or sell orders is not a trader, as they are merely executing instructions given to them. According to the Wall Street Journal in 2004, a managing director convertible-bond trader was earning between $700,000 and $900,000 on average.[1] According to Bloomberg, an oil trader with 10 years in the business is likely to earn at least US$1-million in 2011.[2] Traders are either professionals working in a financial institution or a corporation, or individual investors, or day traders. They buy and sell financial instruments traded in thestock markets, derivatives markets and commodity markets, comprising the stock exchanges, derivatives exchanges and the commodities exchanges.

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iCall India Limited Mundra Port and Special Economic Zone limited

Adani Agri Logistics Limited Adani Agri Fresh Limited Adani Properties ltd Adani Welspun ltd.

The corporate headquarters of the company are in the city of Ahmedabad, India. Adani is now in the power sector, too, coming up with a 4620MW thermal power project(Largest Project in India till now[citation needed]) in Mundra, Kutch district.The first 6 units of 2640 MW have been completed as reported by June 2011[citation needed]making it India's largest private commercial power producer . It has plans to set up a whole total of 16,500MW by 2015 and 20000MW by 2020[citation needed]. If completed, Adani Power will be the largest private company having largest power production on coal-based power. Adani Energy is one of the largest natural gas distributors in India. Adani Enterprises in August bought a coal mine in Australia for about Rs 12,600 crore (Rs 126 billion) in a cash and royalty deal. It will invest $6.9 billion in developing its recently acquired Australian coal mines. Group will develop mine, rail and port project in its Galilee Basin coal mine in Queensland, Australia to produce up to 60 million tonnes of coal a year at its peak.[1] The GAPL and the SEZ venture was merged before IPO so GAPL does stand as an entity now. GAPL is also in talk with Orissa government for setting up an all weather port near POSCO project. MPSEZ is the largest private port in India and growth shows it will be the no. 1 port by cargo handling by 2020. Adani Wilmer is the largest manufacturer of edible oil in India with a market share of about 45%. Adani Enterprises is the largest trading house of India in importing coal with a market share 60%. It also supplies coal to NTPC, India.Adani group became India's largest private coal mining company after Adani Enterprises bagged orissa mine rights.[2]ADANI group manages one management college namely AIIM and a medical college, GAIIM at Ahmedabad.Rajesh Adani, Vice Chairman of the Adani Group is nominated to the Finance Committee of the Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat Due to high growth, its flagship company, Adani Enterprises, was placed among the top 50 Asian Companies by Forbes Asia in the year 2009 and its rank is 1865 in Forbes Global 2000 for 2010.

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Adani Group is a business behemoth based in India having a global footprint with interests in Infrastructure, Power, Global Trading, Logistics, Energy, Port & SEZ, Mining, Oil & Gas, Agri Business, FMCG products, Real Estate Development, Bunkering, et al. It is a name well established among the distinguished corporate entities of India, with a young and highly motivated taskforce of professionals who are a prized asset of the organisation. Founded in 1988 with a capital of INR 500,000, Adani Enterprises Ltd. (formerly known as Adani Exports Ltd.) is today the flagship company of the Adani conglomerate which posted INR 260 billion revenue in the previous financial year. The Adani Group has many distinctions to its merit: Operator of the largest private port in India Developer of the largest multiproduct SEZ in India Owns the largest edible oil refining capacity in India One of the largest trading houses in India Largest Integrated Coal Management Firm in India Promoter of Indias first supercritical technology based power plant Operator of the worlds largest automated import Coal Terminal having 60 MnT capacity

The Adani Group is engaged in a continuous endeavour to maximise the realisation of potential in its employees and market opportunities by synergising the multiple ventures of the Group; thus creating an optimum business model that benefits both, stakeholders and society.