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[edit] POV
The article is pretty one-sided and has much of POV. Can anyone put an NPOV tag to the article or get it cleaned up? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 59.162.228.172 (talk • contribs) .
- I've added a {{POV}} tag. Can you point out some areas that need improvement? jareha (comments) 09:28, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, the article is about a flamebouyant,lavish lifestyle personality. So even the fact of matter kind of writing would appear a bit one sided. (or is it that his 'other side' of the personality too be listed!!!, i'm not sure of any thing worth mention except the political ambitions mentioned already). Can someone quote a few exampels of the one sided statements from the articles, so that a suitable re phrasing and the eventual removal of the NPOV tag can me done Pratheepps 09:38, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
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- I wanted to add this following section but it could be one sided.
Vijay Mallya is the Chairman of public companies both in India as well as in the USA. He has been the Chairman of Aventis Pharma India (previously Hoechst) as well as the Chairman of Bayer CropScience in India (previously Agrevo) for over 20 years, in addition to his Chairmanship of several other corporations.
Vijay Mallya has received several professional awards both in India and overseas. He was also conferred a Doctorate of Philosophy in Business Administration, by the Southern California University, Irvine. He has also been nominated as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum.
He is a keen sportsman and is an ardent aviator and yachtsman of distinction. He not only participates in various sporting events but also supports various sporting activities worldwide, particularly for the under privileged.
he has contributed generously to various Charities and Foundations in several countries in addition to establishing The Mallya Hospital, The Mallya-Aditi School and the Vittal Mallya Scientific Research Foundation in Bangalore, India.--Ageo020 18:13, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
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Upon assuming the position of Chairman in October 1983, Vijay Mallya initiated the process of defining a corporate structure with performance accountability, inducting professional management and consolidating the unwieldy empire into individual operating divisions.
In 1988, Vijay Mallya became a non-resident Indian to pursue global opportunities and to transform the UB Group into India’s first multinational. While, in the initial stages, overseas representative offices had been commissioned, the real break was in 1988 when Vijay Mallya, in a leveraged buyout acquired the global Berger Paints Group with operating companies across four continents. The exit strategy for this investment was profitably executed when Vijay Mallya successfully directed five Initial Public Offerings on the London, Singapore (Main Boards), Nairobi, Jamaica and Abidjan Stock Exchanges. The paints business was divested for significant value in 1996.
Vijay Mallya also founded a software company in the USA in 1993 which was subsequently listed on the NASDAQ in 1996 and which provides a considerable window of opportunity to the vast US market. He also initiated several ventures for the promotion and globalization of UB brands and, in particular, Kingfisher and McDowell.
In 1990, following the Government of India’s liberalised economic policies, Vijay Mallya decided that the UB Group would only retain interests in businesses that were globally competitive and which did not depend upon fiscal tariff protection. He also decided to focus on areas of core competence and transformed the vastly diversified UB conglomerate into a handful of key operating businesses.
All this is from the UB website, hence is copyrighted. --Ageo020 18:26, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
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After a year, he replaced R G N Price as the chairman of the company.
United Breweries made its initial impact by manufacturing bulk beer for the British troops, which was transported in huge barrels or "Hogsheads". Kingfisher, the Group's most visible and profitable brand, made a modest entry in the sixties.During the 1950's and 60's, the company expanded greatly by acquiring other breweries. First was the addition of McDowell as one of the Group subsidiaries, a move which helped United Breweries to extend its portfolio to wines and spirits business. Strategically, the Group moved into agro-based industries and medicines when Mallya acquired Kissan Products and formed a long-term relationship with Hoechst AG of Germany to create the pharmaceutical company now known as Aventis Pharma.
Following his father's untimely death, Vittal Mallya's son Mr. Vijay Mallya assumed the Group's mantle, also at an early age of 28, in 1983. He shaped the Group as a true global conglomerate, with the aid of diverse businesses.
The Pegasus
The ubiquitous flying winged horse, which is the symbol of the United Breweries, FIRST found its exalted place as the Group logo nearly six decades ago. Then, the Helladic horse – associated with beer and nectar in Greek mythology - carried a beer cask between the wings, ostensibly because beer formed the core operations of the Group. Later, the beer cask was removed to represent the Group’s multifaceted operations that stretch far beyond beer. Now, it was just the Pegasus, flying high.
Now a brand new avatar of the Pegasus is ready to take centre stage. The new UB Group identity has been redesigned to reflect the spirit of an organization which has reinvented itself, grown many times over, consolidated leadership, has a global outlook and is soaring to its destiny.
Dr Vijay Mallya - Group Chairman
Vijay Mallya, 50, was elected as Chairman of United Breweries by shareholders, following the demise of his late father in 1983 at the young age of 28.
Prior to being entrusted with the responsibilities of a classical Indian Corporate conglomerate, Vijay Mallya worked for the American Hoechst Corporation (now Sanofi-Aventis) in the USA and with Jenson & Nicholson in the U.K. Since 1980, he assisted his father, then Chairman of the UB Group in managing the important Brewing and Spirits Divisions and in re-launching the Kingfisher Brand of Beer. In 1983, the sales volume of the UB Spirits division was approximately 2.85 million cases and UB’s beer business trailed behind that of Golden Eagle from Mohan Meakins. Also included in the Group were activities such as Pharmaceuticals, Agrochemicals, Paints, Monomers and Polymers, the manufacture of Electro-mechanical Batteries, the manufacture of food products and carbonated beverages, a fast food Pizza chain and several medium and small scale industrial units.--Ageo020 18:26, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
