In August 2014, Donald Trump walked the red carpet into the conference hall of Mumbai’s Four Seasons Hotel in Worli surrounded by half a dozen bouncers in black. When he addressed a press conference with Abhishek Lodha, CEO & MD of Lodha Group, by his side, both sitting on bar chairs, no one thought that in less than a decade, India would emerge as The Trump Organisation’s biggest real estate market outside of North America, the home turf of Trump’s company. Trump Tower Mumbai | Photo Credit: Special arrangement There are more Trump Towers in India now — either completed or in the pipeline — than anywhere else in the world, besides North America.
Back then, on a business trip to India as Chairman and President of The Trump Organisation, Trump flew down in his private jet to Mumbai, to unveil Trump Tower in India’s business capital, which had come up through a licensing agreement with Lodha Group. The interiors of Trump Towers Pune. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Before he became President of the United States for the first time in 2017, four Trump Towers were either completed or under licensing agreement.
Those were in Mumbai (Lodha), Pune (Panchshil Developer), Gurugram in NCR and in Kolkata. All these Trump Towers were through licensing agreements with various developers through The Trump Organisations’ exclusive Indian partner Tribeca Developers, founded by Wharton-educated Kalpesh Mehta, who was Donald Trump Jr’s classmate 14 years ago. Once Trump dem.
