6. Lakme:
This Indian brand of cosmetics is owned by Hindustan Unilever and run by CEO Pushkaraj Shenai. Lakme started as a 100 percent subsidiary of Tata Oil Mills (Tomco), part of the Tata Group. The brand was named after the French opera Lakme, which itself is the French form of Indian Godess Lakshmi, also renowned for her beauty.
It was started in 1952, famously because the then Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was concerned that Indian women were spending precious foreign exchange on beauty products, and personally requested JRD Tata to manufacture them in India. Simone Tata joined the company as director and went on to become its chairman.
Lakme also started its new business in the beauty industry by setting up Lakme Beauty Salons all over India. The company is also the title sponsor for Lakme Fashion Week (LFW), a bi-annual fashion event which takes place in Mumbai.
7. Airtel:
Bharti Airtel Limited is an Indian multinational telecommunications services company headquartered in New Delhi, India. It operates in 20 countries across South Asia, Africa and the Channel Islands. Headed by Sunil Bharti Mittal, it is the largest cellular service provider in India, with 192.22 million subscribers as of August 2013. Airtel is also the largest mobile operator in South Asia and the fourth largest in the world by subscriber base.
8. Jaguar:
It's a British multinational car manufacturer brand headquartered in Whitley, England is owned by the Indian company Tata Motors since 2008. On June 2, 2008, the sale to Tata was completed at a cost of 1.7 billion pounds. A new assembly plant was also opened at Pune in April 2011. Jaguar has, in recent years, manufactured cars for the British Prime Minister, the most recent delivery being an XJ in May 2010. The company also holds royal warrants from Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles.
9. Infosys:
Headquartered in Bangalore, Infosys Limited is an Indian multinational corporation that provides business consulting, information technology, software engineering and outsourcing services. Infosys is the third-largest India-based IT services company by 2014 revenues, and the fifth largest employer of H-1B visa professionals in the United States in the financial year 2013. On February 15, 2015, its market capitalisation was 2,63,735 crores rupees (42.51 billion dollars), making it India's sixth largest publicly traded company. On March 31, 2014, Infosys had 890 clients across 50 countries including United States, China, Australia, Japan, Middle East and Europe.
10. Imperial Tobacco Company (ITC):
Imperial Tobacco Company (ITC) Limited is an Indian conglomerate headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal. Established in 1910 as the Imperial Tobacco Company of India Limited, the company's diversified business includes numerous brands (Gold Flake cigarettes, Aashirvaad food products, Wills Lifestyle apparels, John Players, Fiama Di Wills, Classmate stationery products, etc.) and hotels (MyFortune, WelcomHotel) across the country.The company had an annual turnover of 8.31 billion dollars and a market capitalisation of 45 billion dollars in the financial year 2012-2013. It employs over 25,000 people at more than 60 locations across India and is part of Forbes 2000 list.