 Nirma also acquired Lafarge India Cement Assets for $1.4 Billion .Nirma acquired another big company Emami cement in Feb,2020 

In 1969, Dr. Karsanbhai Patel, a chemist at the Gujarat Government's Department of Mining and Geology manufactured phosphate-free synthetic detergent powder, and started selling it locally.The new yellow powder was priced at ₹3.50 per kg, at a time when HUL's Surf was priced at ₹13.