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{{Short description|Indian industrialist}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Ashok Todi
| image = AshokTodi.jpg
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1958|09|17|df=yes}}
| parents = Giridhari Lal Todi
| alma_mater = [[Bhawanipur College]]
| occupation = Industrialist ([[Lux Industries]])
}}

'''Ashok Todi''' (born 1958) is an Indian industrialist, heading the Kolkata-based [[Lux Industries]] group, a Rs. 120-billion plus company which is the market leader in India of the inner wear garment segment.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Lux Industries Share Price, Lux Industries Stock Price, Lux Industries Ltd. Stock Price, Share Price, Live BSE/NSE, Lux Industries Ltd. Bids Offers. Buy/Sell Lux Industries Ltd. news & tips, & F&O Quotes, NSE/BSE Forecast News and Live Quotes|url=https://www.moneycontrol.com/india/stockpricequote/textiles-processing/luxindustries/LHI|access-date=2021-09-13|website=www.moneycontrol.com|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Lux Industries Limited">{{cite web|url=http://www.luxindustrieslimited.com/chairman-ashok-kumar-todi.php |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2013-12-14 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214112928/http://www.luxindustrieslimited.com/chairman-ashok-kumar-todi.php |archivedate=14 December 2013 |df=dmy }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Ashok Kumar Todi |url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=46424926&capId=20336011 |website=www.bloomberg.com}}</ref>

==Career==
Ashok Todi was born into a Hindu [[Marwari people|Marwadi]] business family, the son of industrialist Giridhari Lal Todi.

===Lux Industries Limited===
Lux Industries Limited is an innerwear company of India with three brands in its portfolio - Lux Innerwear, GenX Style Inners, and ONN Premium Inners.<ref name="Media Wix">http://media.wix.com/ugd/50d0b5_a21c067c8f163bfb104bdb2523ed2dec.pdf</ref>{{failed verification|date=January 2014}} [[Lux Cozi]] is the main brand of Lux Industries Limited. The company launched a consumer coupon scheme in 1992 called "Mazedar Mauka". From 1 product, the company's product range has expanded to more than 150 products today.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}} Ashok is:
*The Chairman of [[Lux Industries]] Limited;
*Director of Biswanath Hosiery Mills Limited; and,
*Director of Todi Hosiery Limited

Todi took over as the chairman of the company on 1 October 2007.{{cn|date=January 2020}} By a quirk of fate, this was exactly the time when he became embroiled in the murder case.

=== Awards ===
Under Todi's leadership, Lux Industries Limited received the star export house award.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}} In 2013, Lux was awarded Asia's Most Promising Brand<ref name="Asia's Most Promising Brand">http://www.wcrc.co/#!asias-most-promising/c9x5 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130422121111/http://www.wcrc.co/#!asias-most-promising/c9x5 |date=22 April 2013 }}</ref> and Master Brand 2013.<ref name="Master Brand 2013">{{Cite web |url=http://www.masterbrand.info/master_2013.html#one |title=Archived copy |access-date=14 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214105401/http://www.masterbrand.info/master_2013.html#one |archive-date=14 December 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{failed verification|date=January 2014}}

==Murder case==
In September 2007, Todi became embroiled in a controversy regarding the death of [[Rizwanur Rahman]], who was allegedly in a relationship with Todi's daughter, and by some accounts is said to have been secretly married to her. The case remains under investigation as of 2021.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/rizwanur-rahman-case-hc-rejects-ashok-todis-plea-for-dismissal-of-charges-4700775/|title=Rizwanur Rahman case: HC rejects Ashok Todi's plea for dismissal of charges|date=12 June 2017|work=The Indian Express|accessdate=9 June 2018}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131214105413/http://www.luxinnerwear.com/chairman.aspx Lux Innerwear]

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[[Category:Businesspeople from Kolkata]]
[[Category:1958 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Indian billionaires]]
[[Category:Bhawanipur Education Society College alumni]]

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