Bharti Airtel Ltd.

Bharti Airtel has been placed at the ninth spot in Africa’s top ten most admired global brands, beating Japanese car manufacturer Honda. Airtel is the only telecom company from India featuring on the list of top ten global brands admired most in Africa. Airtel’s 30% brand value increase was better than any of the others in the top ten, except Samsung, which grew its brand value year-on-year by 121%.

The list was headed by US-based Coca Cola and dominated by other US and European brands, the only other Asian brands were Japan’s Toyota and Samsung Electronics of Korea.

Airtel is India’s largest telecom company with 192.22 million subscribers as of August-end. The company had a market capitalisation of Rs 1.28 lakh crore as on October 1 and it owns seven operational data centres across the country. Out of them, two are in Noida, one each in Chennai, Bangalore, Pune, Bhubaneswar and Mumbai.