Forbes & Company Limited, the erstwhile Forbes Gokak Limited, is an Indian engineering, shipping and logistics company based in Mumbai.

[2] Over the years, the management of the company moved from the Forbes family to the Campbells, to the Tata Group, and finally to the Shapoorji Pallonji Group.

It is one of the oldest companies of India and has been listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange since 1919.

[3] Born in 1743, John Forbes set sail to India in 1764 on board the ship Asia as a purser on the East India Company's service.

After three years as a 'free mariner' and later 'free merchant', he established a business to trade Indian cotton.