JCT Limited
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JCT Limited is a large manufacturer of textiles and is the flagship company of the Thapar Group, a large Indian conglomerate. BILT and Crompton Greaves being other companies of this group. L. M. Thapar is one of the groups leading names.
[edit] The Thapar Group
Started by Karam Chand Thapar in the early part of the twentieth centure, the following company are or have been a part of the group. :- Ballarpur Industries Limited [1] , Bilt Paper Holdings Limited, Orient Engineering and Commercial Company Limited, The Pioneer, Sohna Stud Farm Pvt Limited, TT & G Trading Pvt Limited, iBilt Technologies Limited, Bilt Middle East Pvt Limited, Himalayan Hideaways Pvt Limited, Karam Chand Thapar & Bros Limited, Lavasa Corporation Limited and KCT Papers Limited are some of the Thapar group companies. Other Thapar group companies and concerns in India are, Thapar house on Janpath lane, Tiger Bay restaurant, Global Green. The Crompton Greaves [2], Greaves Cotton and JCT group is with MM Thapar. His son Samir Thapar runs JCT Mills and JCT Limited and his son Arjun Thapar runs JCT electronics.[3] Bilt Chemicals and Bharat Starch was vested with BM Thapar and hence would be under his sons Gautam and Karan Thapar's control. Gautam has also been named by L.M. Thapar as the successor of his group of companies. IM Thapar's son Vikram Thapar looks after his group which includes the Calcutta based coal trading business K. C Thapar started out with and prawn farms for prawn exports as well as the Tiger Bay restaurant chain.
Thapar Institute of Engineering and Tech is an engineering college in Patiala founded by the Thapar's. JCT Mills FC is a Football club of JCT Mills.