Munjal helped establish numerous medical, educational and infrastructure facilities.Brijmohan Lall Munjal, founder of Hero MotoCorp, dies at 92 New Delhi: Hero MotoCorp patriarch and doyen of Indian two-wheeler industry, Brijmohan Lall Munjal, passed away this evening after a brief illness. He was conferred with the ‘Padma Bhushan’ in 2005 in recognition of his contribution in the field of trade and industry. Munjal led the Hero Group to a number of firsts.Munjal was among the earliest Indian industrialists to effectively implement (Just-in-Time) JIT as well as backward China wholesale light weight electric tricycle integration and is acknowledged as the trend-setter in the area. Another group firm, Hero Cycles, has been the largest manufacturer of bicycles since 1986.Munjal was born in 1923 at Kamalia in present-day Pakistan.
After India’s independence, the Munjal brothers started a small business of manufacturing bicycle components in Ludhiana and went on to build one of the largest business groups in the country. He is survived by three sons and one daughter.Hero MotoCorp is the world’s largest two-wheeler company now for the 14th year in a row. Munjal led the Hero group to form a joint venture with Japan’s Honda in 1984, the joint venture — Hero Honda, went on to become the world’s single-largest motorcycle maker.Amongst his notable contributions to Ludhiana are the Ludhiana Stock Exchange, the Ludhiana Aviation Club, Ludhiana Management Association and the Dayanand Medical College & Hospital, of which he was the Chairman Emeritus, after being its President for over three decades.
Hero Group, which officially came into existence in 1956, had started its activities in the early 1940s as a bicycle- maker run by the four brothers.Beside Hero Group, Munjal held leadership positions in many national associations such as CII, SIAM, AICMA and PHD and had served as a member of the Regional Board of Reserve Bank of India.. The cremation will be done on Monday. Since early days, he ran the organisation with a sharp focus on current asset management, which helped evolve vendor efficiency and zero-inventory management practices at Hero. Munjal passed away at a private hospital in South Delhi, according to family sources. The partnership ended in 2011. He was 92.Munjal had retired from active role and become Chairman Emeritus of the over USD 4-billion group earlier this year and remained on the board of the company as non-executive member
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