Corporate Partners

Citicorp Financial works tirelessly to provide consumers, corporations, Government and institutions with a broad range of financial services and products. They strive to create the best outcomes for their clients and customers with financial ingenuity that leads to solutions that are simple, creative and responsible. Citi’s mission is to serve as a trusted partner to their clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress. Their core activities include safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments and accessing the capital markets on behalf of their clients. Citicorp financial supports over 9000 school students in Thane.

CLP India is one of the largest foreign investors in the Indian Power sector with investments in conventional and renewable power generation. The company has one of the most diverse portfolios including a Gas fired Plant in Gujarat, a Coal fired plant in Haryana, Wind and Solar farms across seven States. CLP India invests in the development of communities around its plants with a special focus on – Health & sanitation; education & skill building, and creating infrastructures. CLP India has partnered with The Akshaya Patra Foundation to sponsor meals for 5,000 children at Hubli, Karnataka and has sponsored a kitchen in Mahbubnagar, Telangana. CLP India has also committed to sponsor 10,000 meals for three academic years starting 2019-20.

CME Group Inc. is a global markets company. It is the world’s largest financial derivatives exchange, and trades in asset classes that include agricultural products, currencies, energy, interest rates, metals, and stock indexes. The company offers futures contracts and options on futures using its CME Globex trading platforms, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform. In addition, it operates a central counterparty clearing provider, CME Clearing. With a range of pre- and post-trade products and services underpinning the entire lifecycle of a trade, CME Group also offers optimization and reconciliation services through TriOptima, and trade processing services through Traiana. CME Group takes great pride in supporting a variety of philanthropic causes through charitable grants from the CME Group Foundation and our matching gift program. CME Group Foundation strives to empower future generations through education, equipping today’s students to meet tomorrow’s challenges. CME Group believes that part of being a good corporate citizen means giving back to our community, on this context they have taken several projects for community development like. As a global corporate citizen, CME Group works to expand charitable footprint around the world and positively impact the communities. Their global corporate citizenship initiatives include hosting fundraising events, making donations, and volunteering time to benefit charitable organizations that support those in need. The organization has supported Akshaya Patra since 2018 and have helped serve hot and nutritious mid-day meals to 2000 plus children of Government and aided schools. They been supporting to provide meals to specially abled children and daily laborers children as well in the past year.

Credit Suisse is a leading company in investment banking sector and has its strong presence in the home market of Switzerland. We seek to follow a balanced approach to wealth management, aiming to capitalize on both the large pool of wealth within mature markets as well as the significant growth of wealth in Asia Pacific and other emerging markets. Founded in 1856, we today have a global reach with operations in about 50 countries and 46,840 employees from over 170 different nations. In 2018-19, Credit Suisse partnered with The Akshaya Patra Foundation and sponsored Akshaya Patra mid-day meals for 8,145 children of Government-aided schools in Bellary and Nathdwara. To uplift the noble cause, they have also sponsored for building a kitchen to feed 25,000 school going children in Jorhat, Assam.

“Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Limited is one of the leading consumer companies in India with over 75 years old brand legacy. They operate across various segments – LED Lighting, Fans, Pumps, Water Heaters, Air Coolers and Small Domestic Appliances. With a revenue of over INR 45bn and 10,000+ SKUs to choose from, Crompton is a household name in India. The brand has a rich legacy associated with great quality, reliability, superior engineering capability and product design. It also resonates with an immense amount of trust. Over the last few years, they have launched some breakthrough products like India’s first anti-dust fan and anti-bacterial LED bulb. Their CSR programme, UJJVAL DEEP, is designed to address some major concerns in society today – employment, environment, empowerment and engagement. Crompton has focussed on communities living in the vicinity of their manufacturing and processing facilities. Crompton began its collaboration with Akshaya Patra in October 2019 and has been providing mid-day meals for over 7,000 children across 41 Government schools close to their manufacturing facility in Padra near Vadodara, Gujarat. They also plunged into the COVID-19 efforts by providing 90,000 hot and nutritious meals to affected communities across Vadodara. Crompton’s employees have also actively engaged with underserved communities through various volunteering initiatives”

Pursuant to direction from Government of Gujarat for reorganization of the power sector in the state, Gujarat Electricity Board has been unbundled into separate seven Companies with functional responsibilities for generation, transmission, distribution and trading of electricity with complete autonomous operations. Accordingly, the distribution undertakings and functions of the Southern Distribution Zone of the erstwhile GEB stand transferred to and vest in Dakshin Gujrat Vij Company Limited.The company was incorporated as a Public Limited Company on 15th September, 2003, primarily to carry out distribution of electricity to retail and bulk consumers and has become operational effective from 1st April 2005. The Company is engaged in distribution of electricity in 7 districts namely Bharuch, Narmada, Surat (except part of Surat City), Tapi, Dangs, Navsari and Valsad in South Gujarat. The Company is a wholly owned subsidiary Company of Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited, a government Company.

Deutsche Bank is a German multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany. The bank is operational in 58 countries with a large presence in Europe, America and Asia. As of April 2018, Deutsche Bank is the 15th largest bank in the world by total assets. The company is a universal bank resting on three pillars – the Private & Commercial Bank, the Corporate & Investment Bank and Asset Management. Deutsche Bank is one of the esteemed donors of The Akshaya Patra Foundation and is currently sponsoring 62,000 children across Bangalore, Ajmer, Jaipur, Surat and Ahmedabad locations.

Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited has been providing easy access to affordable Housing Finance to realize home-ownership aspirations of millions of lower and middle income families in semi-urban and rural India. DHFL was established in 1984 with the goal of transforming the lives of Indian households by enabling access to home ownership through the inception of DHFL. DHFL has been an esteemed donor of Akshaya Patra and has sponsored mid-day meals for around 20,000 children in Guwahati located in the north-eastern state of Assam.

When Adrian Dalsey, Larry Hillblom and Robert Lynn founded DHL in 1969, they didn’t know they would revolutionize the world of logistics. Today DHL is the world’s leading logistics company. They have over 360,000 people in over 220 countries and territories that work every day to cross borders, reach new markets and grow the business. DHL is supporting The Akshaya Patra Foundation by sponsoring mid-day meals to 7,211 children in Bangalore, Jaipur, Surat and Ahmedabad locations.