Bharti Enterprises owns businesses spanning across telecommunications, manufacturing, insurance, real estate, hospitality.
The group's flagship company, Bharti Airtel, is a telecom service provider with operations in more than 18 countries across Asia, Africa and Europe.
The company manufactures and distributes mobile accessories, IT peripherals, network and enterprise solutions, and landline phones.
It is also a major distributor of IT and telecom products from international brands such as Avaya, Poly, Samsung, Panasonic, Huawei, QSC, Radwin, Ruckus, RAD and Actelis.
The offering was intended to capitalise on the expected demand for cheap computing devices in the world's fastest-growing and second-largest mobile phone market.
[19] The company signed a 50:50 joint venture partnership agreement with British restaurant chain PizzaExpress in 2012, and opened the first outlet in Mumbai later that year.
[20][21][22] in 2018, Gourmet Investments partnered with Sri Lankan restaurant chain Ministry of Crab, owned by cricketers Kumara Sangakara, Mahela Jayawardene and chef Dharshan Munidasa, to launch outlets in India.
[26] In February 2023, Gourmet Investments reportedly signed an agreement with American restaurant chain P. F. Chang's to open outlets in India.
[30] A consortium of the Hinduja Group and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority reportedly entered negotiations to acquire Bharti AXA Life Insurance in December 2021.
[31][32] A 50% stake in OneWeb was acquired in July 2020, being a joint venture with the UK Government for broadband satellite Internet services.
[35] Bharti Enterprises acquired a 25% stake in Emtel which is a Mauritius-based telecommunications company, on 27 April 2015 through its subsidiary, Indian Continent Investment Limited (ICIL).
The other educational initiatives including the – Satya Bharti School, Quality Support and Learning Centre Programs, are currently reaching out to over 350,000 underprivileged children in 16 states.
The company launched Hike Messenger, a freeware, cross-platform instant messaging (IM), Voice over IP (VoIP) application, on 12 December 2012.
[40] Centum Learning was acquired by education technology firm upGrad in a share swap deal in September 2022.
[42] The company sold processed food and beverage products in India and South Asia under the Del Monte brand.
[30] On 21 August 2020, Bharti AXA General Insurance and ICICI Lombard signed a definitive agreement for the latter to acquire the former in an all stock deal.
[53] Headquartered in Gurugram, Haryana, the company was established by Bharti Airtel in July 2007 by spinning-off its mobile towers to a new wholly-owned subsidiary.
Bharti Retail operated a chain of convenience stores, supermarkets and hypermarkets under the brand name Easyday.