10 Big Rivalries In Business


Bangalore: As the saying goes, competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people. Since power and success came into existence, rivalries have also become an inseparable part of power and success. In ancient times there were rivalries amongst kings and warriors and the History has few of the grates scars that dine great rivalries.

Still today nothing much has changed, only the Kings and warriors have been replaced by few of the big corporate honchos. Competition between two companies can lead to various innovations and help them in expanding their product range. The competition gets higher when two brands have a fight over a same price, same products and with similar strategies. Customers are the ones who will benefited through the business rival.

Let’s have a look at some of the biggest business rivals as reported by rediff.com.

1. Ambani vs Wadias

The two big names in the corporate world, Wadias were considered as the textile kings before even Ambani stepped in the world of business. Tremendous hard work and hunger for success made Ambani became the powerful business magnet, which even increased the number of rivals against him. The war between the two triggered in early 1970s and 1980s when both of them aimed at the Sunrise industry of polyester for their individual growth as reported by R Jagannathan in FirstPost.Business. Both the rivals had their own business strategies. While Wadias were the first to come up with the idea of Dimethyl terepthalate (DMT) plant Ambani became competitive by building his purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant.

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