[4] The group’s vertical subsidiaries include packaged processed foods manufacturing, marketing, and distribution.
[6] Rajmohan Pillai formed the Beta Group as a conglomerate of nine companies in memory of his eldest brother, Kerala businessman Rajan Pillai, former chairman of Britannia Industries, whose death in 1995 closed what The Economic Times referred to as one of India's most dramatic corporate sagas.
[2] Today, while still essentially a cashew products company, the Beta Group has diversified into fruit drinks, almonds, dates, and pistachios.
The Rajan Pillai Foundation institutes and presents awards to accomplished individuals in international relations, social welfare services, and industry development.
[15] In 2006, he was awarded a doctorate in business management by the New Age International University of Seborga, Italy,[7] (a diploma mill unlicensed by any Italian or European authority which is an offshoot of the Institute of Education, Research & Development, Kolkata) for a thesis that chronicled the history of the global cashew industry.