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Company Man
September 2011Mehta is very proud of his shop on Conduit Street. It is called The East India Company. Yes, the same one. In one of history’s ironic twists, a Gujarati man born in Bombay now owns the company that was set up at Leadenhall Street at the end of the 16th century by British traders and merchants who went around the globe looking for a good cuppa and some spices and ended up colonising half the world—including India, the jewel in the crown—before collapsing in 1873.
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Coinage of the British East India Company
May 2011By 1672 the Company had established a mint in Bombay to produce copper and tin coins to serve its local needs and in 1717 they started minting silver rupees of Indian style in the name of the emperor.
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Mahindra buys minority stake in East India Company
January 2011Mahindra Group has acquired a minority stake in the East India Company, the global luxury brand owned by Indian origin entrepreneur Sanjiv Mehta who relaunched the company here in August 2010.
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The East India Company to enter bullion market by year end
January 2011‘It is branding, not trading, which stays in global luxury market’
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