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Zee fell nearly 33% in one day in January 2019. About 60% of the promoter's 39% stake was pledged to lenders. By late 2019 it was around 90%.

How pledging works: https://t.co/nMvouFkcwU

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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw started Biocon in 1978 with ₹10,000 and a rented garage in Bangalore. She was 25. The banks kept shutting the door.

In FY26 Biocon's revenue from operations was ₹16,927 crore.

https://t.co/6PzZsyb9Ga

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Under 10% of India's hair oil market, by the company's own estimate.

Yet Bajaj Consumer Care crossed ₹1,000 crore in revenue for the first time in FY26. Sales had grown about 1.5% a year for the ten years before.

https://t.co/6Aoaiy0JOT

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Symphony filed for bankruptcy in 2001. Its stock was a penny stock.

Today it holds roughly 50% of India's organised air-cooler market and owns zero cooler factories.

What the founder cut, and what he kept: https://t.co/icl5aeHRHW

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In 1989, Vinod Saraf quit as a CEO at 40 and named his new company after his daughter. He chose two chemicals nobody in India wanted to make.

Today it makes around 65% of the world's ATBS.

https://t.co/sRWeVQh4eD

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Unpaid listing fee. One trading day a week.

NSE's August 11, 2026 circular set out how stocks can be moved to trade-for-trade and limited to the first trading day of each week.

https://t.co/jjIIXQtKJn

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In 1994 he started a small Bengaluru unit making kerosene wick stoves. In 2021 his IPO was subscribed 18.03 times.

Pigeon now drives roughly 90% of Stove Kraft's revenue.

https://t.co/NiEo7konwG

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Zetwerk's IPO is on day 2. Price band ₹143 to ₹151. Lot of 99 shares. Issue size about ₹5,012 crore. Closes 19 Oct.

https://t.co/pmewLRn63X

Not investment advice. Do your own research.

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In 1978, Rajni Bector started baking in her home kitchen in Ludhiana. No formal training, no business plan.

Today her company makes Cremica and English Oven, and supplies bakery products you have likely eaten without knowing who made them.

https://t.co/Z6Nf0e10NE

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About 1 in every 3 laminated toothpaste tubes in the world is made by one Indian company.

Roughly 8 billion tubes a year. Almost none carry its name.

https://t.co/9go9IrQ76u

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Paper shares signed over before 1 April 2019, but never moved into your name?

SEBI's one-year window runs until 4 February 2027. Not everyone with old certificates qualifies.

https://t.co/oTEjKQH8a7

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He quit Oracle in Silicon Valley, backpacked for a year and went home to plant grapes on a Nashik farm that grew roses and mangoes.

India had almost no wine culture in 1999. Sula now holds roughly 65% of the market.

https://t.co/N7Lx4u7dZl

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Your broker is a door, not a vault.

Your shares sit with NSDL or CDSL. Your idle cash does not. Karvy showed the difference in 2019.

https://t.co/uMZ1kXJApg

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Yashovardhan Saboo's company made the dials and hands inside watches. In 2003 he opened one shop in Chandigarh to retail the watches themselves.

By May 2026, Ethos had 100 boutiques across 32 cities.

https://t.co/rIg8Q4zhnd

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Amit Kumat's toy-filled rings flopped in Delhi. He shipped about 100 unsold cartons to Assam with instructions to sell them or throw them away.

Assam did not reject them.

https://t.co/yKycdrRazF

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A nominee is not the owner. Under SEBI's 23 July 2026 circular, the nominee holds the shares as trustee for the legal heirs.

For Rakesh Jhunjhunwala's Star Health shares, transmission completed on 25 June 2026. He died on 14 August 2022.

https://t.co/7Z3mkAWUn6

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He borrowed ₹5,000 from his brother in 1983 and spent a year in his kitchen on a whitener that did not work.

FY25 sales: ₹2,844 crore. Then a licence ended.

https://t.co/MGFYDZELnu

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MRF trades above 1 lakh a share. Its face value is 10.

Face value is an accounting starting point, not a measure of what a share is worth.

https://t.co/NvoZrmKidj

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He failed Class 10. In 2008 he rented a 200 sq m shed in Hyderabad with one second-hand machine to make jet engine parts.

Today Rolls-Royce trusts him.

https://t.co/qc7rH98NlC

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He failed Class 10 and dropped out of school.

In 2008 he rented a 200 sq m shed in Hyderabad with one second-hand machine and decided to make parts for jet engines.

Today Rolls-Royce trusts him.

https://t.co/qc7rH98NlC