Shapoorji pallonji cyrus mistry biography
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Shapoorji pallonji cyrus mistry biography
Pallonji Mistry
Indian-born Irish billionaire businessman (1929–2022)
Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry (1 June 1929 – 28 June 2022) was an Indian-born Irish billionaire businessman. He was chairman of the Shapoorji Pallonji Group and a major shareholder of India's largest private conglomerate, Tata Group.
Early life
Pallonji Mistry was born to Shapoorji Mistry in Bombay (now Mumbai) on 1 June 1929.[2] He was a member of Parsi community in Bombay.[3]
The Mistrys own a substantial construction company, Shapoorji Pallonji.
Shapoorji, the group patriarch and Pallonji's father, built some of Mumbai's landmarks around the Fort area – the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank, the Grindlays Bank, the Standard Chartered Bank, the State Bank of India and the Reserve Bank of India buildings.[4]
Career
His father first bought shares in Tata Sons in the 1930s, a stake that as of 2011 stood at 18.4%, making Mistry the largest individual shareholder in Tata Son