Empee Group

The saga of Empee Group has been one of perseverance and hard work in pursuit of quality and excellence. Founded over 40 years ago, the Empee Group has grown in stature, diversifying its operational areas and size.

Since its inception in early 70’s the Group has risen to be one of the leading conglomerates in the southern part of the country. The credit goes in entirety to the undying spirit and farsighted vision of its founder-chairman, Mr. M P Purushothaman. Today, the Empee Group encompasses all business related to Hotels, Liquor, Sugar, Power, Packaging, Transport, Construction and Exports.

The history of Empee began way back in early 1970’s when a small restaurant was started and by mid seventies acquired the erstwhile Hotel Madras International now known as Hotel Grand Orient and Hotel New Victoria thus establishing in the Hotel business.

Empee Group diversified into the business of manufacturing liquor in Chennai by establishing its first distillery in Mevaloorkuppam in 1984. It further progressed to Alcobev business with the acquisition of a brewery license in 1987. Perceiving the rapid growth of alcohol market in Karnataka, Empee had acquired a distillery unit in 2003 from the Alembic group in Whitefield, Bangalore.

As a step further in diversifying its business activities by backward integrating, a sugar factory was established in 1991 in Nayudupet, Nellore District of Andhra Pradesh.

In 1994, the Industrial Alcohol Plant was added to the sugar factory making it a complete sugar complex.

In 1996, emboldened by the success in distilling & marketing liquor in Chennai, Empee Group established another unit in Palakkad, Kerala to meet the local demand.

Since Empee was diversifying into different sectors of business, the need to have a centralized control to coordinate various operations was necessary. As a result a corporate office was established in 2000 at 'Empee Towers' in Egmore, Chennai.

Over the years to support the growth, Empee group had entered into packaging business, cargo transport, and travels – this as a support for its growing hospitality & Alcohol business. The group has lately added another feather to its glorious past by entering into the realm of producing non-conventional power generation; promoting and tapping non-conventional energy by introducing wind propelled electric generators in Coimbatore, Tamilnadu.

Following the glorious success, Empee Group has been licensed to set up a co-generation power plant adjacent to the sugar mill complex. As a mark of the Empee Group’s commitment to non-conventional energy generation the plant is suitably devised to use biomass in addition to bagasse as fuel for electric power generation. Power generated by these units will be fed into the state grid or made available to the private sector.