Amalgamations Group

The Amalgamations Group, formerly called Simpson Group, is an Indian business conglomerate based in Chennai which has several business interests in Manufacturing Tractors, Automobile ancillaries, Plantation, Trading and services.

[1] The most notable being the Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited, Simpsons & Company, Bimetal Bearings, India Pistons, T. Stanes & Co, Amco Batteries, Higginbotham's and Addisons Paint.

[2][3] The Amalgamations Group was established by S. Anantharamakrishnan[4] who during the early 1940s was a Director at Simpsons & Co.

In 1945, he took over the management and later consolidated several British owned companies with interests in plantation, engineering, trading and services.

[5][6] According to popular Chennai-based historian S. Muthiah, the successful takeover was the result of an overheard conversation at a Hotel Connemara.