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| equity = US$ 6.6818 Billion (2013)〔 | num_employees = 84,027 (Mar 2014)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Annual Report 2012-13 )〕 | parent = | divisions = Technology, engineering, construction, manufacturing | subsid = L&T Infotech, L&T Mutual Fund, |L&T Infrastructure Finance Company, L&T Finance Holdings, L&T Technology Services, L&T MHPS | caption = It's all about Imagineering | homepage = | footnotes = | intl = Yes }} Larsen & Toubro Limited, also known as L&T, is an Indian multinational conglomerate headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.〔(Larsen & Toubro Ltd 171109.pdf )〕 It was founded by Danish engineers taking refuge in India, as well as an Indian financing partner. The company has business interests in engineering, construction, manufacturing goods, information technology, and financial services, and also has an office in the Middle East and other parts of Asia.〔 L&T is India's largest engineering and construction company. Considered to be the "bellwether of India's engineering & construction sector",〔 L&T was recognized as the Company of the Year in Economic Times 2010 awards. ==History== Pre–independence: A company was founded in Bombay (Mumbai) in 1938 (British India) by two Danish engineers, Henning Holck-Larsen and Soren Kristian Toubro. The company began as a representative of Danish manufacturers of dairy equipment. However, with the start of the Second World War in 1939 and the resulting restriction on imports, the partners started a small workshop to undertake jobs and provide service facilities.〔 Germany's invasion of Denmark in 1940 stopped supplies of Danish products.〔 The war-time need to repair and refit ships offered L&T an opportunity, and led to the formation of a new company, Hilda Ltd., to handle these operations.〔 L&T also started to repair and fabricate ships signalling the expansion of the company.〔 The sudden internment of German engineers in British India (due to suspicions caused by the War), who were to put up a soda ash plant for the Tatas, gave L&T a chance to enter the field of installation.〔 In 1944, ECC was incorporated by the partners; the company at this time was focused on construction projects (Presently, ECC is the construction division of L&T). L&T decided to build a portfolio of foreign collaborations. By 1945, the company represented British manufacturers of equipment used to manufacture products such as hydrogenated oils, biscuits, soaps and glass.〔 In 1945, the company signed an agreement with Caterpillar Tractor Company, USA, for marketing earth moving equipment. At the end of the war, large numbers of war-surplus Caterpillar equipment were available at attractive prices, but the finances required were beyond the capacity of the partners. This prompted them to raise additional equity capital, and on 7 February 1946, Larsen & Toubro Private Limited was incorporated.〔 Post–independence: Offices were set up in Kolkata (Calcutta), Chennai (Madras) and New Delhi. In 1948, fifty-five acres of undeveloped marsh and jungle was acquired in Powai, Mumbai. That uninhabitable swamp subsequently became the site of its main manufacturing hub.〔 In December 1950, L&T became a public company with a paid-up capital of Rs. 20 lakhs (2 million rupees) (2,000,000). The sales turnover in that year was Rs. 1.09 crore (10.9 million rupees).〔 In 1956, a major part of the company's Mumbai office moved to ICI House in Ballard Estate, Mumbai; which would later be purchased by the company and renamed as L&T House, its present corporate office.〔 The sixties witnessed the formation of many new ventures: UTMAL (set up in 1960), Audco India Limited (1961), Eutectic Welding Alloys (1962) and TENGL (1963).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Larsen & Toubro」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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