Joy Alukkas is an Indian businessman from Kerala. He is the chairman and managing director of Joyalukkas Group. According to a 2023 Forbes report, he has a net worth of $4.4 billion. [1][2] His father, Varghese Alukkas "A. J. Varghese" of the Alukkas family started the jewellery business by setting a store in Thrissur, Kerala, India. [3] .

Jos Alukkas Jewellery is a jewellery brand based in Thrissur, Kerala, India. Founded in 1964, the company has expanded from a family-owned business to a significant participant in the gold, diamond, and platinum jewellery market throughout India.

Aug 23, 2024 · His father, Varghese Alukkas, laid the foundation for what would become a global empire. Starting with a single store in Kerala, the family business expanded under the guidance of Varghese’s sons, including Joy.

Mar 13, 2025 · Alukkas' son John Paul is managing director of the international jewelry business. Alukkas decided to postpone the public listing of the jewelry business in 2023 citing a tepid IPO market. In...

Son of a jewelry store owner and school dropout, Joy Alukkas went to the Middle East to open the family's first overseas store in 1987 in Abu Dhabi. He broke off to launch his own Joyalukkas brand, which now has 100 outlets spread across India and 60 overseas.

Apr 29, 2024 · By 1964, a few years after the Sino-India war that forced the government to announce gold import restrictions, the Alukkas family was back in the world of jewellery, this time with a focus on...

Dec 5, 2017 · Take Joy Alukkas, the fourth son of Varghese, who joined the family business in 1976 after graduating from St Thomas College, Thrissur. A decade after learning the entrepreneurial ropes, he...

Feb 4, 2025 · Son of a jewelry store owner and school dropout, Joy Alukkas went to the Middle East to open the family’s first overseas store in 1987 in Abu Dhabi. He broke off to launch his own Joyalukkas brand, which now has 84 outlets spread across India and 43 in other countries.

Alukkas is the chairperson of Joyalukkas Group, a multi-national jewellery retail chain. In 1956, Alukkas' father, Varghese Alukkas, opened the first jewellery store in Kerala's Thrissur. A...

Feb 26, 2023 · He never looked back. He established a second showroom in Dubai in the same year and a third in Sharjah in 1991, soon after the Gulf War. The five brothers’ decision to split the family business and go their separate ways in 2000, …