Introduction
P
N C Menon – Mr. P. N. C. Menon is the founder of the Shobha Group of
companies. A first generation
entrepreneur, hailing from Thrissur in Kerala.
He is a non-residential Oman based businessman. He founded Shobha Developers in Bangalore in
1995. He has since incorporated several
companies in the Sultanate of Oman, United Arab Emirates and Qatar and also
expanded into construction and real estate development, 1500 crore Shobha Developers
Ltd. is one of the few dollar-billionaires in India. For the last two years he has been listed in
the Forbes list of billionaires. P. N.
C. Menon set up his empire in the Sultanate of Oman with just Rs. 50 in hand. Through sheer hard work and some wise
decision, he has become one of the most successful businessmen from India. Today, his company has a presence in India,
Dubai, and Oman. Today, more than 4,000
people are directly employed by Menon, in addition to the thousands more
involved in the construction of his buildings.
Personal Life
He was from an
agricultural family in Palghat in Kerala. His father was running a small business in
Thrissur. He grew up there. He lost his father when he was 10 years of age. His childhood was unfortunate, not a happy
one at all. He did not complete his
graduation; and dropped out from college. As he was from a business family, he was not
willing to do work under others. So he
started his own interior decoration business without completing his
education. Later he met an Arab who
invited to do business in Oman. He
married to Shobha and has two daughters Bindu and Revathi and one son Ravi
Menon.
Social Responsibilities
His social responsibility
is greater than any other entrepreneur in India, because he is doing his
charity work (He dislikes the word charity and favour became all these works
considered as his duties). His social work
goes to the villages that he uplift the people from poverty line. He is being feeding the poor and the elderly
two times a day for the last 25 years. Recently
he decided that his charity work will be the place where he was born, the
Kizhakkancherry Panchayat in Palghat district. He found that there were 3,000 families living
below the poverty line.
So, he focused is on these
3,000 families, the education of their children, their health conditions, their
housing, water, sanitation, and, finally, their employment. He put a time target of 8-10 years for the socio-economic
empowerment of these 3,000 families. About
12,000 people will benefit from this.
Working hard and with Confidence
He started his work in
Oman. Initially it was tough, but he
worked hard, really hard. Finally he
could win over the entire negative he faced.
Five things were against him:
v
He was not professionally qualified.
v
He did not have sufficient capital.
v
He started work in a new geographical environment.
v
He didn’t have sufficient contacts.
v His
communication skills were poor as he had studied in a Malayalam medium.
And although he had all the negatives
stacked against him, his confidence land was high. The ability to understand
was very high. He never settled for anything less than perfect. Finally he succeeded game.
Awards and Recognition
v CNBC
Best executed project Award.
v Really
plus excellence Awards 2011
v PNC. Menon declared “Business Man of
2013”. The award were declared by PP
Suresh.
v Life-time Achiever’s Award in 2006
society interiors magazine for his contribution to real estate and contribution
to industry.
v Global India Splendor Award in 2007.
v He was also awarded the prestigious
Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Puruskar by President of India.
Sobha Group
Sobha Group established in 1976, a first generation
Indian business man T.N.C. Menon as an interior decoration firm under the name
and service and trade company in Musket.
The group has grown into one of the most respected names in all the
countries in which it has established business.
Sobha Group-Business Areas
v Civil
Constructing
v Real
Estate
v Electro-Mechanical
Building Services
v Metal
working/Facrade Engineering
v Interior/Joinery
v Manufacturing
of construction materials
v Software
Developments
v Architectural
Engineering Consultancy
Conclusion
P.N.C.
Menon was an ordinary man make bact a “Practical Man”. He is a MALLU, originally from Thrissur
District of Kerala. He started his
business in simple way, his hard work, honesty, power etc. help him to create
“Sobha Group” a listed company in the world.
P.N.C. Menon says that “You can think of a junk work of 15 days and a
quality work of 1 day.” The quality work
will give more satisfaction and yield motivation from social. He take care of his employee very well and
focused on quality. The building
contribution features, the concentrate on minute aspects of quality. This is the top character from P.N.C. Menon. He followed a disciplined lifestyle. He ensures a good health required to empower
the mind and soul. P.N.C. Menon don’t
spend time preaching Gods. It means that
if God is life savior, P.N.C. Menon is saving a lot of poor’s life. So he can be called as God.
P.N.C. Menon is one of the most motivational character in
our life. His hard work, lifestyle character,
disciplines etc. help to every student to achieve best in future life.
References
1. Sobha
Group founder P.N.C. Menon to give 50% of tune to charity Report (The Economic
Times retrieved 2013-6-4.
2. “A
career built brick by brick” (mint.com retrieved 2013-06-04)
3. “News
maker P.N.C. Menon” (Business standard retrieved 2013-06-04)
4. “Indian
power list 2011” (Arabian Business retrieved 2011-11-08)
5.
“A career built by brick” (Livemint retrieved
2011-11-08)
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