1974, best friends Mr RS Agarwal and Mr RS Goenka started the Emami Group of Companies.

1978, Emami acquired Himani Ltd (incorporated as a Private Company in 1949). Himani, almost a century old company with decent brand equity in the Eastern India and a well laid out factory in Kolkata, was producing a number of cosmetics. 1984, the company launched its first flagship brand Boroplus Antiseptic Cream under Himani umbrella in . Many additional brands followed Boroplus including Boroplus Prickly Powder which came as a brand extension of the mother brand. It was during this period Emami started to become a household name all over India 1990 's was quite action-packed for Emami. Navratna Cool Oil came in under the Himani umbrella. The second factory was also opened at Pondicherry to increase production at the same time 1998, the introduction of new brands sustained and the distribution network of the company was extended to South India with Navratna spear heading the process. Emami Ltd was merged with Himani Ltd and its name was changed to Emami Ltd as per fresh certificate of incorporation 2005 Emami created a history in India by launching Fair and Handsome, the first fairness cream for men 2006 the company decided to introduce a Health Care Division and a number of new brands of Ayurvedic OTC medicines 2008 acquired major stake in Zandu Pharmaceuticals Works Ltd on the basis of huge business synergy between Zandu and Emami. Post the acquisition of Zandu Pharmaceuticals a century old household name in India, some of its prominent brands like Zandu Balm, Zandu Chyawanprash, Zandu Kesri Jeevan, Zandu Pancharishta, Sudarshan and Nityam Churna are also under Emamis basket of brands. 2009, Emami undertook a revamp of the Zandu products. It launched the re-vamped Zandu Kesari Jeevan, Zandu Chyawanprash and Zandu Balm . 2009-10 Emami has also acquired Lakhi Bilas (West Bengal local brand), Kings and Co and M Bhattacharya the oldest homeopathy company in India Emami has successfully established its brands through strong celebrity endorsements. It is the only corporate entity in the country to have both Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan as brand endorsers. Besides Amitabh and Shah Rukh, other celebrity endorsers of Emamis brand include Madhuri Dixit- Kareena Kapoor- Preity ZintaMalaika Arora Khan- Bipasha Basu-MS Dhoni- Suriya- Mahesh Babu- Dinesh Karthik- Amit Mishra- Virender Sehwag-Sachin Tendulkar- Harbhajan Singh-Zaheer Khan-, Govinda, Sourav Ganguly, Chiranjeevi, Surya and Upendra among others. In recent times a new corporate office Emami Tower has been added to the history of the company which houses Emami Limited as well as all the other Group companies under the brand in Kolkata. Emami has also been listed among the top 500 companies in BT-500 Most Valuable Companies of India in the private sector (Business Today) Brand Equity Most Trusted Brand 2011 have ranked Emami power brands Zandu balm, Fair and Handsome, Boroplus and Navratna among the top brands in the country. Forbes Asia 2011, has ranked Mr RS Agarwal and Mr RS Goenka among the 100 richest Indians