Assistant Manager - Production

With a current diversified portfolio in the areas of infrastructure, tyres, information technology, health, energy, and plantations, RPG Enterprises was first established by Rama Prasad Goenka in 1979 with Agarpara Jute, Asian Cables, Murphy India and Phillips Carbon Black as constituents. This Indian industrial conglomerate currently comprises of over 15 subsidiary companies operating in the fields of tyres, technology, infrastructure, and speciality, with a turnover exceeding US$ 3 billion.

With Harsh Goenka, the eldest son of R.P. Goenka, leading the group as its chairman, RPG Group has employed more than 20,000 employees and supplies its products to more than 100 countries around the world.

Organizational Structure:

Sector-wise Subsidiaries:

• Tyres
  • Ceat
  • Ceat Sri Lanka
  • Ceat Bangladesh
  • Ceat Specialty
• Infrastructure
  • Kec International
  • Sae Towers
• Information Technologies
  • Ensar Technologies
• Speciality
  • Rpg Life Sciences
  • Raychem Rpg
  • Harrisons Malayalam
• RPG Ventures
  • Seniority

Key People:

• Harsh Goenka: The current chairman of the RPG Group, Harsh Goenka joined RPG as Managing Director of CEAT in 1983 at the age of 24. He is a BA in Economics from the University of Calcutta and an MBA from the International Institute of Management Development (IMD), Lausanne, Switzerland.
• Pramod Menon: The Group’s Chief Financial Officer and a Member of the Board of RPG Enterprises Limited, Pramod Menon is an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and a graduate of the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India.

Mergers & Acquisitions:

• SAE Towers Holdings LLC: SAE Towers Holdings LLC, was acquired in September 2010, by KEC International Limited, an RPG Group company. SAE Towers Holdings LLC is a limited liability company incorporated in Delaware, together with its subsidiary companies in Brazil, Mexico, and the USA.
• Jay Railway Signaling Private Limited: On September 23, 2010, KEC International Limited, an RPG Group company, announced the acquisition of Jay Railway Signaling Private Limited.
• Harrisons Malayalam’s Rubber Division: In 2003, CEAT Tyres acquired Harrisons Malyalam's Rubber Division. With this demerger, HML got to focus better on the core business area of Tea and CEAT Tyres got an improvement in its raw material sourcing options.

News and Facts:

• Smiley strategy: RPG group rebuilds its identity with happiness as the main focus- The RPG group that began life as a tyre company 139 years ago and has today expanded its influence into a host of other areas is rebuilding its identity with happiness as its core value and a smiley emoji as a representation of its corporate vision.
• RPG’s Seniority will launch private label products by the end of 2019- Seniority, which is claimed to be one of the largest online shopping portal exclusively for senior citizens, is planning to launch private label designed products by this year. In the next five years, they aim to be leaders in the senior lifestyle industry. As a senior care brand, they recognize that they can’t just sell products: They have to become an inseparable part of the lives of their target group.

Corporate Social Responsibility:

The CSR initiatives of the RPG Group are untaken by The RPG Foundation, which is a Public Charitable Trust registered under the Bombay Public Trust Act, 1950. Implementing sustainable initiatives which will have maximum societal impact, RPG Foundation works in domains of eye care, women empowerment, education, and local community development.

• Eye Healthcare: Focussing on Preventive, Promotive, Rehabilitative and Curative eye health interventions, RPG’s flagship program, Netranjali was launched; aiming towards reaching out to beneficiaries ranging from children to elderly to special groups like truck drivers and bus drivers. Since its formation, Netranjali has screened over 550,000 individuals across India and distributed more than 200,000 free spectacles.
• Education: The schooling program under the RPG Foundation-The Pehlay Akshar- seeks to address this social need gap. Working with government school children for 6 continuous years, the project appreciates, motivates and engages young learners to actively participate and learn.
• Women Empowerment: RPG Foundation’s Swayam Project imparts training to women from a less privileged background to be trained in skills that will enable them to procure jobs in the transport/logistic sector and healthcare sector. This project has trained more than 3500 women to take up employment in the Transport & Logistics sector and more than 3000 women are trained as Healthcare professionals since the inception of this project.
• Community Development: Project Jeevan of the RPG Foundation focuses on the holistic development of Communities around our Plant locations and stakeholders at large to promote better living and providing equal opportunities. Issues such as lack of safe drinking water in the communities and schools around the factory locations of RPG group companies have been addressed by the Project Jeevan by improving access to clean drinking water.