Sanjeev Gupta
| Sanjeev Kumar Gupta | |
|---|---|
| Born | 27th September 1972 Ludhiana, Punjab |
| Residence | London, UK |
| Other names | SKG |
| Occupation | Founder of Liberty House Group |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Spouse(s) | Nicola Gupta |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) | Parduman K Gupta |
Sanjeev Kumar Gupta is an international businessman and entrepreneur who founded the Liberty House Group at age 20 while studying for his MA in Economics and Management at the University of Cambridge. He is currently the Executive Chairman of Liberty House which has a turnover of nearly $7 billion (2017) and leads the GFG (Gupta Family Group) Alliance (2017 turnover of $9.4 billion). He has been dubbed the man who can save the British steel industry through an innovative approach called GREENSTEEL and has since been working to apply this model of operation to other countries - recently Australia and the USA.
Gupta was born in Ludhiana, Punjab, India and is the third of four children of Parduman K Gupta who founded the SIMEC Group. Both his father and grandfather were industrialists and business men. At age 13 he was enrolled at St Edmund's School, Canterbury, UK. After completing his A-levels he spent 2 years selling bicycles in Turkey before enrolling to study Economics at Trinity College, Cambridge. It is there that in February 1992 he founded the Liberty House Group, today an international industrials and metals group which has global headquarters in London and hubs in Dubai, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Initially, Liberty House traded steel to rice & sugar, FMCG, engineering and other goods as a part of the family business but it soon diversified into specific commodities and brought together the trading business under three categories—steel, chemicals, and agriculture. In 2009, it entered steel making, buying plants in Africa. A year later in 2010, it was in Asia, setting up the regional headquarters in Singapore and a hub in Hong Kong in 2012 to focus on China.
In 2013, Liberty House Group entered the UK through the purchase of Mir Steel UK (previously Aphasteel), a steel mill in Newport, South Wales, stopping it from being shut down. The business was formally re-launched as Liberty Steel Newport in October 2015. In the two and a half years leading up to the re-opening Gupta kept the entire 150 people workforce on half-pay while he tried to get the mothballed site operating again. During this time they did not have to come to work and could take other jobs.Liberty Steel Newport produces hot rolled coil (HRC) for the following industries: construction, automotive, pipes and tubes, structural hollow sections, highway, yellow goods, materials-handling and power.
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