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Sesa Goa

Vedanta Limited
Public Limited
Traded as
SESAGOA
SSLT
BSE SENSEX Constituent
Industry Mining
Founded 1954
Headquarters New Delhi - India
Key people
Anil Agarwal
(Chairman Emeritus)
Navin Agarwal
(Chairman)
Tom Albanese
(Chief Executive Officer)
D.D. Jalan
(CFO)
Products Zinc, Lead Oil and Gas, Iron ore, Aluminium, Copper, Gold and Silver
Revenue Increase639.31 billion (US$9.5 billion) (2016)
Increase158.29 billion (US$2.4 billion) (2016)
Number of employees
Approx. 4,100 (2010)
Website www.vedantalimited.com

Vedanta Limited, formerly known as Sesa Sterlite/Sesa Goa Limited, a Vedanta Group company is one of the world's largest global diversified natural resource majors, with operations across zinc-lead-silver, oil & gas, iron ore, copper, aluminium and commercial power.

For more than five decades, it has been engaged in exploration, mining and processing of iron ore. The company was founded in 1954, as Scambi Economici SA Goa. Since then, it has grown to be one among the top low-cost producers of iron ore in the world. During 1991–1995, it diversified into the manufacture of pig iron and metallurgical coke. It has also developed indigenous and environment-friendly technology for producing high quality metallurgical coke.

In 2007, it became a majority-owned subsidiary of Vedanta Resources Plc, listed on the , when Vedanta acquired 51% controlling stake from Mitsui & Co., Ltd. In June 2009, Sesa Goa Limited acquired VS Dempo & Co. Private Limited (now Sesa Resources Limited) along with its fully owned subsidiary Dempo Mining Corporation (now Vedanta Limited) and 50% equity in Goa Maritime Private Limited. In 2010, Vedanta acquired the zinc assets of British miner Anglo American plc.

In 2011 Vedanta Resources bought 58.5% controlling stake in Cairn India, India's largest private sector oil & gas company. The company acquired 51% stake in Western Cluster Limited, Liberia in the same year and then went on to takeover the remaining 49% share in WCL from Elenilto Minerals & Mining LLC. In 2013, Sterlite Industries and Sesa Goa announced their merger and finally merged into a single entity in August, 2013. In 2015, Sesa Sterlite changed its name to Vedanta Limited.

Sesa Goa Limited’s operations are located predominantly in Goa and Karnataka, with offices in various locations across India. Its head office in India is in Panaji, Goa, while its Liberia office is in Monrovia and China office is in Shanghai.


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