Gaurav Burman is a Director of Dabur International and a 5th generation member of the family that founded Dabur over 135 years ago. Dabur has today grown to become the largest Indian FMCG company and manufactures a range of over 400 products in Health Care, Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Packaged Foods, and Fruit juices. Dabur became a listed business in 1995, and today has a market capitalization of around US$ 8 billion.
In 1996, Gaurav and his family started to invest in new businesses and today the Burman family have investments in Health Care, Media, Financial Services, Retail, and Education, and have multiple joint ventures with Global Fortune 100 businesses including Aviva for Life Insurance, Espirito Santo for Banking, Bongrain for dairy products, and previously with Fidelity and ABN Amro.
Gaurav manages his family’s investment program, which has an investment portfolio with a value of more than US$1 billion and has been responsible for many of these joint ventures and investments.
Gaurav developed interest in Hospitality sector and has in recent past done multiple investments in the sector. Some of his investments include The Albion Pub, IL Mulino, Tossed, Elephant Taverns and Burman Hospitality which is the sole franchisee of Taco Bell India.