Background
Rajmohan Pillai was born in Kollam, Kerala, South India, and educated in the state capital Trivandrum.
Businessman Chairman of Beta Group
Rajmohan Pillai was born in Kollam, Kerala, South India, and educated in the state capital Trivandrum.
He gained management experience within the family business from 1981. is a diversified transnational business group with $2 billion turnover. The group’s vertical subsidiaries include packaged processed foods manufacturing, marketing and distribution. The Group also claims interests in entertainment, logistics and business consulting.
The group began in the early 1900s as Beta Industries, an exporter of cashew nuts.
The company is based in the Netherlands. lieutenant is one of the world"s largest cashew nut companies.
Today, while still essentially a cashew products company, the has diversified into fruit drinks, almonds, dates and pistachios. The group owns the dry fruit and nut brands Nut King and Ole.
Pillai"s management Pillai"s previous declared intentions for the group have included: waging a "cashew-nut war", matching the price of potato chips marketed by multinational companies in India (2000) entering the pharmaceutical and hospitality sectors (2006) purchasing the Barista Coffee chain (2006) (it was purchased instead by Lavazza) diversification including a $200 million desalination plant in Tamil Nadu (2006) opening an aviation academy in Malaysia (2007) The Foundation conducts research and development in the fields of cashew and other horticultural crops.
Rajmohan Pillai, as Doctor of Medicine of Pace International Limited, was one of four men convicted of fraud over a letter of cr in 2008. He was sentenced to two years" imprisonment and fined Rs 200,000, but appealed the conviction and the sentences have been suspended until the appeal is resolved.