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T.T. Jagannathan, president emeritus of T.T.K. Prestige, passed distant successful Bengaluru connected Friday (October 10, 2025). He was 77.
“His abrupt and unexpected passing distant volition beryllium an irreparable nonaccomplishment to the Company, and each the Directors and employees of the Company convey heavy sorrow and condolences to his family,” T.T.K. Prestige, the room and location products institution and the flagship of the T.T.K. Group, said successful a banal speech filing.
Mr. Jagannathan, the grandson of erstwhile Union Finance Minister T.T. Krishnamachari, was a golden medallist from IIT Madras and held a PhD successful operations probe from Cornell University, USA. The concern was founded by Krishnamachari.
In 1972, his begetter T.T. Narasimhan visited Cornell and urged Mr. Jagannathan to instrumentality location and prevention the business, “as it was collapsing.”
Transforming the brand
Mr. Jagannathan was a promoter-director of the institution and had been astatine the helm of T.T.K. Prestige Ltd. since 1975. He led the institution to go a marketplace person successful the tiny appliances manufacture successful the country, according to the company’s yearly study for 2025.
He was instrumental successful transforming the institution to scope a marketplace headdress of implicit 1 cardinal dollars. He made outstanding contributions not lone successful the palmy absorption of affairs of the institution but besides successful providing indispensable method inputs for the improvement of caller products, probe and development, and exertion of exertion by the company, it said.
Long legacy
Mr. Jagannathan joined the Board of T.T.K. Prestige arsenic managing manager successful 1975 and served successful that relation for implicit 26 years until 2000. He past served arsenic enforcement president for 19 years until 2019. Although helium stepped down from enforcement responsibilities successful 2019, helium continued arsenic non-executive director/chairman. He stepped down arsenic president with effect from March 25, 2025. He was the longest-serving director/chairman successful the company’s history.
He authored the publication ‘Disrupt and Conquer: How T.T.K. Prestige became a cardinal dollar company’, which chronicles the company’s galore milestones and however it had fought bankruptcy to go a palmy agency.
Mr. Jagannathan was instrumental successful turning astir the T.T.K. Group and making it debt-free, which helium described arsenic being achieved done “a immense dose of communal sense.”
His large invention, the gasket merchandise system, which helium ne'er patented, enactment an extremity to the spate of bursting unit cookers and besides saved the institution from the brink of collapse.
Love for cooking
Mr. Jagannathan loved cooking, which helium learnt astatine the property of eight.
“It was portion cooking that I discovered the occupation points successful the kitchen, and that helped maine innovate. I person made definite that each my executives and managers besides cognize however to cook,” helium had said during the motorboat of the book.
“If you don’t cognize however to cook, past you are not successful the cooking business,” helium often said.
