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Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia (1702–1774) was a Parsi from Surat province of Gujarat in India and was a member of the Wadia family of shipwrights and naval architects, who founded Wadia Group in 1736. Lovji Wadia secured contracts with the British East India Company to build ships and docks in Bombay in 1736.
Feb 14, 2024 · The Wadia Group was founded by Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia in 1736, when he opened a Marine Construction company that built ships for the British. He was one of India’s first master shipbuilders and a pioneer of the global ship building industry.
Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia advanced the Wadia shipbuilding dynasty in 1736, when he obtained a contract from the British East India Company for building docks and ships in Bombay (present-day Mumbai).
There, Nusserwanji Maneckji Wadia (1753-1814), grandson of the great shipbuilder Lovji Wadia, founded a family business specializing in the markets of these newcomers to Bombay.
Wadia Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate, founded in Surat, headquartered in Mumbai. It was founded by Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia in 1736 and is the oldest company in India, with its subsidiary The Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation Limited, established in 1863, being the oldest publicly traded Indian company. [3]
Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia was a Parsi from Surat province of Gujarat in India and was a member of the Wadia family of shipwrights and naval architects, who founded Wadia Group in 1736.
Aug 15, 2014 · The group’s journey began in 1736 when Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia set up a marine construction company, which went on to build 355 ships including the first ships constructed for the British navy...
