The Kirloskar Group is an Indian conglomerate with sales exceeding $3.5 billion^{[citation needed]}. The Kirloskar Group today exports to over 70 countries, especially within India and over most of Africa, South East Asia and Europe. The flagship & holding company, Kirloskar Brothers Limited established in 1888, is India's largest maker of Pumps and Valves and also undertakes construction projects through its subsidiary Aban Construction. It is headed by Mr Sanjay Kirloskar.

The Kirloskar group of companies was one of the earliest industrial groups which made a mark in the engineering industry in India. The group produces pumps, engines, compressors, lathes and electrical equipments like motors, transformers and generators (it is the world's largest genset manufacturer). While Laxmanrao Kirloskar established the group, his son S. L. Kirloskar played a major role in its rapid growth.

S. L. Kirloskar was a man who transformed his vision into a promising and thinking reality, of application of appropriate technology, customer satisfaction and dauntless integrity. SLK was a global thinker who had the courage and the confidence in his own country even in the pre-independence era.

Sanjay Kirloskar is the chairman and managing director of Kirloskar Brothers Limited, the flagship & holding company of the $3.5 Billion Kirloskar Group.

Mr. Sanjay Kirloskar has led Kirloskar Brothers Ltd as its Chairman & Managing Director as well as other Kirloskar Group companies since 1983. Under his leadership Kirloskar Brothers has come to become one of the fastest growing companies in India. Kirloskar Brothers acquired SPP Pumps (UK), in 2002 and then Aban Construction, one of India's leading construction companies in 2006, followed by The Kolhapur Steels limited in 2007 and Braybar Pumps Ltd (South Africa) in 2010. For the last 5 years Kirloskar Brothers has shown an average RONW (Return on Net Worth) of 32% although it was 54.83% from 2004-2005.

Today Kirloskar Brothers Ltd, with is manufacturing plants in US (Atlanta), UK (Coleford), South Africa, UAE (Jebel Ali), Thailand (Bangkok) and six plants in India supports customers in 80 countries with its 950 dealerships and 370 service stations worldwide.