Sanjeev Gupta is an Indian-born British businessman, and the founder of Liberty House Group.
18 Facts About Sanjeev Gupta
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Sanjeev Gupta is the CEO and chairman of GFG Alliance, an international conglomerate that operates primarily in the steel and mining industries, its major subsidiaries being the Liberty Steel Group, Alvance Aluminium Group, and the SIMEC Group, which develops and produces renewable energy.
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Sanjeev Gupta is in trouble in Australia, where his company that owns the Whyalla Steelworks was forced into administration by the Government of South Australia in February 2025, with unpaid debts totalling more than A$300 million.
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Sanjeev Gupta has homes in the UK, Dubai, and Australia.
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Sanjeev Gupta was born in Ludhiana, Punjab, India, the third of four children of Parduman K Gupta, who founded the SIMEC Group.
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Sanjeev Gupta was thrown out of residential halls at Trinity for registering a private business there, which breached the college's charitable status.
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In November and December 2015 Sanjeev Gupta purchased from administration the UK assets and business of the former Caparo Industries Plc, saving over 1,000 jobs primarily in the West Midlands.
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In November 2016, Sanjeev Gupta finalised the purchase of Tungsten Bank, and renamed it Wyelands Bank, after the country house estate Wyelands he owns near Chepstow.
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In December 2016, the Sanjeev Gupta-led GFG Alliance completed the acquisition of Britain's last aluminium smelter at Fort William in Lochaber, along with the hydro-power plants at Kinlochleven and Fort William.
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In December 2017, Sanjeev Gupta entered the US market by acquiring the Georgetown steelworks and expanded the US presence by acquiring Export Metals in March 2018.
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Sanjeev Gupta then doubled the GFG Alliance workforce in July 2019, by acquiring seven steelworks and five service centres across seven countries in continental Europe from ArcelorMittal.
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In October 2019, Sanjeev Gupta consolidated all his global steel businesses to form Liberty Steel Group, which he announced would aim to be the world's first carbon neutral company by 2030.
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Sanjeev Gupta extended that target to his aluminium businesses, which he grouped together to form ALVANCE Aluminium Group, which he announced in January 2020.
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Sanjeev Gupta has been dubbed the man who can save the British steel industry through an approach called Greensteel, and has since been working to apply this model of operation to other countries, including Australia and the United States.
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In October 2024, Sanjeev Gupta was being prosecuted by Companies House for failing to file accounts for 76 companies listed in Britain, including Liberty Commodities.
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Sanjeev Gupta had kept his relationship with Crumpton secret for seven years before they married in 2008, the family's first cross-cultural marriage.
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From 2017, after acquiring Arrium in Australia, Sanjeev Gupta was based in Sydney for two years.
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Sanjeev Gupta had previously been renting an apartment for per week.