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{{Short description|Indian businessman}}
{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix =
| birth_name = Brijmohan Lall Munjal
| name = Brijmohan Lall Munjal
| honorific_suffix =
| image = Dr. Brijmohan Lall Munjal 2005 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Munjal in 2005
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1923|07|01|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Kamalia]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2015|11|01|1923|07|01}}
| death_place = [[New Delhi]], [[India]]
| alma_mater =
| occupation = {{Hlist|Businessman|Investor}}
| title = Chairman of [[Hero Motors Company]]
| term =
| predecessor =
| successor =
| parents =
| relations =
| awards = [[Padma Bhushan]] (2005)
}}
'''Brijmohan Lall Munjal''' (1 July 1923 – 1 November 2015) was an Indian entrepreneur and the founder of [[Hero Motors Company|Hero Group]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=23 September 2015|title=Brijmohan Lall Munjal|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/brijmohan-lall-munjal/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-30|website=Forbes|language=en}}</ref>

==Early life==
Munjal was born on 1 July 1923 in [[Kamalia]], undivided India, which is located in the [[Toba Tek Singh District]] of present-day [[Punjab, Pakistan]]. He came to [[Amritsar]] from Kamalia in 1944 at the age of 20 with his three brothers, Dayanand, Satyanand and [[Om Prakash Munjal|Om Prakash]].<ref name="The Hindu obit">{{Cite news|date=2015-11-02|title=Hero Group founder Munjal dead|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|agency=[[Press Trust of India|PTI]]|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/hero-group-founder-munjal-dead/article7830182.ece|access-date=2021-07-30|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2015-11-02|title=Brijmohan Munjal, founder of Hero Group, passes away at 92|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/business/business-others/brijmohan-munjal-founder-of-hero-group-dies-at-92/|access-date=2021-07-30|website=The Indian Express|language=en}}</ref>

==Merchant and industrialist==
Once in Amritsar, Munjal and his brothers started a bicycle parts business. They later moved to [[Ludhiana]], where in 1954, he founded [[Hero Cycles]] Limited and began making bicycle parts, starting with forks and then adding handles and other parts.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Munjal|first=Sunil Kant|author-link=Sunil Kant Munjal|date=10 January 2020|title=How the Hero Cycles journey was started by the Munjal brothers (and where the brand came from)|url=https://scroll.in/article/949350/how-the-hero-cycles-journey-was-started-by-the-munjal-brothers-and-where-the-brand-came-from|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-05|website=Scroll.in|language=en-US}}</ref>

In 1956, the Punjab government issued a license to manufacture bicycles. His company got this license and from here his world changed. With the financial support of Rs 6 [[lakh]] from the government and its own capital, Hero Cycles forayed into bicycle manufacturing by getting the status of "Large Scale Unit". The company had an annual production capacity of 7,500 cycles at that time. By 1975 it had become the largest bicycle company in India and in 1986, Hero Cycles was entered in the [[Guinness World Records|Guinness Book]] as the world's largest bicycle company.<ref name="Mint bio">{{Cite web|last=Raj|first=Amrit|date=2015-11-01|title=Hero Group founder Brijmohan Lall Munjal dies at 92|url=https://www.livemint.com/Companies/9ZwfYcI6S5IC8c0aJFOGkM/Brijmohan-Lall-Munjal-founder-of-Hero-Group-dies-at-92.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-05|website=[[Livemint]]|language=en}}</ref>

===Hero Honda===
After the bicycle company he opened a two-wheeler company named Hero Majestic Company. In this he started making Majestic scooters and mopeds. In 1984, he signed a deal with Japan's big auto company [[Honda]] and from here his world changed again. Together with Honda, he set up a plant in [[Dharuhera]], [[Haryana]]. On 13 April 1985, Hero Honda's first bike CD 100 came in the market. The Hero Group made such progress that by 2002, 8.6 million Hero Honda motorcycles had been sold and 16,000 motorcycles were being produced daily.<ref name="Mint bio"/>

===Hero MotoCorp===
{{Main article|Hero MotoCorp}}
In August 2011, after exiting the joint venture with Honda Motors, the company was renamed as [[Hero MotoCorp]], and the Hero Group decided to pay royalties to Honda Company in order to use the Hero Honda brand by 2013. The Hero Group was then able to export to countries where Honda already had business and Hero-Honda joint venture had not been allowed to sell goods.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Raj|first=Amrit|date=2010-12-16|title=Hero, Honda end 26-year partnership|url=https://www.livemint.com/Home-Page/olMPQv1Ygg1at49qOKPBRL/Hero-Honda-end-26year-partnership.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-20|website=Livemint|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Thakkar|first=Ketan|date=16 April 2012|title=Honda Motor expanding R&D capacity; company to double the number of engineers|work=The Economic Times|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/honda-motor-expanding-rd-capacity-company-to-double-the-number-of-engineers/articleshow/12682406.cms|access-date=2021-08-20}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Brijmohan was married to Santosh and they have four sons (including [[Pawan Munjal|Pawan]] and [[Sunil Kant Munjal|Sunil]]) and a daughter.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=23 November 2011|title=The succession story of Munjal family|url=https://www.ndtv.com/business/the-succession-story-of-munjal-family-42414|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-30|website=NDTV.com}}</ref> He died on 1 November 2015 in [[New Delhi]] after a short illness.<ref name=":1" />

==Awards==
[[File:The well-known Industrialist and the Chairman Hero Group Dr. Brijmohan Lall Munjal receives the Padma Bhushan award from the President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in New Delhi on March 28, 2005.jpg|thumb|Brijmohan Lall Munjal (''left'') receiving the Padma Bhushan award from [[A. P. J. Abdul Kalam]] in 2005]]
Brijmohan Lal Munjal was awarded the [[Padma Bhushan]] by the Government of India in 2005 in the field of industry and trade.<ref>{{Cite web|authors=PTI|date=2 November 2015|title=Hero MotoCorp Founder Brijmohan Lall Munjal Dies|url=https://www.ndtv.com/business/hero-motocorp-founder-brijmohan-lall-munjal-dies-1238884|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-30|website=NDTV.com}}</ref> Other major honors he has received include:
* Lifetime Contribution Award by [[All India Management Association]] in 2011<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-11-02|title=Founder of Hero Group Brijmohan Lall Munjal passed away|url=https://www.india.com/education/founder-of-hero-group-brijmohan-lall-munjal-passed-away-1576326/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-30|website=India.com|language=en}}</ref>
* The Forbes India Leadership Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2014<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mishra|first=Ashish K.|date=21 October 2013|title=Brijmohan Lall Munjal: A Hero For Life|url=https://www.forbesindia.com/article/leaderhip-awards-2013/brijmohan-lall-munjal-a-hero-for-lifes/36351/1|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-30|website=Forbes India|language=en}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Indian company founders]]
[[Category:Indian billionaires]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in trade and industry]]
[[Category:Indian industrialists]]
[[Category:1923 births]]
[[Category:2015 deaths]]

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