Hindustan Unilever Ltd is India's biggest fast moving consumer goods company. It's parent company -- Unilever -- has a 52 per cent stake in the Indian operations.
It was ranked as the best employer in India.
Headquartered in Mumbai, the company employs more than 15,000 people directly and provides indirect employment of more than 50,000 people.
Earlier called Hindustan Lever Ltd, the company was rechristened Hindustan Unilever Ltd in June 2007.
Top executives: Nitin Paranjpe (CEO and managing director), Harish Manwani (chairman).
Employees: Over 65,000 direct and indirect employees.
Maruti Suzuki India is the nation's largest car maker, and enjoys a market share of about 45 per cent in the Indian automobile sector.
Top executive: Shinzo Nakanishi, managing director and CEO.
Employees: About 7,000.
LG Electronics India
LG Electronics is a Korean multinational headquartered in Yeouido, Seoul. It is the parent company of LG Electronics India.
LG is the world's second-largest manufacturer of television sets and third-largest producer of mobile phones.
The study ranked LG Electronics as India's third best employer.
LG India is currently drawing up strategies which will help it become a $10-billion corporation in India by 2015, making it the second largest market after the United States, ahead of even its home market, South Korea.
Bharti Airtel is an Indian telecommunications multinational firm. It has operations in 19 countries across South Asia, Africa and the Channel Islands.
Airtel is the world's fifth largest telecom operator in the world and also India's largest cellular service provider.
Sunil Mittal, chairman of Indian telecom giant Bharti Airtel, is the 9th richest Indian and ranks 87th in the world.
Top Executive: Sunil Bharti Mittal (chairman).
Employees: Over 25,000.
Aditya Birla Group is an Indian multinational headquartered in Mumbai.
The group was ranked as the nation's second best employer.
It has operations spread over 25 countries with interests in metals, cement, fibre, yarn, apparel, chemicals, fertilisers, financial services, telecom, BPO and IT services.
It is a$30 billion conglomerate.
Top executive: Kumar Mangalam Birla (chairman).
Employees (worldwide): 130,600.
NTPC is India's largest power-generating public sector unit, with the government's take in the company at 84.5 per cent.
The power major currently generates 34,194 MW electricity and has plans to ramp up power generation to 75,000 MW over the next six years.
Top executives: Arup Roy Choudhury (chairman and managing director).
Employees: 26,000.
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Wipro
Wipro is India's third largest IT company with headquarters in Bengaluru.
Just recently, the IT major realigned its organisational structure to accelerate growth. Wipro started the process earlier this year by deciding on a single chief executive officer instead of the earlier joint model with an aim of creating a 'simpler organisational structure'.
It appointed an insider, T K Kurien, as CEO of the information technology business from February 1. The company has created six strategic business units from the earlier seven.
These are energy and utility; manufacturing and hi-tech; media and telecom; retail, consumer packaged goods, transportation and government; pharmaceutical, healthcare, life sciences and services (pharma and HLS); and finance solutions, which comprises the banking, securities and insurance divisions.
Top executive: Azim Premji (chairman).
Employees: Over 120,000.
Dr Reddy's Laboratories was founded by Dr K. Anji Reddy in 1984. It is currently India's second largest pharmaceuticals manufacturing company.
Top executives: Anji Reddy (chairman); G V Prasad, CEO.
Employees: About 14,000.
