A career built brick by brick
P.N.C. Menon admits he is a bit of a perfectionist.
Dressed in a Lanvin suit with diamond-studded cufflinks, black Prada shoes and not a hair out of place, the 62-year-old chairman of Sobha Developers says: “If there is a spot of dirt on my shoes, I can’t work. It makes me lose my confidence.”
He points out that his need for perfection reflects in the kind of work he has been delivering for 25 years, which has led to a company with a market capitalization of Rs 2,400 crore, and a presence in Bangalore, Thrissur, Pune, Coimbatore and Chennai.
Destiny’s child: Menon, whose father died when he was 10 and who couldn’t afford to complete college, now heads a Rs 2,400 crore company. Jayachandran/Mint
Menon formed Sobha Developers Ltd in India in 1995, 18 years after he set up his interiors and construction business in Oman, where he climbed the first rungs of the ladder to success. That business is still there. Sobha Developers, named after his homemaker wife, is headquartered in Bangalore and became a public listed company in 2006. It started small but now has 2,000 full-time employees and 25,000 contract workers. Some of its prominent projects in Bangalore include residential ones such as Sobha Amethyst, Sobha Sunscape, Sobha Carnation and Sobha Magnolia. Projects outside Bangalore include Sobha Carnation in Pune, Sobha Emerald and Sobha Turquoise in Coimbatore and Sobha Malachite in Thrissur.Menon’s life fits the rags-to-riches cliché, and he politely protests that the story has been told too often. Yet, at our insistence, he narrates his journey from Kerala to Oman when he was 26, with just Rs 50 in his pocket. Menon’s father died when he was 10. He had to drop out of college because of financial problems at home—he was pursuing a BCom from Sree Kerala Varma College, Thrissur.
He then began doing small design jobs, such as interiors, in Kerala. He’d had no formal training. “I could say that it is destiny because I met my first business partner by chance when he was visiting Kerala to buy a fishing boat,” says Menon, who followed him to Oman.
Menon took a loan of 3,000 rials (around Rs 3.49 lakh now) from a bank in Oman to set up his interior decor business. He climbed up steadily, “two steps” at a time. “My first assignment was the interiors of a photo studio, doing the panelling, etc.,” he recalls.
Over the next 17 years, he moved towards larger projects, hotels and then palatial homes, including a project for a royal family in West Asia. Under contract not to name any of his royal clients, Menon shows a book containing photographic samples of his work in palaces.
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