{"id":1808,"date":"2019-06-21T04:59:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T04:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2019-06-21T04:59:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T04:59:17","slug":"veteran-industrialist-bm-khaitan-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/veteran-industrialist-bm-khaitan-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran industrialist BM Khaitan passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVeteran industrialist and Williamson Magor Group\npatriarch<strong>&nbsp;Brij\nMohan Khaitandied<\/strong>&nbsp;on<strong>&nbsp;1\nJune 2019<\/strong>&nbsp;at his residence in Kolkata. He was&nbsp;<strong>92<\/strong>. Khaitan is\nsurvived by his younger son Aditya and daughter Divya Jalan. Also known as\nthe&nbsp;<strong>\u201cevergreen tea\nman of India\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;globally, he had made the tea industry&nbsp;<strong>\u201cIndian-owned\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong>in\nthe twilight era of independence.<br><br><strong>Mr.Khaitan&#8217;s\ncareer:<\/strong><br>\nKhaitan had recently resigned as nonexecutive\nchairman from the boards of&nbsp;<strong>Eveready\nIndustries and McLeod Russel.<\/strong>&nbsp;He continued to serve as\nchairman emeritus in both these firms. Considered a visionary, he has left an\nindelible mark on the world of entrepreneurship, education, business ethics,\nand service to mankind.&nbsp;<br>\nKhaitan developed the<strong>&nbsp;Williamson Magor Group<\/strong>&nbsp;as\nthe largest tea producer in the world. After making his fortune in the tea\nbusiness, he acquired the Indian business of Union Carbide, Eveready\nIndustries, in 1993, pipping the Wadias of Bombay Dyeing in a<strong>&nbsp;$96.5 million&nbsp;<\/strong>deal.\nIt was the largest corporate takeover then. His demise marks the end of an era\nand loss of a leader and guide for the Indian tea industry.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran industrialist and Williamson Magor Group patriarch&nbsp;Brij Mohan Khaitandied&nbsp;on&nbsp;1 June 2019&nbsp;at his residence in Kolkata. He was&nbsp;92. Khaitan is survived by his younger son Aditya and daughter Divya Jalan. Also known as the&nbsp;\u201cevergreen tea man of India\u201d&nbsp;globally, he had made the tea industry&nbsp;\u201cIndian-owned\u201d&nbsp;in the twilight era of independence. Mr.Khaitan&#8217;s career: Khaitan had recently resigned as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1810,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions\/1810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}