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The Marie Claire Mother’s Day Gift Guide
February 2016If she’s anything like us she’ll love this printed tea caddy long after its been emptied.
Read MoreLulu Launches Into Luxury Sector With Investment in UK’s East India Company
October 2014Abu Dhabi’s Lulu Group has made its first foray into luxury retail after acquiring a stake in the UK-based East India Company. The investment will help to fund the opening of as many as 15 stores across the Middle East and Asia.
Read MoreEMKE Group Acquires Major Stake in EIC
October 2014EMKE Group managing director M A Yusuffali has acquired a significant stake in London-based East India Company (EIC), the biggest multinational trading company operated in the world at one time.
Read MoreEmpire Strikes Back
October 2014Some companies, like Microsoft, Coca Cola or Google, become a part of our collective heritage, while others help write the history books and actively participate in creating the world we live in today. One such iconic name is the East India Company.
Read MoreEast India Company, Reborn!
August 2014It was four years ago in 2010 that the East India Company made waves across the world. It had been bought by an Indian. Many were surprised. Not just by the fact that it now had an Indian owner, but that it was still in existence.
Read MoreRebirth Of Trader That Unified Global Lifestyle
July 2014Sanjiv Mehta’s East India Company is for anyone with a taste for lost empire.
Read MoreCelebrating 400 years of Anglo-Japanese links
January 2013Four hundred years ago today a British ship sailed for Japanese waters to establish the first contact between the two nations and start a mutually beneficial relationship which prospers to this day.
Read MoreThe Empire Strikes Back
May 2012Interview with Sanjiv Mehta, owner of The East India Company, on national pride, passion and carrying forward a 400 year old legacy.
Read MoreCompany Man
September 2011Mehta is very proud of his shop on Conduit Street. It is called The East India Company. Yes, the same one. In one of history’s ironic twists, a Gujarati man born in Bombay now owns the company that was set up at Leadenhall Street at the end of the 16th century by British traders and merchants who went around the globe looking for a good cuppa and some spices and ended up colonising half the world—including India, the jewel in the crown—before collapsing in 1873.
Read MoreMahindra buys minority stake in East India Company
January 2011Mahindra Group has acquired a minority stake in the East India Company, the global luxury brand owned by Indian origin entrepreneur Sanjiv Mehta who relaunched the company here in August 2010.
Read MoreFame and fortune: I’m Betting on Soaring Gold Price
October 2010The East India Company owner Sanjiv Mehta once made £2.5m in a week trading Russian commodities. The 49-year-old has for the past six years owned the East India Company, a name that has a global resonance.
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