Emami Ltd, the flagship company of the Group, is a leading player in the personal and healthcare consumer products industry in India. The company is engaged in manufacturing and marketing of health, beauty and personal care products that are based entirely on ayurvedic formulation. The company has over 30 brands under their portfolio. _x000D_ _x000D_ The company's product categories consists hair care, skin creams, soaps and lotions, talcum powder and ayurvedic healthcare products. Their product portfolio include Navratna Oil, Boroplus Antiseptic Cream, Fair and Handsome, Navratna Cool Talc, Sona Chandi Chyawanprash, Zandu Balm, Himani Fast Relief, Emami Healthy & Fair, Emami Malai Kesar Cold Cream, Lalima, Sardi Ja and Zandu Pancharishta. _x000D_ _x000D_ The company has ultra modern manufacturing facilities at Kolkata (West Bengal), Guwahati (Assam), Pantnagar (Uttarakhand), Vapi (Gujarat), Silvassa (Dadra & Nagar Haveli) and Talasari (Maharashtra). They have adopted the Total Quality Management system and all their manufacturing facilities have received cGMP and ISO 9001:2000 certifications. The company has a network of over 425,000 retail outlets, 2,800 distributors, 1,500 sub-distributors, 30 depots and six regional sales offices. They are present in over 2.6 million Indian retail outlets and 65 countries._x000D_ _x000D_ Emami Ltd was incorporated on March 11, 1983 with the name AMP Udyog Viniyog Ltd. Initially, R S Agarwal and R S Goenka set up a cosmetic manufacturing unit in Kolkata in 1974 under the name of Kemco Chemicals, a partnership firm. The cosmetic products, as well as Ayurvedic medicines, manufactured by the unit were marketed under the brand name of Emami. In the year 1978, Himani Ltd, a sick unit, was taken over by the Group and the new management decided to produce different types of health care items and toiletries with Ayurvedic preparation._x000D_ _x000D_ In the year 1994, Himani Ltd was then merged with AMP Udyog Viniyog Ltd and the name was changed to Himani Ltd with effect from May 5, 1994. In the year 1995, Kemco Chemicals, the partnership firm was converted into a public limited company under the name and style of Emami Ltd with effect from April 1, 1995. In the year 1998, Emami Ltd was then merged with Himani Ltd and the name was changed to Emami Ltd with effect from September 1, 1998._x000D_ _x000D_ In the year 2000, the company's investment undertaking was de-merged into Pan Emami Cosmed Ltd with a view to concentrate on their core FMCG business. In the year 2003, the company set up a new unit at Amingaon, Guwahati. Also, they obtained the certificate of Good Manufacturing Practices for its Pondicherry Units. _x000D_ _x000D_ During the year 2005-06, the company started a third party manufacturing unit in Baddi in Himachal Pradesh. They set up a wholly owned subsidiary company, namely Emami International FZE, in UAE, to expand their foreign market. In response to the marketplace reality, the company launched 'Navratna' cool talc, an extension of its hugely popular 'cool' oil brand_x000D_ _x000D_ During the year 2006-07, the company launched Fair and Handsome Fairness Cream for men, Fair & Ageless Fairness Cream, Boroplus Antiseptic Light Cream and Body Lotion and Mr. Black and Mrs. Black, herbal Hair Dye Powder and Malai Kesar Cold Cream in the personal care segment. Also, they launched Sona Chandi Healthy and Fair Baby Massage Oil, Good Morning, an Ayurvedic laxative Churna, Sardi Ja, a cough syrup and Vaporub and Memo-plus, a memory booster, Sanjeevan Dhara - a digestive in the market._x000D_ _x000D_ During the year, as per the scheme of amalgamation, JB Marketing & Finance Ltd, the erstwhile marketing company of the Emami Group was amalgamated with the company. The equity shares of the company were listed on the National Stock Exchange Ltd. In May 2007, the company formed a wholly owned subsidiary company namely, Emami Realty Pvt Ltd. The company ventured into the realty business through this wholly owned subsidiary company._x000D_ _x000D_ In November 2008, the company acquired 68.9% stake in Zandu Pharmaceutical Works Ltd at a consideration of Rs 713 crore and de-merged Zandu's FMCG business into the company. Simultaneously, real estate undertaking of the company comprising of their interest into Emami Realty Ltd and Zandu's non-core business comprising real estate was de-merged into Emami Infrastructure Ltd with effect from November 05, 2008._x000D_ _x000D_ During the year 2009-10, the company launched new products namely, Boroplus Winter Lotion and Emami Malai Kesar Soap in the market. Also, they launched new product variants, Navratna Oil. They introduced Zandu Balm in a new bicolour plastic container. They opened a new depot in Coimbatore to widen South India sales. Also, they commenced operations in Bangladesh._x000D_ _x000D_ The company plans to set up a new newsprint facility at Orissa at an investment of Rs 5 billion and will be set up by Emami Paper Mills Ltd, a group firm. Also, they plan to set up 200 to 300 mega watt power plant in Ethiopia with an investment of Rs 10 billion Rs 15 billion and the plant could be a hydro or a thermal power plant._x000D_