Beginning as a dealer for automobile, trucks and auto-parts in Madras in the 1920s, Rane has grown to encompass ten different companies as of 2013.

[1] According to The Automotive Horizon the company has "dominat[ed] the domestic [Indian] auto component space" for "decades".

[2] In 2020 the group had manufacturing facilities in Chennai, Puducherry, Hyderabad, Mysore, Tumkur, Pantnagar, Bawal, Trichy, Sanand.

[2] Group chairman L. Ganesh was quoted as saying: "We think the time has come to look beyond India, to see if there is more space to grow, and, if it makes sense to manufacture there as well.

[6] Moneycontrol.com ran a video story about "succession planning" in the Rane Group, and how "dynastic rules" are accepted in Indian business while they are opposed in politics.