Half of India's biggest companies were born before 1990
Each dot is one company, stacked by the decade it was registered. 1,244 of India's biggest listed companies.
What the chart shows
Half of India's 1,244 biggest listed companies were set up before 1990: 634 of them. The typical one was registered in 1989.
Companies set up in each decade
| 1800s | 3 |
|---|---|
| 1900s | 9 |
| 1910s | 11 |
| 1920s | 17 |
| 1930s | 31 |
| 1940s | 39 |
| 1950s | 53 |
| 1960s | 79 |
| 1970s | 107 |
| 1980s | 285 |
| 1990s | 303 |
| 2000s | 187 |
| 2010s | 109 |
| 2020s (so far) | 11 |
The oldest
| 1863 | Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation |
|---|---|
| 1879 | Bombay Dyeing & Mfg Company |
| 1897 | Aditya Birla Real Estate |
| 1902 | Indian Hotels Company |
| 1902 | Shalimar Paints |
This is the year the company was registered, read from its official company ID number. Some businesses are older than their company, and a new name never changes the year. Only India's biggest listed companies file the report this comes from. Age is a fact, not a view on any company.
How it is measured
Each company's registration year is read from its official company ID number (Corporate Identity Number, characters 9 to 12), taken from its latest yearly sustainability report (BRSR). Only the largest listed companies file one, so this covers India's biggest 1,244 listed companies, not every listed company. 10 companies are left out: 4 with a placeholder ID (a year that cannot be real), 3 with an ID in the wrong format and 3 no longer active. This is the year the company was registered, not the year the business began: a family trade registered later looks younger, and a rename never changes the year.
Age is a fact about a company, not a view on it.
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The finding in one sentence, on each day its numbers changed.
- Half of India's 1,244 biggest listed companies were set up before 1990: 634 of them. The typical one was registered in 1989.
- Half of India's 1,245 biggest listed companies were set up before 1990: 634 of them. The typical one was registered in 1989.
- Half of India's 1,244 biggest listed companies were set up before 1990: 634 of them. The typical one was registered in 1989.
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