Portfolio

Diversified across core economic sectors

India

1976

Active

Essar Shipping is one of India’s largest private sector shipping company, owning & operating marine assets for more than four decades. The company is engaged in deploying its assets in the spot markets, COA’s (Contracts of Affreightment) and long-term contracts. The business has also invested in sustainable technologies like paperless navigation, fitting scrubbers on-board to make vessel emissions IMO compliant, and Green Passports. It is also the first and only Indian shipping company to be certified by American Bureau of Shipping for compliance with the ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2004 and OHSAS 18001:2007 standards for its operation of its bulk carriers and tankers.

The Company also operates an oil & gas drilling business that provides contract drilling services to oil & gas companies across the globe. This business owns a fleet of land and offshore rigs.

India

Active

OGD Services Limited (f.k.a. Essar Oilfield Services India Limited) is a contract drilling services provider for Oil & Gas drilling, including Coal Bed Methane (CBM). With an international presence, it provides customized drilling solutions to an esteemed list of clients that include international oil majors, PSU’s and private players.

The company owns and operates a diversified fleet of 15 Land Rigs with capacities ranging from 250 HP to 2000 HP. OGD’s Schramm Land Rig (MR #09), with a capacity of 750 HP, has set new benchmarks in the industry by drilling the deepest Horizontal C multilateral CBM Well in India. In addition, the Rig successfully drilled the first CBM well in India (referred to as the Reach Well) that adjoins another well (referred to as the Offset Well) horizontally (both these wells are 1 KM apart) to optimise production. OGD’s Schramm Land Rig (MR #11), with a capacity of 750 HP, has set new performance benchmarks for the industry by drilling a record of four wells in one month (with depths of 1400m, 900m, 1140m and 1040m respectively), achieving an unprecedented commercial speed among drilling Rigs.

OGD also operates Essar Wildcat, a semi-submersible rig which is known among drilling contractors for its performance and exceptional safety record, having achieved more than 11 years of nil Loss Time Incident (LTI) in 2019. The Essar Wildcat was recently recognised by Halliburton for “Best Performance in Tripping Circulation (Deep water)”.

OGD places high focus on quality, health, safety and environment, and is an ISO certified company (OHSAS: 18001:2007), (ISO: 9001:2015) & (ISO: 14001:2015). It has also been admitted as a ‘Member in Good Standing’ of the South Central Asia Chapter of International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC).

30+ Countries

2010

Active

Black Box Limited (BBOX) (Formerly AGC Networks Limited) is a trusted IT solutions provider delivering cutting-edge technology solutions and world-class consulting services to businesses around the globe.

We accelerate business outcomes with differentiated Global Solutions across Customer Experience, Cyber Security, Connected Buildings, Data Centers, Digital Workplace, Enterprise Networking and In-Building 5G/OnGo.

Our Technology Products help customers drive innovation through human-centric technology solutions and Xcelerate Services provide them with a range of flexibility, the latest digital technologies, and cost-effective solutions that drive innovation.

Black Box is a strong player in the North American and European markets while being dominant in the Enterprise Communications space in India. A 3,500+ strong team base serves clients worldwide through an expanded offerings portfolio and an extended geographical reach across 35+ countries including Latin America and APAC region.

In collaboration with global technology leaders like Avaya, Aruba, Cisco, Commscope, Corning, Extreme, Fortinet, Genesys, HPE, Juniper, Mitel, Nutanix, Palo Alto, Poly, Trend Micro, UiPath and Verint among others, Black Box delivers domain-focused, flexible and customized technology solutions and seamless services that accelerate customers’ business and ensures Return on Technology Investments (ROTI).

150+ clients

2015

Active

LitmusWorld is India’s leading Experience Management Solution provider that helps mid to large enterprise improve customer and employee experience to positively impact the bottom-line growth. LitmusWorld’s ability to bring about absolute transparency in business process outcomes through the consumer lens, has led to over 150 global brands trust the award winning platform managing over 36 million conversations on a monthly basis!

Customers build great products and Employees build great companies. LitmusWorld helps in bringing the two stakeholders together to create a great brand. The platform delivers actionable insights across touchpoints to Measure, Act & Improve on the overall experience, thereby creating loyal and delighted customers.

Known for lifting the heavy load, LitmusWorld has established itself as the market leaders with its completely assisted solution design and project success model. LitmusWorld’s industry agnostic expertise and simplicity of the tool has resulted in dramatic improvements in business processes that have helped enterprises improve customer centricity and customer loyalty.

The aim is to enable businesses become more agile and profitable- 1 touchpoint, 1 conversation, 1 stakeholder, at a time.

India

Active

Pluckk is Essar’s investment in a digitally integrated platform selling fresh fruits & vegetables, which is targeting to be a preferred brand in a US$ 300 billion market. As a digital e-commerce platform, Pluckk is serving Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore currently, and plans to expand to the top 15 cities in India. Delivering farm-to-fork supply chain in a 24-hour model, a huge scope of penetrating the fastest growing industry lies ahead for the business. By building a digital platform for supporting healthy lifestyle patterns, Pluckk would be changing demand dynamics and would be fuelling growth. Ozone-washed, traceable & hand-picked, the company provides assortments that are high quality and customers-curated.

Targeting a strong position in the changing Fruit & Vegetable (F&V) industry

  • Digitally integrated model delivering fresh produce that are safe & high on nutrition
  • Building Pluckk as a preferred brand in US$ 300-bn market in India, growing at 60% CAGR
  • Online grocery market is US$ 4 bn, and is growing at 47% CAGR. It will grow 10X to US$ 4 bn in next 7 years
  • Mission to connect a million households, with a network of 100,000+ farmers
  • Envisaging ~US$ 100 +mn revenues & a valuation of US$ 600 mn by FY24
  • Leading brand distributed through own platform as well as partners like Amazon, Dunzo, Swiggy, Zepto and Blinkit,
  • Only FnV brand to be certified ‘Plastic Neutral’ in India