Onkar s kanwar biography for kids
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Onkar Kanwar
Indian businessman
Onkar Kanwar (born March 1942)[1] is an Indian businessman, chairman of Apollo Tyres.
Onkar s kanwar biography for kids
He is also the chairman of Artemis Global Life Sciences, PTL Enterprises and Premedium Pharmaceuticals Pvt Ltd.[2]
Early life
Onkar Kanwar is the eldest son of Raunaq Singh (1922-2002), the co-founder of Apollo Tyres, and his first wife.[3][4][5]
Career
After his undergraduate degree in business administration and industrial engineering, Onkar worked as a salesman in Riverside, California working on estimates for different government contracts for about six months.
He then worked for Abbey Etna Machine Company in Perrysburg, Ohio on the shop floor. The president of Etna Company after discussions with the Kanwar family and looking at the perseverance of Onkar invested money to start a new pipe factory in India.[6]
Kanwar has grown Apollo Tyres from a small single-plant Indian company into a mul