Named Companies of Mumbai

The Reserve Bank of India is the country’s central bank, set up in 1935 under the Reserve Bank of India Act and nationalised in 1949.

State Bank of India is the largest bank in the country, descended from the Bank of Calcutta of 1806 through the Imperial Bank of India, and constituted in its present form in 1955.

HDFC Bank is India’s largest private sector bank, set up in 1994 among the first of the new private banks licensed after liberalisation.

ICICI Bank grew out of the Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India, the development finance institution set up in 1955, and became a commercial bank in 1994 before merging with its parent in 2002.

Axis Bank began in 1993 as UTI Bank, promoted by the Unit Trust of India and the public-sector insurers, and took its present name in 2007.

Kotak Mahindra Bank was the first non-banking finance company in India to become a bank, in 2003; the group had begun as Kotak Capital Management in 1985 under Uday Kotak.

IndusInd Bank was set up in 1994 by the Hinduja group, named for the Indus Valley civilisation, and is among the larger private banks of the country; its registered office is in Pune but its corporate office is in Mumbai

Yes Bank was licensed in 2004 and grew fast through the 2010s before a crisis of bad loans led the RBI to place it under a moratorium in March 2020 and reconstruct it with SBI and other banks as shareholders.

RBL Bank is the old Ratnakar Bank of Kolhapur, founded in 1943, which was taken over by a new management in 2010 and rebuilt into a national private bank with its corporate office at One World Centre in Lower Parel.

IDFC First Bank came from the merger in 2018 of IDFC Bank, the banking arm of the infrastructure lender IDFC, with Capital First, a retail finance company; its registered office is in Mumbai and its operations are run fr

IDBI Bank is the former Industrial Development Bank of India, the development finance institution set up in 1964 that became a commercial bank in 2004; it is now majority-owned by the Life Insurance Corporation and the G

Bank of Baroda was founded in 1908 by Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda and nationalised in 1969; it absorbed Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank in 2019 to become the second-largest public sector bank.

Bank of India was founded in Mumbai in 1906 by a group of the city’s merchants and nationalised in 1969; its head office is Star House in Bandra Kurla Complex, and its old Mumbai main branch is at Mahatma Gandhi Road in

Union Bank of India was registered in Mumbai in 1919, its head office inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi, and nationalised in 1969; in 2020 it absorbed Andhra Bank and Corporation Bank.

Central Bank of India was founded in Mumbai in 1911 by Sir Sorabji Pochkhanawala, the first commercial bank wholly owned and managed by Indians, and nationalised in 1969.

Punjab National Bank, founded in Lahore in 1894 and headquartered in Delhi, is one of the largest public sector banks after absorbing Oriental Bank of Commerce and United Bank of India in 2020.

UCO Bank, the United Commercial Bank founded in Kolkata in 1943 by G.

Canara Bank, founded in Mangalore in 1906 and headquartered in Bengaluru, absorbed Syndicate Bank in 2020 and is among the four largest public sector banks; its Mumbai circle office and corporate branches are at Nariman

Exim Bank is the Government’s export credit agency, set up by Act of Parliament in 1982 to finance, facilitate and promote India’s foreign trade.

NABARD is the apex development bank for agriculture and rural India, set up in 1982 by Act of Parliament to take over the agricultural credit functions of the RBI.

SIDBI is the apex financial institution for micro, small and medium enterprises, set up in 1990; its head office is in Lucknow and its Mumbai office is in Bandra Kurla Complex, from where much of its refinance and fund-o

NPCI is the not-for-profit umbrella organisation for retail payments in India, set up in 2008 by the RBI and the Indian Banks’ Association, with its head office in Bandra Kurla Complex.

Citi has been in India since 1902, when the International Banking Corporation opened in Kolkata, and Citibank India has long been headquartered in Mumbai, now at the First International Financial Centre in Bandra Kurla C

HSBC’s history in India goes back to the Mercantile Bank of India of 1853; its Indian head office is the old Mercantile Bank building at 52/60 Mahatma Gandhi Road in Fort, with large offices in Bandra Kurla Complex.

Standard Chartered has been in India since the Chartered Bank opened in Kolkata in 1858, and India is one of its largest markets; its Indian head office is Crescenzo in Bandra Kurla Complex, with historic branches at For

Deutsche Bank has been in India since 1980, with its Indian head office at The Capital in Bandra Kurla Complex and the old Deutsche Bank House at Hazarimal Somani Marg, Fort.

DBS, Singapore’s largest bank, converted its Indian branches into a wholly-owned subsidiary in 2019 and in 2020 absorbed the failed Lakshmi Vilas Bank, giving it a branch network across the south.

Bank of America has operated in India since 1964 and runs its Indian business from Express Towers at Nariman Point and offices in Bandra Kurla Complex.

Barclays has been in India since 1990 and runs corporate and investment banking from Ceejay House, Worli, and Bandra Kurla Complex, with its large Barclays Global Service Centre in Mumbai and Pune supporting the group wo

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Saraswat Bank, founded in 1918 by the Saraswat community of Mumbai, is the largest urban co-operative bank in India, with its head office at Ekanath Thakur Bhavan in Prabhadevi and branches across Maharashtra, Goa, Gujar

Bombay Mercantile Co-operative Bank was founded in 1939 and has its head office at Marine Lines; it is a multi-state urban co-operative bank with branches in Mumbai and other cities.

Cosmos Bank, founded in Pune in 1906, is the second-oldest and one of the largest urban co-operative banks in the country, with a large Mumbai network.

AU Small Finance Bank, headquartered in Jaipur, is the largest small finance bank in India, converted from the vehicle-finance company AU Financiers in 2017; it has a large Mumbai presence with corporate offices in Bandr

Paytm Payments Bank, licensed in 2017 and based in Noida, was the largest of the payments banks until the RBI barred it from taking new deposits in 2024; it is listed here as a payments bank of record with operations in

Airtel Payments Bank, promoted by Bharti Airtel, was the first payments bank to open in 2017 and is the largest operating one, with its registered office in Delhi and operations across Mumbai.

Fino Payments Bank, headquartered in Navi Mumbai, grew out of the Fino Paytech business-correspondent network and opened as a payments bank in 2017; it is listed on the stock exchanges.

Bajaj Finance, headquartered in Pune, is India’s largest non-banking finance company by market value, lending for consumer durables, two-wheelers, personal loans, SMEs and mortgages through Bajaj Housing Finance; its Mum

Piramal Enterprises is the financial-services company of the Piramal group, with its head office at Piramal Ananta in Kurla and earlier at Peninsula Corporate Park, Lower Parel; it absorbed Dewan Housing Finance in 2021

Aditya Birla Finance is the lending arm of Aditya Birla Capital, with its head office at One World Centre in Lower Parel; it lends to SMEs, corporates and retail borrowers.

Tata Capital is the financial-services company of the Tata group, with its head office at Peninsula Business Park in Lower Parel; it lends to retail, SME and corporate borrowers, finances housing and runs private equity

Mahindra Finance is the rural lending company of the Mahindra group, headquartered at Mahindra Towers in Worli; it finances tractors, utility vehicles and cars in rural and semi-urban India through more than a thousand b

Shriram Finance, the merged Shriram Transport Finance and Shriram City Union Finance, is one of the largest NBFCs in India, lending for commercial vehicles, two-wheelers and small businesses; its registered office is at

HDB Financial Services is the NBFC subsidiary of HDFC Bank, with its registered office in Ahmedabad and corporate operations in Mumbai; it lends to consumers and small businesses and listed on the exchanges in 2025.

SVC Bank, the Shamrao Vithal Co-operative Bank founded in 1906, is one of the oldest and largest multi-state scheduled co-operative banks in India, headquartered at SVC Tower, Nehru Road, Santacruz East, with branches in

NKGSB Bank, the North Kanara Gaud Saraswat Brahmin Co-operative Bank founded in 1917, is a scheduled multi-state co-operative bank headquartered at Laxmi Sadan, Girgaon.

Abhyudaya Co-operative Bank, founded in 1964 in the mill district of Parel, is a scheduled multi-state co-operative bank serving the working families of central Mumbai and Navi Mumbai; the RBI superseded its board in 202

Bharat Co-operative Bank, founded in 1978 by the Bunt community of Mumbai, is a scheduled multi-state co-operative bank headquartered at Marutagiri, Goregaon East.

Apna Sahakari Bank, founded in 1968 at Parel, is a scheduled co-operative bank of central Mumbai.

Janakalyan Sahakari Bank, founded in 1974, is a Mumbai co-operative bank headquartered at Chembur with branches across the eastern suburbs.

The Zoroastrian Co-operative Bank, founded in 1927 by the Parsi community, is a scheduled co-operative bank headquartered at Fort.

New India Co-operative Bank, founded in 1968 and headquartered at Santacruz West, is a Mumbai co-operative bank; the RBI placed it under restrictions and an administrator in 2025.

Citizencredit Co-operative Bank, founded in 1920 by the Catholic community of Bandra, is a scheduled co-operative bank headquartered at Bandra West.

The Mumbai District Central Co-operative Bank, the Mumbai Bank, founded in 1974, is the district central co-operative bank of the city, headquartered at Fort and serving housing societies and co-operatives.

Suryoday Small Finance Bank, headquartered at CBD Belapur in Navi Mumbai, began as a microfinance company in 2008 and became a small finance bank in 2017; it is listed on the exchanges and lends to small borrowers across

Unity Small Finance Bank, promoted by Centrum and BharatPe, was licensed in 2021 to take over the failed PMC Bank and runs from Kalina, Santacruz East, with PMC’s old branches across Mumbai.

Jio Payments Bank, promoted by Reliance Industries and now owned wholly by Jio Financial Services, is headquartered in Navi Mumbai and offers savings accounts and payments through the Jio network.

NSDL Payments Bank, promoted by the depository NSDL, is headquartered at Kamala Mills, Lower Parel, and offers accounts and payments through digital channels.

BSE is Asia’s oldest stock exchange, begun in 1875 as the Native Share and Stock Brokers’ Association under a banyan tree near Horniman Circle, and housed since 1980 in the 29-storey Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers on Dalal St

NSE was set up in 1992 at the Government’s instance to bring screen-based trading to India and began operations in 1994 from Exchange Plaza in Bandra Kurla Complex.

MCX, set up in 2003 and run from Exchange Square in Andheri East, is India’s largest commodity derivatives exchange, trading gold, silver, crude oil, natural gas, copper and other metals.

NCDEX, set up in 2003 with its office in Bandra Kurla Complex, is the exchange for agricultural commodities — guar, chana, jeera, castor seed, cotton and the like — and the price reference for India’s farm markets.

SEBI is the regulator of the securities market, set up in 1988 and given statutory powers in 1992; its head office is SEBI Bhavan in Bandra Kurla Complex.

IRDAI, set up in 1999 and headquartered in Hyderabad, regulates the insurance companies; its Mumbai office in Bandra Kurla Complex sits among the insurers it supervises, most of which are headquartered in the city.

PFRDA regulates the National Pension System and the pension fund managers; it is headquartered in Delhi, and the pension fund managers it licenses — SBI, LIC, UTI, HDFC, ICICI, Kotak and others — are Mumbai companies.

LIC was formed in 1956 when the Government nationalised 245 private life insurers, and its central office is Yogakshema on Jeevan Bima Marg at Nariman Point.

HDFC Life, set up in 2000 as the joint venture of HDFC and Standard Life, is one of the three largest private life insurers in India; its head office is Lodha Excelus at Apollo Mills Compound, Mahalaxmi, close to Worli.

ICICI Prudential Life, the 2000 joint venture of ICICI Bank and Prudential plc, was the first private life insurer to list in India, in 2016; its registered office is ICICI PruLife Towers at Prabhadevi, with offices in B

SBI Life, set up in 2001 by State Bank of India and BNP Paribas Cardif, is the largest private life insurer by new business premium; its corporate office is Natraj at Western Express Highway, Andheri East, with earlier o

Tata AIA Life is the joint venture of Tata Sons and AIA Group of Hong Kong, set up in 2001, with its head office at Peninsula Business Park in Lower Parel.

Bajaj Allianz Life, the joint venture of Bajaj Finserv and Allianz SE, is headquartered in Pune and runs a large Mumbai operation; in 2025 Bajaj bought out Allianz’s stake.

Max Life, now Axis Max Life after Axis Bank became its largest shareholder, is headquartered in Delhi with large Mumbai operations; it is among the top private life insurers by premium.

GIC Re, formed in 1972 when general insurance was nationalised, is India’s national reinsurer and one of the largest reinsurers in the world by premium; its head office is Suraksha on Veer Nariman Road at Churchgate.

New India Assurance was founded in 1919 by Sir Dorabji Tata and is the largest general insurer in India, Government-owned since 1973 and listed since 2017; its head office is New India Assurance Building at 87 Mahatma Ga

ICICI Lombard, set up in 2001, is the largest private general insurer in India, listed on the exchanges with its registered office at ICICI Lombard House, Prabhadevi.

HDFC ERGO, the general insurer of the HDFC group with Germany’s ERGO, has its registered office at HDFC House on H.

Bajaj Allianz General, headquartered in Pune, is one of the largest private general insurers in India, with major Mumbai operations.

Tata AIG General, the joint venture of Tata Sons and American International Group, has its head office at Peninsula Business Park in Lower Parel.

Star Health, headquartered in Chennai and listed on the exchanges, is the largest standalone health insurer in India, with a large Mumbai regional operation.

Niva Bupa, formerly Max Bupa, is a standalone health insurer headquartered in Delhi and listed on the Mumbai exchanges since 2024.

SBI Mutual Fund, managed by SBI Funds Management, a joint venture of State Bank of India and Amundi of France, is the largest fund house in India by assets; its head office is at 9th floor, Crescenzo, Bandra Kurla Comple

ICICI Prudential AMC, the joint venture of ICICI Bank and Prudential plc, is the second-largest fund house in India, with its head office at One BKC in Bandra Kurla Complex.

HDFC AMC, listed on the exchanges since 2018, is one of the three largest fund houses in India; its head office is HDFC House on H.

Nippon India Mutual Fund, the former Reliance Mutual Fund bought by Nippon Life of Japan in 2019, is among the five largest fund houses in India and is listed on the exchanges; its head office is Nesco IT Park in Goregao

Kotak Mahindra AMC, the fund house of the Kotak group, is among the largest in India, run from 27BKC in Bandra Kurla Complex.

Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC, the joint venture of Aditya Birla Capital and Sun Life of Canada, is listed on the exchanges and run from One World Centre in Lower Parel.

UTI AMC is the successor of the Unit Trust of India of 1964, the first mutual fund in the country, and is listed on the exchanges; its head office is UTI Tower, Gn Block, Bandra Kurla Complex.

Axis AMC, the fund house of Axis Bank with Schroders of the UK as partner, is run from Axis House in Worli and is among the ten largest fund houses.

DSP Mutual Fund is the fund house of the DSP group, the Kothari family’s broking house that goes back to the 1860s on Dalal Street; after its partnerships with Merrill Lynch and BlackRock ended it is wholly Indian-owned,

Mirae Asset, the Korean fund house, runs its Indian mutual fund from Unit 606, Windsor Building, Kalina, near Bandra Kurla Complex; its equity schemes made it one of the fastest-growing fund houses in India.

Tata Asset Management, the fund house of the Tata group, is run from Mulla House, Fort, and manages Tata Mutual Fund.

Motilal Oswal AMC, the fund house of the Motilal Oswal group, runs from Motilal Oswal Tower at Prabhadevi and is known for its index funds and focused equity schemes.

Edelweiss AMC, the fund house of the Edelweiss group, runs from Edelweiss House at Kalina and manages the Bharat Bond ETFs for the Government alongside its own schemes.

quant Mutual Fund, managed by quant Money Managers from Sabnis House in Dadar West, grew from a small fund house to one of the most followed in the country in the early 2020s on the strength of its equity schemes.

PPFAS Mutual Fund, run by Parag Parikh Financial Advisory Services from Great Western Building at Fort, manages the Parag Parikh Flexi Cap Fund, one of the largest equity schemes in India, from a single-fund beginning in

Motilal Oswal Financial Services, founded in 1987 by Motilal Oswal and Raamdeo Agrawal as a sub-broking firm on Dalal Street, is a listed financial group run from Motilal Oswal Tower at Prabhadevi: broking, wealth, inves

ICICI Securities, the broking and investment-banking arm of ICICI Bank, runs ICICIdirect, one of the largest retail broking platforms in India, from ICICI Venture House at Prabhadevi; it was delisted and folded into ICIC

Kotak Securities, the broking arm of the Kotak group, is one of the largest full-service brokers in India, run from 27BKC with research and institutional desks.

HDFC Securities, the broking subsidiary of HDFC Bank, runs from I Think Techno Campus in Kanjurmarg and is among the largest bank-owned brokers in India.

Zerodha, founded in Bengaluru in 2010 by Nithin and Nikhil Kamath, is the largest retail broker in India by active clients and changed the business with flat-fee trading; it is listed here because the Mumbai exchanges an

Angel One, the former Angel Broking founded in 1996 by Dinesh Thakkar, is a listed Mumbai broker that moved to a flat-fee digital model and became one of the three largest brokers by active clients; its head office is in

Sharekhan, begun in 2000 by the SSKI group, was among the first online brokers in India; it was owned by BNP Paribas from 2016 and bought by Mirae Asset in 2024.

Prabhudas Lilladher, founded in 1944, is one of the old Dalal Street broking houses, still family-run from Sadhana House at Worli with institutional research, retail broking and wealth management.

JM Financial, founded in 1973 by Nimesh Kampani, is one of the oldest Indian investment banks, run from 7th floor, Cnergy, Prabhadevi, with its historic address at Nariman Point.

Axis Capital, the investment bank of Axis Bank (the former Enam Securities, bought in 2012), is run from Axis House at Worli and is among the leaders in Indian equity capital markets.

Avendus, founded in 1999 and run from The IL&FS Financial Centre in Bandra Kurla Complex, is the leading Indian investment bank for technology and consumer companies, and also runs wealth and alternative asset businesses

Ambit, founded in 1997 and run from Ambit House in Lower Parel, is an Indian investment bank with institutional equities, wealth management and private equity arms.

Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager, runs its Indian private equity and real estate business from Express Towers at Nariman Point and offices in Bandra Kurla Complex; it is the largest foreign inves

KKR runs its Indian private equity, credit and infrastructure investing from Bandra Kurla Complex; its investments include Reliance Jio and Reliance Retail stakes, Avendus and several hospital and consumer companies.

Warburg Pincus was among the first global private equity firms in India, famous for its Bharti Airtel investment of 1999, and runs from Express Towers at Nariman Point and BKC.

ChrysCapital, founded in 1999 by Ashish Dhawan, is the largest home-grown private equity firm in India, run from Express Towers at Nariman Point.

CRISIL, set up in 1987 as India’s first credit rating agency, is majority-owned by S&P Global and run from CRISIL House in Hiranandani Business Park, Powai; it is listed on the exchanges.

ICRA, set up in 1991 and majority-owned by Moody’s, is the second of the big Indian rating agencies, headquartered in Gurugram with its large Mumbai office at Electric Mansion, Prabhadevi.

CARE Ratings, now CareEdge, was set up in 1993 and is the only large Indian rating agency not controlled by a foreign parent; its head office is Godrej Coliseum at Sion, and it is listed on the exchanges.

India Ratings, the Indian arm of Fitch Ratings, runs from Wockhardt Towers in Bandra Kurla Complex and rates banks, companies and structured finance.

CDSL, promoted by BSE in 1999 and listed since 2017, is the larger of India’s two securities depositories by number of accounts, holding investors’ shares in electronic form; its head office is Marathon Futurex in Lower

NSDL, set up in 1996 as the first depository in India, holds the larger share of securities by value and is run from Trade World in Kamala Mills, Lower Parel; it listed on the exchanges in 2025.

Paytm, run by One97 Communications from Noida, is the Indian payments and financial-services app that listed on the Mumbai exchanges in 2021 in the largest IPO of its time; it has a large Mumbai office.

PhonePe, headquartered in Bengaluru and owned by Walmart, is the largest UPI app in India by transactions and runs a large Mumbai operation; it is preparing a listing on the Mumbai exchanges.

Pine Labs, headquartered in Noida with a large Mumbai presence, provides point-of-sale terminals and merchant payments to retailers across India and Southeast Asia, and listed on the Mumbai exchanges in 2025.

Bajaj Finserv is the holding company of the Bajaj group’s financial businesses — Bajaj Finance, Bajaj Allianz Life and General, Bajaj Housing Finance and Bajaj Finserv AMC — headquartered in Pune and listed in Mumbai, wh

Aditya Birla Capital is the listed holding company of the Aditya Birla group’s financial businesses — Aditya Birla Finance, Aditya Birla Sun Life Insurance and AMC, housing finance and health insurance — run from One Wor

Edelweiss, founded in 1995 by Rashesh Shah and Venkat Ramaswamy as an investment bank, is a listed diversified financial group run from Edelweiss House at Kalina: asset management, alternative funds, asset reconstruction

Nuvama, the former Edelweiss Wealth bought by PAG and listed in 2023, is one of the largest wealth managers in India, run from 801 Plaza Tower at Nariman Point and Lower Parel, with institutional equities and asset servi

360 ONE, the former IIFL Wealth, is the largest independent wealth manager in India, listed on the exchanges and run from 360 ONE Centre, Kamala City, Lower Parel.

Tata Sons is the holding company of the Tata group, founded by Jamsetji Tata in 1868 and headquartered at Bombay House on Homi Mody Street, Fort, since 1924.

Reliance Industries, founded by Dhirubhai Ambani and led by Mukesh Ambani, is India’s largest company by revenue and market value; its registered office is Maker Chambers IV at Nariman Point and its corporate headquarter

The Aditya Birla group, led by Kumar Mangalam Birla, is headquartered at Aditya Birla Centre in Worli and spans Grasim, UltraTech Cement, Hindalco, Aditya Birla Capital and Aditya Birla Fashion, with a presence in some f

The Mahindra group, headquartered at Mahindra Towers in Worli and at Gateway Building, Apollo Bunder, is led by Anand Mahindra and spans Mahindra & Mahindra (vehicles and tractors), Tech Mahindra, Mahindra Finance and Ma

The Godrej group, founded in 1897 by Ardeshir Godrej, is headquartered at Godrej One in Vikhroli, where its 3,000-acre estate holds factories, offices and a mangrove forest; its companies include Godrej Consumer Products

Larsen & Toubro, founded in Mumbai in 1938 by two Danish engineers, is India’s largest engineering and construction company, headquartered at L&T House on Narottam Morarjee Marg in Ballard Estate, with its campus at Powa

Hindustan Unilever, India’s largest consumer goods company and the Indian arm of Unilever, is headquartered at Unilever House in Andheri East since 2010, having moved from Backbay Reclamation; its brands — Lifebuoy, Surf

TCS, the largest IT services company in India and the most valuable Tata company, is headquartered at TCS House on Raveline Street, Fort, with Nirmal Building at Nariman Point and large campuses at Yantra Park, Thane and

Acuité Ratings & Research, the former SMERA set up in 2005 by SIDBI and the banks to rate small enterprises, is a SEBI-registered rating agency headquartered at Lodha Supremus, Kanjurmarg East.

Morningstar India, the Indian arm of the Chicago fund-research company, is headquartered in Navi Mumbai and rates and researches mutual funds and equities for Indian investors and advisers.

Emkay Global, founded in 1995 and listed on the exchanges, is a Mumbai broking and research house headquartered at The Ruby, Dadar West, with institutional equities, wealth and investment banking arms.

Kotak Institutional Equities, the institutional broking and research arm of Kotak Securities at 27BKC, is among the most followed equity research desks in India.

Anand Rathi, founded in 1994 by Anand Rathi, is a Mumbai financial group with broking, commodity and currency broking, wealth management (listed as Anand Rathi Wealth) and investment banking, headquartered at Express Zon

Nirmal Bang, founded in 1986, is a Mumbai broking house at Marathon Futurex, Lower Parel, in equity, commodity and currency broking with a large franchisee network.

Choice International, founded in 1993 and listed on the exchanges, is a Mumbai financial group headquartered at Sunil Patodia Tower, Andheri East, with broking, commodity and currency broking, wealth and advisory arms.

Yash Raj Films, founded in 1970 by Yash Chopra and run by Aditya Chopra, is the largest film studio in India, with YRF Studios at Veera Desai Road, Andheri West — the only studio in Mumbai with its own shooting floors, s

Dharma Productions, founded in 1976 by Yash Johar and led by Karan Johar since 2000, is one of the three or four largest production houses in Hindi cinema, with its office at Supreme Chambers, Andheri West, and the famil

Red Chillies, founded in 2002 by Shah Rukh Khan and Gauri Khan, is a production house with its own visual-effects studio, Red Chillies VFX, run from Red Chillies House at Khar West; Chennai Express, Raees, Jawan and Dunk

Excel Entertainment, founded in 1999 by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani, is based in Bandra West and made Dil Chahta Hai, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, Gully Boy and the Mirzapur series through its streaming arm Excel Medi

Salman Khan Films, founded in 2011, is the actor’s production company, based at Galaxy Apartments, Bandra West, where his family has lived for decades; Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Tiger Zinda Hai and Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan car

Aamir Khan Productions, founded in 1999, is the actor’s company based in Bandra West; Lagaan, Taare Zameen Par, Dangal and Laal Singh Chaddha are its films, and Lagaan was nominated for the Academy Award.

Vinod Chopra Films, founded in 1985 by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, is based at Khar West and made Parinda, 1942: A Love Story, Munna Bhai M.B.B.S., 3 Idiots, PK and 12th Fail.

Nadiadwala Grandson, founded in 1955 as A.

Balaji Telefilms, founded in 1994 by Ekta Kapoor with her parents Jeetendra and Shobha Kapoor, is the largest television content producer in India, listed on the exchanges and based at C-13 Balaji House, Andheri West; it

Balaji Motion Pictures, the film arm of Balaji Telefilms, made The Dirty Picture, Lootera, Udta Punjab, Veere Di Wedding and Dream Girl from its Andheri West base.

Anurag Kashyap Films, founded in 2009 by the director of Gangs of Wasseypur, Dev.D and Black Friday, is based at Andheri West and backs independent Hindi cinema.

Maddock Films, founded in 2005 by Dinesh Vijan, is based at Andheri West and made Stree, Bala, Munjya and the Stree 2 that became one of the biggest Hindi hits of 2024; its horror-comedy universe is the most successful f

Clean Slate Filmz, founded in 2014 by Anushka Sharma and her brother Karnesh Ssharma, is based at Andheri West and made NH10, Phillauri, Pari and the series Paatal Lok.

Phantom Studios, the production company of Madhu Mantena and partners that grew from Phantom Films, is based at Andheri West; Queen, Lootera and Udta Punjab were Phantom films.

T-Series, founded in 1983 by Gulshan Kumar and run by Bhushan Kumar, is the largest music label in India and one of the largest film producers, headquartered in Noida with its film office at Andheri West; its YouTube cha

Zee Studios, the film arm of Zee Entertainment, produces and distributes Hindi, Marathi and Punjabi films from Zee’s offices at Marathon Futurex, Lower Parel, and Andheri; The Kashmir Files, Sairat and Uri were its films

Viacom18 Studios, now part of JioStar after the Reliance–Disney merger of 2024, produced and distributed Queen, Padmaavat, Andhadhun and the Tiger films’ co-productions from its offices at Andheri and BKC.

Junglee Pictures, the film arm of the Times group founded in 2014, is based at Andheri West and made Talvar, Bareilly Ki Barfi, Raazi and Badhaai Ho.

Mukta Arts, founded in 1978 by Subhash Ghai and listed on the exchanges, is based at Audeus, Andheri West; Karz, Hero, Ram Lakhan, Khalnayak and Taal are its films, and it runs the Mukta A2 cinema chain and the Whistling

Bhansali Productions, founded in 2000 by the director of Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, Devdas, Padmaavat and Gangubai Kathiawadi, is based at Juhu; its films are known for their sets, built on the Film City floors.

Vishesh Films, founded in 1986 by Mukesh and Mahesh Bhatt, is based at Juhu and made the Raaz, Murder, Jannat and Aashiqui series — low-budget films with big music.

Anil Kapoor’s company, based at Juhu, made Gandhi, My Father and the Indian version of 24, and co-produces films with his daughters Sonam and Rhea Kapoor.

Ajay Devgn FFilms, founded in 2000, is the actor’s production company at Juhu; Shivaay, Tanhaji and Drishyam 2 were its films, and NY VFXWAALA its effects studio.

Filmkraft, founded in 1987 by Rakesh Roshan, is the Roshan family’s company at Juhu; Karan Arjun, Kaho Naa...

Ashutosh Gowariker Productions, founded in 2004 by the director of Lagaan and Jodhaa Akbar, is based at Juhu and made Swades, What’s Your Raashee?

Roy Kapur Films, founded in 2017 by Siddharth Roy Kapur, formerly head of UTV and Disney India, is based at Juhu and made The Sky Is Pink, Rocket Boys and Pippa.

Film City, named for Dadasaheb Phalke and run by the Maharashtra Film, Stage and Cultural Development Corporation, is the 520-acre studio complex at Goregaon East beside the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, opened in 1977.

Reliance MediaWorks runs studio floors and post-production facilities inside Film City at Goregaon, the former Adlabs built up by Manmohan Shetty and bought by the Reliance ADA group in 2005.

Mehboob Studios at Hill Road, Bandra West, was built in 1954 by Mehboob Khan, the director of Mother India, and remains one of the city’s working studios with four shooting stages, used for films, advertising and events.

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Famous Studios at Mahalaxmi, founded in 1946, is a working studio in the old mill district used for film, advertising and television shoots, with post-production facilities; it has been part of the industry’s history sin

Big Synergy, founded by Siddhartha Basu, is the television production company behind Kaun Banega Crorepati and other game and quiz shows, with its floors inside Film City.

Prime Focus, founded in 1997 by Namit Malhotra and listed on the exchanges, is headquartered at Prime Focus House, Linking Road, Khar West, and owns DNEG, the London visual-effects company behind Interstellar, Dune and O

Futureworks, at Andheri West, is one of the leading post-production houses of Mumbai, with colour grading, sound mixing and visual-effects facilities used by the major studios.

Sound & Vision India, founded by Leela Ghosh in 1990 at Andheri West, is the largest dubbing studio in the country, dubbing Hollywood films and series into Hindi and other Indian languages.

Sunny Super Sound at Juhu, owned by Sunny Deol’s family, is a sound-recording, dubbing and mixing studio with a preview theatre used across the industry.

Crest Animation, founded in 1990 as Crest Communications at Andheri West, was the animation studio that co-produced Alpha and Omega with Lionsgate and worked on Hollywood animated films.

Light N Light, at Andheri West, is one of the largest lighting and grip rental companies of the industry, supplying lights, generators and cranes to film and advertising shoots.

Accord Equips, at Andheri West, rents cameras, lenses and grip equipment to film and television productions and is one of the established equipment houses of the industry.

Mukesh Chhabra Casting Company, at Versova, is the best-known casting house in Hindi cinema, having cast Gangs of Wasseypur, Chhichhore, Kai Po Che, Dangal and dozens of streaming series; Chhabra directed Dil Bechara in

Casting Bay, at Versova, is one of the leading casting companies of Mumbai, casting for films, series and advertising.

The Casting Station, at Versova, casts for films, web series and advertising and is one of the established casting companies of the suburb.

Pen India, founded in 1981 by Jayantilal Gada, is one of the largest film distributors and satellite-rights buyers in the Hindi industry, based at Andheri West; it distributed Dangal and RRR’s Hindi version and produced

Venus, founded in 1986 by Ratan and Champak Jain, is a music label and film distributor at Andheri West, with the music of Ghulam, Baazigar and the Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam era in its catalogue.

Zee Music Company, launched in 2014 as the music label of Zee Entertainment, is one of the two largest film-music labels in India with T-Series, based at Zee’s offices at Lower Parel and Andheri.

PVR INOX, the merged PVR and INOX Leisure of 2023, is the largest cinema chain in India, headquartered in Gurugram and listed on the Mumbai exchanges, with multiplexes across the city from Lower Parel to Malad; INOX bega

Whistling Woods, founded in 2006 by Subhash Ghai inside Film City, is the best-known film school in India, teaching direction, acting, cinematography, animation and media.

Eros International, founded in 1977 by Arjan Lulla, was for decades one of the largest Hindi film distributors and producers, with its office at Andheri West and the Eros Now streaming service; it is listed in New York a

Netflix India runs from Bandra Kurla Complex and commissions Hindi films and series — Sacred Games, Delhi Crime, Heeramandi — from the city’s production houses.

Amazon Prime Video India, run from Mumbai, commissions Mirzapur, Panchayat, The Family Man and Made in Heaven, and buys the streaming rights of most big Hindi films.

JioStar, the 2024 merger of Reliance’s Viacom18 and Disney’s Star India, is the largest media company in India, running the Star and Colors channels and the JioHotstar streaming service from Bandra Kurla Complex and Lowe

Acropolis DMG is a Mumbai art direction and set production company building sets for advertising films, feature films and events.

Hhorizon Arts at Goregaon East designs and builds film and television sets, working on the Film City floors nearby.

Maganlal Dresswala, founded in 1926 in Kalbadevi and now at Juhu, is the oldest costume house of Hindi cinema, having dressed Mughal-e-Azam, Jodhaa Akbar and generations of period films, television and theatre from its s

Gem Dresswalla on Andheri Kurla Road is a costume rental and manufacturing house for films, television and advertising.

Jhalak Dresswala on New Link Road, Andheri West, rents costumes to film, television and advertising productions.

Did Dresswala at Goregaon West is a costume rental house serving the Film City productions.

Vault.Rent at Royal Palms, Aarey, rents designer and film costumes to productions and stylists.

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Anand Cine Service at Lokhandwala, Andheri West, is one of the established equipment houses of the industry, renting cameras, lenses, lights and generators.

Ravish A Equipments in Motilal Nagar, Goregaon West, rents lighting and camera gear to the Film City productions.

Paxton Equipments in Motilal Nagar, Goregaon West, rents cameras and film equipment.

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Bless Films at Motilal Nagar, Goregaon West, rents cameras and a studio floor.

NY VFXWAALA, founded in 2015 by Ajay Devgn and Naveen Paul at Andheri West, is a visual-effects studio that worked on Shivaay, Tanhaji and many Hindi films.

Red Chillies VFX, the effects arm of Red Chillies Entertainment at DLH Park, Goregaon West, is among the largest VFX studios in India, with Ra.One, Zero, Brahmastra and Jawan among its work.

Graphiti Multimedia, founded in 1993, is one of the oldest animation studios of Mumbai, making animated and live-action advertising films and television content.

Image Devices is a Mumbai post-production house doing colour grading on Baselight and Resolve, VFX and finishing for films and advertising.

Trivikram Filmms at Motilal Nagar, Goregaon West, is an editing and post-production studio.

Adapt Studios on Juhu Tara Road line-produces international films, series and commercials shooting in India.

Celluloid Pact at Aram Nagar, Versova, is a line production and fixer company for foreign productions in India.

Line Producers Global, the Golden Tulip Films company founded in 1986, provides line production, permits and crews for foreign productions shooting across India.

Mumbai Dreams is a casting company for films, television and advertising.

Shemaroo, founded in 1962 as a book library and listed on the exchanges, is headquartered at Marol, Andheri East, and owns one of the largest Hindi film libraries in the country, distributing to television, streaming and

D’fine Art at Goregaon East designs and builds sets for film and television, working on the Film City floors.

Set Craft at Goregaon West does production design and set construction for advertising films and commercials.

Om Art Prop Shop at Andheri West fabricates sets and supplies props to film and advertising units.

The Production Terminus at Andheri West builds feature-film sets and runs art-department services.

Benchmark Set Design at Goregaon East designs and builds studio sets for television and film.

Vertex Sets at Kama Industrial Estate, Goregaon East, designs and builds sets for films and television reality shows.

Powar Dresswale at Dadar West is one of the old costume houses of the city, renting film, theatrical and period wardrobe to productions and Marathi theatre.

Costume Company at Oshiwara designs and rents costumes for films, commercials and stage.

Vinayak Dresses at Goregaon East supplies shooting costumes, character attire and accessories to the Film City productions.

Saathiya Ethnics at Santacruz West rents ethnic and bridal costumes to films and events.

Ruby Costumes and Ethnix at Goregaon East rents film shoot wardrobe and stage attire.

Smart N Snappy at Goregaon East rents film and theatrical fancy-dress wardrobe.

Gayatri Cine Equipments at Goregaon West rents film cameras, sound and lighting equipment.

Primexa Equipment at Goregaon West rents cinema camera packages and lighting.

Pro Video Equipment Rental at Andheri West rents broadcast cameras, monitors and lighting.

Media City Equipment Rentals at Andheri West rents cinema cameras, anamorphic lenses and lighting.

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Anti-Casting Agency at Bandra West casts for commercials, films and digital content.

Tulip Casting Agency at Andheri West casts for films, television serials and commercials.

Bombay Casting at Andheri West manages actor casting and auditions.

Casting Tree at Andheri West casts for advertising campaigns across India.

SS Entertainment at Malad West is a casting service for films, streaming series and advertising.

Matrix India Entertainment Consultants, founded by Reshma Shetty, is one of the leading celebrity management companies of the industry, representing actors and sportspeople.

DNEG India, the Indian studios of the Prime Focus-owned DNEG, at Goregaon East and Prime Focus House, works on Hollywood and Indian features — DNEG’s Oscar-winning effects for Dune, Tenet and Blade Runner 2049 were made

YFX is the visual-effects studio of Yash Raj Films at Andheri West, doing the effects for the studio’s own films.

Maya Digital Studios at Malad West, founded by Ketan Mehta, makes animated series and films and visual effects; Motu Patlu is its best-known series.

MPC, the Technicolor visual-effects company, runs a large Mumbai studio working on Hollywood features and advertising.

Assemblage Entertainment at Lower Parel produces 3D animated features and series for international studios and streaming services.

Tau Films at Goregaon East does photoreal visual effects, animation and creature work for films and commercials.

Pixion Studios at Bandra West is a post-production house for colour grading, digital intermediate, dubbing and finishing.

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Empire Studio at Andheri West is a sound studio for theatrical dubbing, mixing and Dolby Atmos mastering.

Prime Focus Technologies, the media-services arm of Prime Focus at Goregaon East, handles dubbing, localisation, digital distribution and its CLEAR media platform for broadcasters and studios.

India Take One Productions at Andheri West line-produces Indian and foreign feature films shooting in India.

Line Productions India at Bandra West handles budgeting, location scouting, crew hire and filming permits.

Shooting in India at Versova provides line production support for features and commercials.

Locations Mumbai at Goregaon West scouts shooting locations and obtains permissions.

The Line Production Company at Andheri West runs full-scale line production and shoot coordination.

Filming Indo at Andheri East is a fixer and location service for documentary and feature productions.

YRF Music is the music label of Yash Raj Films at Andheri West, releasing the soundtracks of the studio’s films.

Nirvana Films at Bandra West, founded by Prakash Varma, is one of the leading advertising film production houses of the city, behind the Vodafone ZooZoos and many national campaigns.

Early Man Film on Pali Mala Road, Bandra West, founded by Abhinay Deo, produces narrative advertising films.

Bennett, Coleman & Co., the Times Group, publishes The Times of India — the largest-selling English newspaper in the world — The Economic Times, Maharashtra Times, Navbharat Times and Mumbai Mirror, from The Times of Ind

The Indian Express, founded in Madras in 1932 and built by Ramnath Goenka, publishes The Indian Express, the Financial Express and Loksatta from Express Towers at Nariman Point, the building Goenka put up in 1972; the Mu

HT Media, the Delhi company of the Birla family that publishes Hindustan Times, Hindustan and Mint, is listed on the exchanges and prints its Mumbai editions from its Mahim and Lower Parel offices; Mint, its business pap

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Lokmat, the Darda family’s Nagpur paper founded in 1971, is the largest-circulated Marathi daily and prints its Mumbai edition from Lokmat Bhavan at Parel; Lokmat Times and Lokmat Samachar are its English and Hindi paper

Sakal, the Pune paper founded in 1932 and owned by the Pawar family, is among the largest Marathi dailies with a Mumbai edition and the Sakal Times; Saam TV is its channel.

Mid-Day, the Mumbai afternoon tabloid founded in 1979 by Khalid Ansari, is owned by the Jagran group and published from Parel; it is the city paper of the commuting public, with its Gujarati and Urdu editions (Inquilab).

Star India, Rupert Murdoch’s Indian broadcaster from 1992 and Disney’s from 2019, became part of JioStar in the 2024 merger with Viacom18; its headquarters was Star House at Urmi Estate, Lower Parel, with the studios at

Viacom18, the joint venture of the Reliance group and Paramount from 2007, ran Colors, MTV India, Nickelodeon and JioCinema from Zion Bizworld at Andheri East and merged with Star India into JioStar in 2024.

Zee Entertainment, the first private Hindi satellite channel in 1992, founded by Subhash Chandra, is a listed broadcaster headquartered at Marathon Futurex in Lower Parel, running Zee TV, Zee Marathi, Zee Cinema, &TV and

Sony Pictures Networks India, now Culver Max Entertainment, runs Sony Entertainment Television, SAB, Sony Sports and the SonyLIV streaming service from Interface Building at Malad West, with earlier offices at Lower Pare

Network18, controlled by Reliance Industries since 2014, is listed on the exchanges and runs CNBC-TV18, CNN-News18, News18 in a dozen languages, Moneycontrol and Firstpost from Empire Complex at Lower Parel; it held Viac

Times Network, the broadcasting arm of the Times Group, runs Times Now, ET Now, Mirror Now and Zoom from Trade House, Kamala Mills, Lower Parel.

Republic Media Network, founded in 2017 by Arnab Goswami, runs Republic TV, Republic Bharat and regional channels from its Worli studios, and became the most watched English news channel within a year of launch.

ABP Network, the Kolkata group that publishes Anandabazar Patrika and The Telegraph, runs ABP News, ABP Majha (Marathi) and other channels, with ABP Majha produced from Mumbai.

TV9, the Hyderabad network, runs TV9 Marathi and TV9 Bharatvarsh with its Marathi channel produced from Mumbai; it is among the largest regional news networks.

Entertainment Network India, the listed radio company of the Times Group, runs Radio Mirchi, the largest private FM network in India, from Trade Gardens at Kalina and studios at Andheri; Mirchi 98.3 is the city’s most li

Red FM 93.5, owned by the Sun group, is one of the largest private FM networks in the country, with its Mumbai station and western region office at Andheri East.

Big FM 92.7, launched in 2006 by the Reliance ADA group and now owned by Sapphire Media, runs one of the largest FM networks in India from its Andheri East studios.

Radio City 91.1, the first private FM station in India in 2001 at Bengaluru, is run by Music Broadcast Limited, a listed company of the Jagran group, with its Mumbai station and head office at Lower Parel.

Fever 104 FM, the radio network of HT Media, runs its Mumbai station from the group’s Lower Parel and Mahim offices; Radio Nasha is its retro sister station.

Ogilvy India, the WPP agency that was Ogilvy & Mather, is the largest and most awarded advertising agency in the country, run from Commerz at Goregaon with its historic home in the old Mumbai Fort offices; Piyush Pandey’

Lintas, Lever International Advertising Services, began in 1939 as the house agency of Hindustan Lever and is now MullenLowe Lintas, part of IPG, run from Express Towers at Nariman Point; Surf’s Lalitaji, Liril, Idea’s S

FCB Ulka, founded as Ulka Advertising in 1961 by Bal Mundkur and part of the FCB network since 1997, is run from Nirmal, Nariman Point, and is known for Amul, Tata, Santoor and Zee campaigns.

DDB Mudra, founded in 1980 by A.

Leo Burnett India, the Publicis agency, is run from Peninsula Corporate Park, Lower Parel, and is among the most awarded agencies at Cannes for its work on Whisper, Tide and Bajaj.

McCann India, the IPG agency run by Prasoon Joshi, is headquartered in Delhi with its large Mumbai office at Prabhadevi; Coca-Cola, Nescafé and MasterCard are its accounts.

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Madison World, founded in 1988 by Sam Balsara, is the largest independent Indian media-buying and communications group, run from Madison House, Prabhadevi, with media, PR, outdoor and rural units; Godrej, Asian Paints an

GroupM, WPP’s media investment company with Mindshare, Wavemaker and EssenceMediacom, is the largest media buyer in India, run from Commerz at Goregaon and Bandra Kurla Complex.

Dentsu India, the Japanese group’s Indian network with Carat, iProspect and Dentsu Creative, runs from Lower Parel and Bandra Kurla Complex and is among the four largest media and advertising groups in the country.

Saregama, the former Gramophone Company of India founded in 1901 and owned by the RP-Sanjiv Goenka group, is the oldest music label in the country and holds the largest catalogue of Indian recorded music — the HMV years

Tips, founded in 1975 by Kumar and Ramesh Taurani, is a listed Mumbai music label and film producer at Andheri West, with the music of Raja Hindustani, Dil To Pagal Hai and Race in its catalogue.

Sony Music Entertainment India, run from Andheri East, is among the largest music labels in the country, with Bollywood soundtracks and the largest Tamil and Telugu film-music catalogues.

Universal Music India, run from Andheri East, is the Indian arm of the largest music company in the world, with Indian pop and film music and the international catalogue.

Adfactors PR, founded in 1997 by Madan Bahal and Rajesh Chaturvedi, is the largest public relations firm in India, headquartered at Lower Parel and known for financial and corporate communications for listed companies an

Wizcraft, founded in 1988 by Sabbas Joseph, Viraf Sarkari and Andre Timmins, is the best-known event company in India, producing the IIFA awards, the Filmfare awards and large brand events from its Andheri base.

Percept, founded in 1984 by Harindra and Shailendra Singh, is a Mumbai entertainment, media and events group known for the Sunburn music festival and for sports and celebrity management.

Fountainhead MKTG, founded in 1992 and part of Dentsu since 2016, is one of the largest event and experiential agencies in the country, run from Andheri East.

Concept PR, founded in 1988 and run from Queen’s Mansion at Fort, is one of the oldest independent public relations firms in India, part of the Concept group with advertising and digital arms.

Lodestar UM, the IPG Mediabrands agency, is among the five largest media buyers in India, run from Mumbai with Hindustan Unilever historically among its accounts.

Chrome Pictures, founded by Hemant Bhandari, Amit Sharma and Aleya Sen, is one of the leading advertising film production houses of Mumbai, producing commercials for national brands.

Equinox Films, founded by Ram Madhvani, is a Mumbai advertising film production house of long standing, behind many of the country’s best-known commercials.

Corcoise Films, founded by Prasoon Pandey, is a Mumbai production house that made the Fevicol, Cadbury and Asian Paints commercials of two decades.

Famous Studios at Mahalaxmi, with offices at Santacruz West, provides shooting floors, production and post-production to the advertising industry alongside films.

Cineyug, founded by the Morani brothers at Juhu, produces celebrity weddings, stadium shows and televised events, and co-produces films.

The Think Tank Entertainment at Andheri West produces experiential brand activations and corporate events.

Encompass, part of the WPP group at Lower Parel, runs experiential marketing and brand activation campaigns.

70 EMG at Bandra West produces luxury corporate events, auto shows and experiential design.

Vibgyor Brand Experiences at Goregaon East runs conferences, experiential retail setups and event logistics.

DNA Entertainment Networks at Summit Business Bay, Andheri East, produces concerts and corporate events, among the larger live-event companies of the city.

Showtime Events at Kohinoor Estate, Lower Parel, produces large events and exhibitions.

Genesis BCW, now part of Burson, at Lower Parel is one of the largest public relations firms in India, founded as Genesis PR by Prema Sagar in 1992.

MSL India, the Publicis group’s PR firm at Urmi Estate, Lower Parel, handles corporate communication and lifestyle brand PR.

Edelman India, the Indian arm of the world’s largest independent PR firm, runs its Mumbai office at Peninsula Corporate Park, Lower Parel.

Avian WE, the Indian partner of WE Communications, at Neelam Centre, Worli, is one of the larger independent PR firms in the country.

Raindrop Media at Versova, founded by Rohini Iyer, is the best-known film publicity and celebrity PR firm of the industry.

Spice PR at Santacruz West, founded by Prabhat Choudhary, handles film promotion and celebrity image management for many of the biggest Hindi releases.

Ketchum Sampark, the Omnicom PR firm, runs from Walchand Hirachand Marg at Fort.

Weber Shandwick India, the IPG PR firm, has its Mumbai office at Chhibber House, Sakinaka.

Perfect Relations, founded in 1992 by Dilip Cherian and Bobby Kewalramani, is one of the oldest Indian PR firms, with its Mumbai office at Devchand House, Worli.

Madison PR, the public relations arm of Madison World, runs from Business Point, Andheri East.

Times Music, the music label of the Times Group at The Times of India Building, publishes spiritual, independent and film music.

Omnicom Media Group India, with OMD and PHD, runs media planning and buying from Omnicom House, Santacruz East, among the largest media buyers in the country.

Wavemaker India, a GroupM agency at Santacruz East, is one of the largest media buyers in the country.

Mindshare India, the GroupM agency founded with Unilever as its anchor client, runs from Santacruz East and Andheri East.

Havas Media India runs from Commerz II, Oberoi Garden City, Goregaon East.

Laqshya Media Group, headquartered in Mumbai, is one of the largest outdoor advertising companies in India, owning hoardings, airport and transit media.

Prasad Naik at Bandra West is one of the leading fashion and advertising photographers of the city.

Rohan Shrestha at Khar West is a celebrity and fashion advertising photographer.

Farrokh Chothia at Colaba is among the senior fashion and campaign photographers of Indian advertising.

Qench Studioz at Marathon NextGen, Lower Parel, does advertising photography and production.

Lost and Hungry Studios at Parvati Industrial Estate, Lower Parel, does product and e-commerce photography.

Harnesh Joshi Studio at Lower Parel does fashion and commercial photography.

Bharat Diamond Bourse is the world’s largest diamond exchange, a complex of eight towers on twenty acres in Bandra Kurla Complex, opened in 2010 after the trade moved out of the Opera House and Zaveri Bazaar buildings wh

GJEPC is the apex body of the gem and jewellery trade, set up by the Ministry of Commerce in 1966 and headquartered at the Bharat Diamond Bourse, with its earlier office in the Diamond Plaza at Opera House.

The Gemological Institute of America runs its Indian grading laboratory at the Bharat Diamond Bourse, grading diamonds for the trade and issuing the certificates the market trusts most; its education arm teaches the GIA

IGI, the Antwerp institute, runs laboratories at the Bharat Diamond Bourse and at Opera House, grading diamonds and jewellery, and has grown with the lab-grown diamond trade; IGI India listed on the Mumbai exchanges in 2

The Mumbai Diamond Merchants’ Association, founded in 1952, is the association of the city’s diamond traders, originally of the Opera House and Zaveri Bazaar markets and now at the Bharat Diamond Bourse; it runs the trad

Rosy Blue is one of the largest diamond companies in the world, founded in Antwerp in 1960 by the Mehta family and run from Mumbai and Antwerp; its Indian company at the Bharat Diamond Bourse manufactures polished diamon

Kiran Gems, founded in 1985 by the Lakhani family, is the largest manufacturer of natural polished diamonds in the world by volume, with its headquarters at the Bharat Diamond Bourse and its vast factory at Surat employi

Hari Krishna Exports, founded in 1992 by Savji Dholakia and his brothers, is one of the largest diamond manufacturers in India, headquartered at the Bharat Diamond Bourse with its factory in Surat; it became famous for t

Venus Jewel, founded in 1969 by the Shah family, is a Surat and Mumbai diamond manufacturer known for large, high-quality polished stones and for having been the first to sell diamonds online to the trade; its office is

Dharmanandan Diamonds, founded in 1985 by the Narola and Vaghani families, is one of the largest diamond manufacturers of Surat, with its Mumbai office at the Bharat Diamond Bourse; it is a De Beers sightholder.

Blue Star Diamonds, founded in 1952 by the Mehta family, is one of the oldest diamond houses of Mumbai, at the Bharat Diamond Bourse, manufacturing polished diamonds and diamond jewellery for export.

Asian Star, founded in 1971 by the Shah family, is one of the few listed diamond companies in India, headquartered at 114 Mittal Court, Nariman Point, with offices at the Bharat Diamond Bourse and factories at Surat and

Sheetal Manufacturing Company, founded in 1979, is a Mumbai and Surat diamond manufacturer at the Bharat Diamond Bourse, known for its coloured diamonds and for pioneering lab-grown diamond jewellery in India.

Dimexon, founded in 1966 by the Mehta family of Antwerp, is a diamond manufacturer and jewellery maker with its Indian headquarters at the Bharat Diamond Bourse and factories in Surat and Coimbatore.

Mahendra Brothers, founded in 1960, is one of Mumbai’s older diamond houses, at the Bharat Diamond Bourse with cutting in Surat; it manufactures polished diamonds for export.

Sanghavi Exports, founded in 1979 by the Sanghavi family, manufactures polished diamonds and jewellery for export from the Bharat Diamond Bourse, with factories in Surat.

Renaissance Global, founded in 1989 and listed on the exchanges, manufactures diamond and gold jewellery at SEEPZ and Bhavnagar for large American and British retailers, and owns the Enchanted Disney Fine Jewelry licence

Goldiam International, founded in 1986 and listed on the exchanges, manufactures diamond jewellery at SEEPZ for American retailers and has moved strongly into lab-grown diamond jewellery.

Uni-Design, founded in 1985, manufactures diamond jewellery at SEEPZ for export and later built the retail brand Uni-Design for the Indian market.

Interjewel, part of the Rosy Blue family of companies, manufactures diamond jewellery at SEEPZ for export to America and Europe.

TBZ, founded in 1864 by Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri, is the oldest jewellery house of Zaveri Bazaar and the one that gave the street its reputation; its five-floor flagship stands at 241/43 Zaveri Bazaar and the company i

Waman Hari Pethe, founded in 1909, is the Maharashtrian jewellery house of Mumbai, with its old shop in Girgaon and showrooms at Dadar, Thane and across the state; it is known for traditional Maharashtrian gold ornaments

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Dwarkadas Chandumal, founded in 1943, is a Zaveri Bazaar jewellery house known for diamond and gold jewellery and for its showroom at Hughes Road; it is a long-established family firm.

Choksi Arvind Jewellers is a Zaveri Bazaar gold and diamond jewellery house of the Choksi family, long established in the bazaar.

Popley, founded in 1927, is a Mumbai jewellery and watch group with its historic showroom at Hughes Road and others in the city and in Dubai; Popley Eternal is its diamond brand and Popley La Classique its watch retail.

Motiwala & Sons is a pearl house of Zaveri Bazaar, as its name says — moti is pearl — dealing in natural and cultured pearls and pearl jewellery for generations.

RiddiSiddhi Bullions, founded in 1994 by Prithviraj Kothari, is the largest bullion dealer of Zaveri Bazaar and among the largest in India, importing and distributing gold and silver bars to jewellers; its rates are a re

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IBJA, the Bombay Bullion Association of 1919, is the association of the bullion and jewellery trade, headquartered in Zaveri Bazaar; its daily gold and silver rates are the reference used by the Government for sovereign

MMTC-PAMP, the joint venture of MMTC and PAMP of Switzerland, is the only LBMA-accredited gold and silver refinery in India, at Mewat in Haryana, and its bars and coins are sold through Zaveri Bazaar dealers and banks.

Kalyan Jewellers, the Thrissur chain founded in 1993 by T.

Tanishq, the jewellery brand of the Tata group’s Titan Company, launched in 1994, is the largest jewellery retailer in India with showrooms across Mumbai; Titan’s jewellery division is run from Bengaluru.

Malabar Gold, the Kozhikode chain founded in 1993, is among the largest jewellery retailers in the world by sales, with Mumbai showrooms at Zaveri Bazaar, Borivali, Ghatkopar and the suburbs.

PC Jeweller, the listed Delhi chain, has showrooms in Mumbai and is listed on the city’s exchanges.

Senco Gold, the Kolkata jewellery chain founded in 1938 and listed on the exchanges in 2023, has opened showrooms in Mumbai as it expands west.

Rajesh Exports, the Bengaluru company listed on the Mumbai exchanges, is the largest gold jewellery manufacturer and refiner in the world by volume, owning the Valcambi refinery in Switzerland.

Prasad Chambers at Opera House was, with Panchratna, the diamond trading building of Mumbai before the Bharat Diamond Bourse opened; its floors of small offices still hold diamond and gemstone traders, especially in mele

Panchratna at Opera House was the diamond trading building of Mumbai from the 1970s until the move to BKC, and remains full of diamond, coloured-stone and jewellery offices; the lanes around it are the old diamond market

Chandrakant Bhimji Zaveri is a Zaveri Bazaar jewellery house of the Zaveri family line, dealing in pearl and silver jewellery alongside gold; it is one of the bazaar’s long-standing pearl counters.

Narandas & Brothers is a Zaveri Bazaar jewellers dealing in silver and pearl jewellery, among the family firms of the main bazaar lane.

Oriental Pearl is a pearl wholesaler of Zaveri Bazaar supplying loose pearls and strings to the bazaar’s jewellers.

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Natural Gems on Dhanji Street, Kalbadevi, deals in pearls and coloured gemstones for the jewellery trade; Dhanji Street is the pearl and stone lane of the old city.

Nikki Trading Corporation at 2nd Bhoiwada, Kalbadevi, is a wholesaler of pearl and platinum jewellery to retailers.

Lalit Moti Centre on Kika Street near Charni Road is a pearl and bead wholesaler — moti is the pearl of its name — supplying the costume and fine jewellery makers of the city.

Babla Enterprises on Dhanji Street is a pearl dealer of the Pydhonie lanes, one of the wholesale counters of the pearl trade.

Varma Gems & Jewellery at Ruby Chambers, Dhanji Street, Zaveri Bazaar, makes and sells pearl and gemstone jewellery and loose stones.

Madan Jewellery at Marine Lines is a retailer of pearl and silver jewellery close to the old bazaar.

Shwet Ratan Impex at Panchratna, Opera House, cuts and exports emerald, ruby and sapphire stones and beads, one of the coloured-stone firms still in the old diamond building.

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Balaji Jewels at Opera House deals in ruby, spinel and other coloured stones for jewellers and exporters.

Om Gems and Jewels in Zaveri Bazaar retails coloured gemstones and gem-set jewellery, including the astrological stones the bazaar is asked for.

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Shri Ambica Jewellers in Zaveri Bazaar is a silver house selling silver articles, tableware and gift items.

Maa Silver in Zaveri Bazaar makes and sells silver artefacts, coins and gift articles, with a large online business alongside the shop.

Tikamdas Hiranand & Company is a Zaveri Bazaar silver jewellery wholesaler of long standing.

Shree Krishna Silver on Sheikh Memon Street is a silver jewellery wholesaler supplying retailers across the state.

Shree Shambhav Silver in Patwa Chawl, Zaveri Bazaar, is a silver wholesaler in the bazaar’s silver lane.

SMJ 925 Silver Jewellery in Zaveri Bazaar retails sterling silver jewellery.

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Tohfa Jewellery, between Zaveri Bazaar and Bhuleshwar, is a wholesaler of jewellery including sterling silver.

Gazdar, in the arcade of the Taj Mahal Palace hotel at Apollo Bunder since 1933, is the city’s best-known house for vintage, estate and art deco jewellery and objets d’art; its clients have included royalty and film star

Ghanasingh, founded in 1889 and run by the family from its Bandra West showroom, makes bespoke fine jewellery in heritage and polki styles for the city’s weddings.

Anmol Jewellers, founded in 1986 by Ishu Datwani, is a Bandra West house known for designer kundan and polki jewellery in the antique style.

Jaipur Gems on Hughes Road, founded in 1974, brought the Jaipur jadau and kundan tradition to Mumbai and remains one of the city’s bridal houses.

Danabhai Jewellers, founded in 1864 and run from Santacruz West, is one of the oldest jewellery houses of Mumbai, known for temple and antique-reproduction jewellery.

Shubham Motiwala & Jewellers in Zaveri Bazaar manufactures antique-finish gold jewellery for the trade.

Piara Singh & Sons in Zaveri Bazaar is a manufacturer of antique-style gold jewellery.

Heer Gold in Zaveri Bazaar manufactures antique gold jewellery for retailers.

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Narrondass Manordass on Sheikh Memon Street is a bullion refiner and trader of Zaveri Bazaar, one of the names behind the bazaar’s daily rate for generations.

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Mangalmani Jewellers in 3rd Agiary Lane deals in bullion and gold for the trade.

Opus Refinery on Homji Street, Fort, is a bullion dealer serving jewellers and investors.

Mahavir Bullion & Refinery at Mahape, Navi Mumbai, refines gold and supplies bullion to the Zaveri Bazaar trade.

Augmont, headquartered in Mumbai, runs a BIS- and NABL-accredited gold refinery and a digital gold platform, and supplies bullion to jewellers; it is one of the newer refiners of the bazaar trade.

Chenaji Narsinghji is one of the oldest bullion trading houses of Zaveri Bazaar, dealing in physical gold for the bazaar’s jewellers.

MD Overseas is a Mumbai bullion importer and dealer, among the large private importers of gold bars for the Zaveri Bazaar market.

MNC Bullion is a Zaveri Bazaar bullion dealer in gold and silver bars.

Varsha Bullion Hallmarking Centres, on Mumba Devi Road in Zaveri Bazaar and at Kamala Mills, Lower Parel, are BIS-recognised assaying and hallmarking centres serving the bazaar’s jewellers.

Mahavir Hallmarking Centre in Patwa Chawl is a BIS-recognised hallmarking centre of Zaveri Bazaar.

Maya Gold Hallmark in Old Satta Galli is a hallmarking centre of the bazaar.

MK Hallmarking Centre in Telli Galli, Kalbadevi, assays and hallmarks gold for the trade.

Nakoda Hallmarking Centre in 1st Agiary Lane is a BIS-recognised centre in the bazaar.

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Sunbera India Private Limited is a jewellery manufacturer at Mulji Jetha Market, 15/16 Navi Galli, opposite TBZ in Zaveri Bazaar.

Padmavati Jewel Industries is a gold jewellery manufacturer, wholesaler and exporter on the 4th floor of Mansingka CHS, 254/258 Kalbadevi Road.

Royal Chain Limited makes and supplies 18-carat and 22-carat gold chains and matching ornaments in bulk.

Dagina Jewellers is a wholesale maker of plain gold jewellery on the 3rd floor of ADN House, 157 Sheikh Memon Street (offices 301/301A), L K Market, Zaveri Bazaar.

Swarnsarita Jewels India Limited is a listed jewellery manufacturer at 17/19 Dhanji Street, Chippi Chawl, Kalbadevi.

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Trio Jewels Pvt Ltd is a jewellery maker at Plot GJ-02 in SEEPZ++, the newer jewellery block of SEEPZ in Andheri East.

KP Sanghvi International Pvt.

Tiana Jewellery Exports Pvt Ltd works from G 48 in the Gems & Jewellery Complex of SEEPZ, Andheri East.

Euroshine Jewellery Works Pvt.

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Fine Jewellery Manufacturing Ltd.

Jawaharlal Nehru Port at Nhava Sheva, across the harbour in Navi Mumbai, opened in 1989 and is the largest container port in India, handling more than half the country’s container traffic through five terminals run by AP

Mumbai Port, the old Bombay Port Trust of 1873, runs the docks along the eastern waterfront — Indira Dock, Prince’s and Victoria Docks, the Jawahar Dweep oil berths and the Sewri and Haji Bunder bulk berths — from its he

APM Terminals, the port arm of the Maersk group, runs Gateway Terminals India at JNPA, opened in 2006 and for years the busiest container terminal in India.

DP World of Dubai runs two terminals at JNPA — Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal, the first private terminal in India in 1999, and Nhava Sheva India Gateway Terminal — and inland container depots and freight t

BMCT, run by PSA International of Singapore, is the newest and largest terminal at JNPA, opened in 2018 with a second phase in 2025, built to handle the biggest container ships that call in India.

Gateway Distriparks, listed on the exchanges and headquartered at Sector 6, Dronagiri, Navi Mumbai, runs container freight stations at JNPA and inland container depots and container trains across the north through Gatewa

Allcargo, founded in 1993 by Shashi Kiran Shetty and headquartered at Allcargo House, CST Road, Kalina, is the largest less-than-container-load consolidator in the world through its ECU Worldwide arm, and runs container

Continental Warehousing, part of the NDR group, runs one of the largest container freight stations at Nhava Sheva, with an inland container depot and bonded warehousing.

Seabird Marine Services runs a container freight station at Dronagiri near JNPA, handling import and export containers for the trade.

JWR Logistics, part of the J.

CONCOR, the Railways’ container company, listed on the exchanges and headquartered in Delhi, runs the inland container depot at Kalamboli near Panvel and container trains from JNPA to the north; it is the largest contain

Great Eastern Shipping, founded in 1948 by the Sheth and Bhiwandiwalla families, is the largest private shipping company in India, listed on the exchanges and headquartered at Ocean House, 134/A Dr.

Shipping Corporation of India, the Government’s shipping company formed in 1961, is headquartered at Shipping House, 245 Madame Cama Road, Nariman Point, and runs tankers, bulk carriers, container ships and the Andaman p

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Samsara Shipping, founded in 1996, is a Mumbai shipping agency at Ballard Estate representing container lines and running liner and feeder services on the Indian coast.

Forbes & Company, founded in 1767 and the oldest company in India, is a Shapoorji Pallonji company headquartered at Forbes Building, Charanjit Rai Marg, Fort; its shipping and logistics arm has been agent for lines at Mu

Jeena & Company, founded in 1900, is one of the oldest customs brokers and freight forwarders in India, headquartered at Jeena House, Marol, Andheri East, with its historic office at Ballard Estate; air and sea freight,

Lee & Muirhead, founded in 1943, is a Mumbai freight forwarder and customs broker at Ballard Estate, part of the Lemuir group, handling air and sea freight, project cargo and exhibitions.

Liladhar Pasoo, founded in 1945, is a Mumbai customs broker and freight forwarder with offices at Masjid Bunder and Nhava Sheva, among the older houses of the trade.

DHL, the German express and logistics group, runs DHL Express, DHL Global Forwarding and DHL Supply Chain in India from Mumbai offices at Andheri and Bandra Kurla Complex, with its Blue Dart subsidiary the largest domest

Blue Dart, founded in Mumbai in 1983 by Clyde Cooper and partners, is the largest domestic express carrier in India, listed on the exchanges, owned by DHL and headquartered at Blue Dart Centre, Sahar Airport Road, Andher

Delhivery, the Gurugram logistics company listed on the exchanges, runs sort centres and warehouses at Bhiwandi that handle e-commerce parcels for the Mumbai region.

IndoSpace, the Everstone and GLP venture, is the largest developer of industrial and logistics parks in India, with several parks at Bhiwandi serving the Mumbai market.

ESR, the Asia-Pacific logistics real estate group, runs logistics parks at Bhiwandi and other Indian cities, leasing warehouses to e-commerce and retail companies.

Mazagon Dock, the Government shipyard at Mazagaon on the eastern waterfront, builds warships and submarines for the Navy — the Scorpène submarines and the Visakhapatnam-class destroyers — on a site that has built ships s

Snowman Logistics, listed on the exchanges and part of the Gateway Distriparks group, is the largest cold-chain company in India, with temperature-controlled warehouses at Taloja and Bhiwandi and refrigerated trucks acro

Coldman Logistics, part of the Celcius/CCS group, runs cold storages at Bhiwandi and other cities serving food and pharmaceutical companies in the Mumbai region.

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport at Sahar and Santacruz, run by Mumbai International Airport Limited of the Adani group since 2021, is the second-busiest airport in India and its largest air-cargo gatewa

Steel Authority of India’s stockyard at Kalamboli, in the steel market of Navi Mumbai, is the distribution point for its plates, coils and structurals in the Mumbai region; the Kalamboli steel market around it is the lar

Ericson & Richards, founded in 1958, is a Mumbai marine survey and consultancy firm at Ballard Estate, surveying ships, cargo and offshore units for owners, insurers and charterers.

Blue Ocean Line runs cold storage at Bhiwandi for frozen and chilled food distributors of the Mumbai region.

Rishi Ice & Cold Storage at Taloja is a cold storage serving seafood exporters and food companies of Navi Mumbai.

Gatha Cold Chain Solutions runs temperature-controlled storage at Bhiwandi.

Deesan Cold Storage at Bhiwandi stores frozen and chilled goods for distributors.

Nature Fresh Cold Storage at Bhiwandi is a frozen food storage facility.

Bhanu Ice & Cold Storage at Bhiwandi is a cold storage serving the food trade.

Magnum Cargo, at Sahar Cargo Estate beside the airport, is a licensed customs broker and IATA air cargo agent handling air and sea freight for exporters and importers.

Om Freight Forwarders, founded in 1987 and headquartered at Mulund West with an office opposite the Sahar air cargo complex, is a customs broker and freight forwarder for air and sea cargo.

Samruddhii Global at Nhava Sheva is a customs house agent handling sea and air clearance at JNPT.

Fourstar Enterprises at the CWC Building, Dronagiri, is a customs broker at JNPT.

Pranav Global Trade at Ghatkopar is a customs clearance agent for importers and exporters.

Swarex Shipping & Aviation at Mira Road is a customs house agent for sea and air cargo.

Speedmark Worldwide Cargo Movers at Andheri East handles air imports and exports with customs clearance at the Sahar cargo complex.

Traket Multiventures in Navi Mumbai runs 20- and 40-foot container trailers between JNPT and the factories and CFSs of the region.

Badshah Logistics, in the container transport business since 1986, runs a fleet of more than 150 trailers and trucks between JNPT, Mumbai and the hinterland.

Kool-ex Cold Chain, headquartered in Mumbai, is the largest pharmaceutical cold-chain logistics company in India, with temperature-controlled trucks and warehouses including at Bhiwandi.

SPNA Cold Storage at Bhiwandi is a frozen food storage facility.

Kuehne + Nagel, the Swiss forwarder, runs its Indian air and sea freight business from Andheri East, with temperature-controlled air logistics for pharma exporters.

DB Schenker, the German logistics group, runs air cargo consolidation and contract logistics from Andheri East and Bhiwandi.

Expeditors, the Seattle forwarder, runs its Mumbai air and ocean forwarding from Andheri East.

Bolloré Logistics, now part of CEVA, handles aerospace and pharmaceutical air freight from its Andheri East office.

Balaji Surface Transport at Dronagiri, Uran, runs container trailers between JNPT and the factories of the region.

AVG Logistics, listed on the exchanges, runs EXIM container transport and fleet services from its Vashi office to and from JNPT.

Shreeji Translogistics, a listed Mumbai transport company founded in 1994 with its office at Vashi, runs bonded trucking and container freight for the port.

Best Roadways, founded in 1985 and headquartered in Mumbai, runs more than 800 owned trucks for full and part loads across India, with a customs-bonded warehouse at JNPT.

Garg Transport Company at Nhava Sheva runs import and export container trailers from JNPT.

Lalji Mulji Transport Co.

Sun Pharma is the largest pharmaceutical company in India and the fourth-largest generic company in the world, founded in 1983 by Dilip Shanghvi with five psychiatry products in Kolkata and headquartered since at Sun Hou

Cipla was founded in Mumbai in 1935 by Khwaja Abdul Hamied as the Chemical, Industrial and Pharmaceutical Laboratories, and its head office is Cipla House on Peninsula Business Park, Lower Parel; the old factory at Vikhr

Lupin was founded in 1968 by Desh Bandhu Gupta, a chemistry lecturer, and is headquartered at Kalpataru Inspire on Western Express Highway, Santacruz East, with its Lupin Research Park at Rabale in Navi Mumbai.

Glenmark, founded in 1977 by Gracias Saldanha and named for his sons Glenn and Mark, is headquartered at Glenmark House in Andheri East and led by Glenn Saldanha; it is known for dermatology, respiratory and oncology pro

Alkem, founded in 1973 by Samprada Singh, is headquartered at Alkem House on Senapati Bapat Marg, Lower Parel, and is among the five largest Indian pharma companies in the domestic market; its Clavam and Pan brands are a

Wockhardt, built by Habil Khorakiwala from the Worli Chemical Works of 1960s, is headquartered at Wockhardt Towers in Bandra Kurla Complex and runs its research centre at Aurangabad; it is known for biotechnology product

Ipca, headquartered at International House in Kandivali West, is one of the largest makers of active pharmaceutical ingredients in India — chloroquine, artemisinin derivatives and others — alongside its formulations busi

Unichem, founded in 1944 by Amrut Mody, is headquartered at Unichem Bhavan in Jogeshwari West and makes APIs and generic formulations for export after selling its Indian brands to Torrent in 2017; Ipca bought control of

FDC, the Fairdeal Corporation of 1936, is headquartered at B-8 MIDC Industrial Estate, Waluj, with its corporate office in Jogeshwari; it is the maker of Electral oral rehydration salts, Zifi and Enerzal, and a large exp

USV, founded in 1961 by Vithal Gandhi with Revlon as partner, is a privately held Mumbai pharma company headquartered at Arvind Vithal Gandhi Chowk, BSD Marg, Govandi, and is the leader in diabetes medicines in India wit

Piramal Pharma, spun out of Piramal Enterprises in 2022, is one of the largest contract development and manufacturing companies in India, with plants in India, the UK, the US and Canada, and a consumer business with bran

Abbott India, the listed Indian arm of the American company, is headquartered at Godrej BKC in Bandra Kurla Complex and became the largest multinational pharma company in India after Abbott bought Piramal’s domestic busi

GSK Pharmaceuticals India, listed on the exchanges and headquartered at Dr.

Pfizer Limited, the listed Indian company of the American group, is headquartered at The Capital in Bandra Kurla Complex; Becosules, Corex, Magnex and Prevenar are among its Indian products, made at its Goa plant and by

Sanofi India, the listed Indian arm of the French group, is headquartered at Sanofi House in Powai, with its plant at Goa; Lantus insulin, Allegra, Combiflam and Avil are its best-known products, and its consumer healthc

Novartis India, listed on the exchanges, is headquartered at Inspire BKC in Bandra Kurla Complex, with the group’s large global development and business services centre in Hyderabad; Voveran, Calcium Sandoz and oncology

Bayer’s Indian companies — Bayer CropScience, listed on the exchanges, and Bayer Zydus Pharma — are headquartered at Bayer House, Hiranandani Estate, Thane, where the old factory was; crop protection, seeds, pharmaceutic

Boehringer Ingelheim India, the arm of the German family-owned group, is headquartered at Godrej BKC in Bandra Kurla Complex with earlier offices in Thane; diabetes, respiratory and cardiovascular medicines and animal he

RPG Life Sciences, the pharma company of the RPG group, is headquartered at RPG House on Worli and runs its plants at Thane and Ankleshwar; it makes formulations, APIs and biotechnology products.

Reliance Life Sciences, the biotechnology company of the Reliance group, runs the Dhirubhai Ambani Life Sciences Centre at Rabale in Navi Mumbai, where it makes biosimilars, plasma proteins and vaccines and does stem-cel

Ajanta Pharma, founded in 1973 by the Agrawal family, is headquartered at Ajanta House, Charkop, Kandivali West, and is a listed mid-sized pharma company strong in Africa, Asia and the US with branded generics in cardiol

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Aarti Industries, founded in 1984 by Chandrakant Gogri and partners, is headquartered at 71 Udyog Kshetra, Mulund-Goregaon Link Road, Mulund West, and is one of the largest benzene-based speciality chemical makers in the

Deepak Fertilisers, founded in 1979 by C.

Tata Chemicals, headquartered at Bombay House, Fort, is one of the largest soda ash makers in the world, with plants at Mithapur in Gujarat, in the UK, the US and Kenya; Tata Salt was its consumer product before that bus

Pidilite, founded in 1959 by Balvant Parekh, is headquartered at Regent Chambers, Nariman Point, with its corporate campus at Andheri East; Fevicol, Fevikwik, M-Seal and Dr.

Asian Paints, founded in a Mumbai garage in 1942 by four friends, is headquartered at Asian Paints House in Santacruz East and is the largest paint company in India and among the ten largest in the world, with plants acr

Kansai Nerolac, the Goodlass Nerolac of 1920 now owned by Kansai Paint of Japan, is headquartered at Nerolac House on Ganpatrao Kadam Marg, Lower Parel, and is the second-largest paint company in India and the leader in

BASF India, the listed Indian arm of the German group, is headquartered at The Capital in Bandra Kurla Complex, with plants at Thane, Dahej, Mangalore and Navi Mumbai; agricultural solutions, performance chemicals, coati

Clariant India, the listed arm of the Swiss group, is headquartered at Reliable Tech Park, Airoli, Navi Mumbai, with its plant at Roha; pigments, masterbatches, catalysts and chemicals for textiles and leather are its li

Godrej Industries, headquartered at Godrej One in Vikhroli, makes oleochemicals — fatty acids, fatty alcohols, glycerine and surfactants — at Valia and Ambernath, and holds the group’s stakes in Godrej Consumer, Godrej P

Atul, the Lalbhai group company founded in 1947, has its plant and head office at Atul in Valsad, Gujarat, and its Mumbai office at Atul House, Bandra Kurla Complex; dyes, intermediates, agrochemicals, aromatics and phar

Navin Fluorine, the Mafatlal group’s fluorochemicals company, is headquartered at Mafatlal House on H.

Gharda Chemicals, founded in 1964 by the chemist Keki Gharda, is a privately held Mumbai company headquartered at Gharda House, Bandra West, making agrochemicals, pigments and high-performance polymers at plants in Lote,

Rallis India, the Tata group’s agrochemicals company founded in 1948, is headquartered at Sharda Terraces in Navi Mumbai with earlier offices at Fort; crop protection, seeds and plant growth nutrients are its products, m

Bharat Serums and Vaccines, founded in 1971, makes anti-snake-venom serums, anti-D immunoglobulin and women’s health biologicals at its plant in Ambernath, with its head office at Airoli, Navi Mumbai; Mankind Pharma boug

Indoco Remedies, founded in 1947, is headquartered at Indoco House on Dr.

Medley Pharmaceuticals, founded in 1969, is a privately held Mumbai company headquartered in Andheri East, making formulations in anti-infectives, pain and diabetes at plants in Daman and Jammu.

Blue Cross Laboratories, founded in 1965, is a privately held Mumbai formulations company headquartered at Peninsula Chambers, Lower Parel, with plants at Nashik and Goa, and a large field force for the domestic market.

Macleods, founded in 1986 by the Agarwal family, is a privately held Mumbai company headquartered at Atlanta Arcade, Andheri East, and among the ten largest Indian pharma companies by domestic sales, with a large anti-TB

Meyer Organics, founded in 1979, is a privately held formulations company headquartered at Thane with plants in Thane and Kandivali, known for its vitamins and nutraceutical brands.

Themis Medicare, founded in 1969, is a listed Mumbai pharma company headquartered at Plot 69A, MIDC, Andheri East, making APIs and formulations at Vapi and Haridwar.

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Foray Pharma Distributors is a Princess Street pharmaceutical distributor supplying retail chemists.

Meher Distributors is a pharmaceutical distributor of the Princess Street market.

Amritlal & Brothers is a pharmaceutical wholesaler on Princess Street, among the older firms of the medicine market.

Rapco Agency in Damodar Building, Princess Street, distributes generic medicines to chemists.

Pharma Access at Royale Heritage, Princess Street, is a pharmaceutical supply and distribution firm.

Hikal, founded in 1988 by the Hiremath family and listed on the exchanges, is a pharmaceutical and crop-protection contract manufacturer headquartered at Great Eastern Chambers, CBD Belapur, with plants at Taloja, Mahad,

Inventys Research, headquartered at One International Centre, Prabhadevi, is a contract research and manufacturing company for pharmaceutical and agrochemical customers, with plants at Butibori near Nagpur.

Accutest Research Laboratories in Navi Mumbai is a clinical research organisation running Phase I and bioequivalence studies for Indian and foreign drug makers.

OmniActive, founded in 2005 and headquartered in Thane, makes nutraceutical ingredients — lutein, curcumin and plant extracts — for supplement makers worldwide, with its own clinical research programme.

Inventia Healthcare, founded in 1985 and headquartered in Andheri East, develops and manufactures oral solid dosage formulations for pharmaceutical companies in India and export markets, with its plant at Ambernath.

First Time US Pharmaceuticals in Navi Mumbai is a formulation development and contract research company working on generic dossiers for regulated markets.

Sadhana Nitro Chem, founded in 1973 and listed on the exchanges, is headquartered at Ramkrishna Chambers, C.

Valiant Organics, a listed company of the Aarti family group, is headquartered at Mulund West and makes chloro-phenols and dye and agro intermediates at Vapi, Sarigam and Jhagadia.

Bhageria Industries, founded in 1989 and listed on the exchanges, is headquartered at Goregaon and makes dyes, dye intermediates and speciality chemicals at Vapi, with a solar power business alongside.

Vidhi Specialty Food Ingredients, founded in 1994 and listed on the exchanges, is headquartered at Tardeo and is one of the largest makers of synthetic food colours in the world, exporting to over seventy countries from

Kolorjet Chemicals is a Mumbai-headquartered maker of dyes, pigments and intermediates for textiles, paper and inks.

Kevin India Co.

Empire Dyes and Pigment Intermediates on Kazi Syed Street, Masjid Bunder, trades colourant intermediates in the old chemicals market.

JSW Paints, launched in 2019 by the JSW group from Jindal Mansion on Peddar Road, makes decorative and industrial coatings at Vasind and Vijayanagar, and bought Akzo Nobel India’s decorative business in 2025.

Nikhil Adhesives, founded in 1986 and listed on the exchanges, is headquartered on Sahar Road, Andheri East, and makes adhesives, emulsions and construction chemicals at plants in Dahanu, Silvassa and Gujarat.

Zigma Paints is a Mumbai-headquartered maker of industrial paints and powder coatings.

Procter & Gamble Health, the former Merck Limited bought by P&G in 2018, is listed on the exchanges and headquartered at Chakala, Andheri East; Neurobion, Evion, Polybion and Seven Seas are its vitamin and OTC brands, ma

Ascent Meditech, founded in 1994 and headquartered at Goregaon East, makes orthopaedic supports and pain-relief products under the Flamingo brand, sold through chemists across India.

Koye Pharmaceuticals, headquartered at Phoenix Market City, Kurla West, makes OTC wellness and nutritional products.

Cipla Health, the consumer healthcare arm of Cipla set up in 2016 and run from Lower Parel, sells Nicotex, Cipladine, Omnigel and Maxirich through chemists and online.

Sun Pharma’s consumer healthcare division, run from Sun House, Goregaon East, sells Revital H, Volini, Abzorb and other OTC brands that came with Ranbaxy.

Raymond, founded in 1925 as the Raymond Woollen Mill at Thane and built by the Singhania family, is the largest maker of worsted suiting fabric in the world, headquartered at Plantation House, Pokhran Road, Thane; its Th

Siyaram’s, founded in 1978 by the Poddar family and headquartered at B-5 Trade World, Kamala Mills, Lower Parel, is one of the largest makers of blended suiting and shirting fabric in India, with its mills at Tarapur and

Donear, founded in 1977 by the Agarwal family and headquartered at Donear House, Mahim, makes suiting and shirting fabric at Surat and Bhilad and owns the brands Donear, Grado and, since 2020, OCM and Mayur; it is listed

Bombay Dyeing, founded in 1879 by Nowrosjee Wadia, is the flagship of the Wadia group and the name most Mumbaikars associate with the mill era; its mills at Lower Parel and Worli are now Island City Centre and Axis House

Century Textiles, founded in 1897 and the B.

Mafatlal Industries, the textile company of the Mafatlal family founded in 1905, once ran mills across the city and now makes fabrics, uniforms and school-wear at Nadiad, headquartered at Mafatlal House, H.

Morarjee Textiles, the Piramal family’s mill company descended from Morarjee Goculdas Spinning and Weaving of 1871, ran the Morarjee Mills at Parel, now Peninsula Corporate Park; its fine cotton fabrics are made at Butib

Alok Industries, founded in 1986 and once the largest integrated textile company in India, went through insolvency and was bought by Reliance Industries and JM Financial in 2020; headquartered at Peninsula Tower, Lower P

Welspun Living, the former Welspun India founded in 1985 by B.

Grasim, the Aditya Birla flagship founded in 1947 as Gwalior Rayon, is the largest maker of viscose staple fibre in the world (Birla Cellulose) and the holding company of UltraTech Cement and Aditya Birla Capital; its re

Arvind, the Lalbhai group’s Ahmedabad company founded in 1931, is the largest denim maker in India and a large shirting and suiting supplier; its fabric is sold through mill-agent outlets at Hindmata and Dadar, and Arvin

Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail, headquartered at Piramal Agastya Corporate Park, Kurla, is the largest branded-apparel company in India with Louis Philippe, Van Heusen, Allen Solly, Peter England, Pantaloons and the Sab

Trent, the Tata group’s retail company headquartered at Bombay House, Fort, runs Westside, Zudio and Star Bazaar; Zudio’s value fashion made Trent one of the fastest-growing retailers in the country in the 2020s, and it

Shoppers Stop, founded in 1991 by the Raheja group with its first store at Andheri, is the oldest department store chain in India, headquartered at Umang Tower, Malad West, and listed on the exchanges.

Page Industries, the Bengaluru licensee of Jockey and Speedo for India, is listed on the Mumbai exchanges and one of the most valued apparel companies in the country.

Mohanlal Dayalji is one of the old houses of Mangaldas Market, the cloth market behind Crawford Market, dealing in silk and embroidered fabric by the metre for the city’s tailors and bridal buyers.

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Narandas Rajaram, founded in 1894, is one of the oldest cloth merchants of Mulji Jetha Market, the wholesale cloth market of Kalbadevi built in 1870s by the merchant Mulji Jetha; the firm was agent for the mills and deal

The Cut Piece Cloth Association represents the traders of Mangaldas Market and the cut-piece cloth trade of the city, the merchants who buy mill production in bulk and sell fabric by the metre.

The Textiles Committee, set up by Act of Parliament in 1963 under the Ministry of Textiles, is headquartered at P.

SRTEPC, set up in 1954 and headquartered at Resham Bhavan, Veer Nariman Road, Churchgate, is the export promotion council for man-made fibre textiles — polyester, viscose, nylon fabrics and yarns — representing the expor

Texprocil, set up in 1954 and headquartered at Engineering Centre, 9 Mathew Road, Opera House, is the export promotion council for cotton textiles — yarn, fabric and made-ups — the largest segment of India’s textile expo

BTRA, set up in 1954 at Ghatkopar as the industry’s research association, tests fibres, yarns and fabrics, runs training for mills and powerloom units, and does research in textile processing.

Nalli, the Chennai silk house founded in 1928, has its Mumbai showroom on Telang Road, Matunga East, in the Tamil quarter of the city, selling Kanjivaram and other silk sarees; it is among the best-known saree houses in

Kala Niketan, founded in 1950, is a Mumbai saree house with showrooms at Dadar and Marine Lines, known for silk and bridal sarees and for its film-star clientele of the 1960s and 70s.

Sundari Silks, the Chennai silk house, runs its Mumbai showroom at King’s Circle, Matunga, selling Kanjivaram and South Indian silks.

Bharatkshetra at Dadar West is a saree house selling silk, Paithani and traditional sarees to the Maharashtrian families of central Mumbai.

Saree Palace on Kalbadevi Road is a saree retailer of the old cloth district.

Bhagwandas & Co.

Unifro Textiles, founded in 1988, makes school and corporate uniforms in Mumbai.

Gopesh Uniforms, since 2000, makes school, industrial and corporate uniforms in Mumbai.

Uniform Weavers at Sewri makes uniforms for corporates, hotels and hospitals.

Associated Uniforms at Ashirwad Industrial Estate, Goregaon West, makes uniforms and supplies uniform fabric.

HSD Uniforms makes corporate and industrial uniforms in Mumbai.

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Haash India Exports at Malad East does garment job work and export stitching.

Ivy Fabrique at Malad East is a garment job-work unit.

Shivam Garment Works at Malad East is a garment job-work unit.

Siddhi Garments on the Sion-Bandra Link Road does readymade garment job work in the Dharavi garment belt.

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Bharat Engineering Company at Popatwadi Corner, Kalbadevi Road, deals in textile machine parts and accessories.

Expotex International in Kalbadevi deals in used textile machinery.

Phoenix Machinery Agency at Girgaon is a textile machinery dealer.

Textile Art Machinery on Sahar Road, Andheri, deals in textile machinery.

Meena Textile Traders is a Mumbai textile machinery dealer of some forty-six years.

Meeta Trading Co.

Vikrant Trading Co.

Jigna Fabrics, forty years in Hindmata Market, wholesales dress materials and suit pieces.

Padmavati Creation in 6th Lane, Mangaldas Market, is a wholesale clothing house.

Ethnocraft in Dharam Kata Lane, Mangaldas Market, wholesales women’s ethnic wear.

Ved Brothers in Old Post Office Lane, Mangaldas Market, wholesales dress materials and kurtis.

Indo Count Industries, founded in 1988 and listed on the exchanges, is headquartered at Nariman Point and is among the largest bed-linen exporters in the world from its Kolhapur plants.

Faze Three, founded in 1985 and listed on the exchanges, is headquartered at Nariman Point and exports bath mats, rugs, cushions and curtains from its plants at Silvassa, Dapada and Panipat.

D’Decor, founded in 1999 by the Arora family, is the largest furnishing fabric maker in India, headquartered in Mumbai with its plant at Tarapur, selling curtains and upholstery fabric through dealers nationwide.

Eurotrade Textiles is a Mumbai home-textile exporter of bed, table and kitchen linen and terry towels.

Bombay Handloom House in Kitchen Garden Lane, Kalbadevi, wholesales and retails bedsheets, curtains and blankets.

Crown Textiles in Dubash Market, Sheikh Memon Street, wholesales furnishing fabric, curtains and towels.

Pravin Kumar & Co.

Ghella Dayal & Co., in Mulji Jetha Market since 1850, is among the oldest cloth firms of the city, dealing in mulls and grey cotton cloth by the bale.

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Leena & Jeel Textiles in 7th Lane, Mangaldas Market, wholesales suiting, shirting and kurta fabric.

Shobhana Fabrics in Gopal Gully, Mangaldas Market, wholesales linen and mulmul cotton.

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Matunga Saree Kendra at Matunga Central sells South Indian silk and handloom sarees to the Tamil families of the quarter.

Vardhan Silk Palace at Dadar West sells silk sarees, lehengas and brocade textiles for weddings.

Radhika Silks at Matunga Central sells Kanjivaram and festive silk sarees.

Manmandir Sarees at Dadar West sells silk, tussar and woven bridal sarees.

New Mahalakshmi Stores on Lakhamsi Napoo Road, Matunga East, is a long-standing Kanjivaram and South Indian saree shop of the quarter.

Shivshahi Paithani on N.

Silk Museum at Dadar is a silk saree house of the Dadar saree market.

Saree Ghar on Ranade Road, Dadar West, is a saree shop of the Dadar market.

Atlas Uniforms at Charni Road makes hospital scrubs, hospitality and corporate uniforms.

Masuraj Garments at Lower Parel has made school uniforms for over twenty-five years.

Andy Uniforms in Kalbadevi makes and wholesales uniforms.

Puru Lifestyle is a Mumbai maker of school and institutional uniforms.

Kachins at Tardeo, founded in 1966, is one of the best-known bespoke tailors of Mumbai, dressing the city’s businessmen and film stars in suits and sherwanis.

Smart Tailors at Fort is a bespoke suit tailor of the old business district.

Ashok Tailors at Bandra West does couture tailoring, alterations and pattern making.

Bharat Job Works at Kurla West does bulk woven garment cutting and assembly job work.

Style Craft Tailoring at Dadar West tailors uniforms and traditional outfits.

Shree Shakti Arts is a Mumbai garment job-work unit for cutting, stitching and finishing.

Batliboi, founded in 1892 and listed on the exchanges, is headquartered at Fort and is one of the oldest machinery companies in India, dealing in textile machinery, machine tools and air engineering.

Peass Industrial Engineers, founded in 1946 and headquartered in Mumbai with its works at Navsari, makes yarn winding and doubling machinery for the spinning mills.

Laxmi Shuttleless Looms in Kalbadevi deals in weaving machinery parts, shuttles and loom accessories.

Voltas, the Tata company headquartered at Chinchpokli, has sold textile machinery to Indian mills through its textile machinery division since the 1950s, representing LMW and other makers.

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Priti India Textile at Goregaon West deals in textile machinery.

Sanjali Impex at Kandivali East imports and exports textile machines.

Weavetex Engineers is a Mumbai textile machinery dealer.

National Garments at Dadar West wholesales menswear — shirts and trousers — in bulk.

Sunder Garments in Kalbadevi wholesales readymade kidswear, nightwear and hosiery.

New Hindmata Dress Stores at Dadar East wholesales readymade salwar suits, dress materials and ethnic wear.

Shreeji Apparels in Kalbadevi wholesales women’s western wear and casual tops.

Vardhman Readymade Garments at Dadar West wholesales kurtis, leggings and daily wear.

Rishabh Garments in Kalbadevi wholesales t-shirts, track pants and casual hosiery.

Raj Garment Collection at Dadar East wholesales traditional readymade garments.

Roopam in Kalbadevi has wholesaled kidswear and toys for some fifty-seven years.

Madura Fabric Shop opposite Swadeshi Market on Kalbadevi Road wholesales readymade garments and menswear.

Portico New York, the brand of Creative Portico of Mumbai, sells bedspreads, duvet covers and bath linen through its own stores and department stores across India.

Soma, the Jaipur block-print house, has its Mumbai shop at Colaba selling hand block printed bedspreads, quilts and home textiles.

Jagdish Store, the Delhi furnishing house, has its Mumbai showroom at Lower Parel for furnishings, bed covers and made-to-measure drapes.

Vallabhdas Madhavji & Co.

Ruchita Textile in Krishna Raj Gali, Mulji Jetha Market, has wholesaled fabrics since 1997.