Most Valuable Indian Brands 2025: The Top 10 List

These days, a company’s brand value is comparable to the top line or bottom line of the business. Brand value reflects a brand’s trust, recognition, and impact in the marketplace. In 2025, Indian businesses are making an impact on the global stage with unique identity development based on innovation, sustainability, and customer retention. 

The Brand Finance India 100 – 2025 report indicates that the combined brand value of India’s top 100 brands has reached a significant USD 236.5 billion, which reflects the growing strength of Indian business within the current global economic landscape. 

In this article, we present the Top 10 Most Valuable Indian Brands of 2025 with their brand value, highlights, and pointers to their success.

Top 10 Most Valuable Indian Brands in 2025

Source: Brand Finance India 100 Report 2025

Brand Profiles and Insights

1. Tata Group – India’s Most Valuable Brand

The Tata Group has reached the top spot again for the 13th year in a row. When you consider everything the Tata Group does to benefit India, the potential impact of its brand is tremendous, particularly following its 2025 report that it achieved one of the highest total brand values in the country, surpassing USD $30 billion.

• Strength: The company has multiple lines of business vertically integrated in sectors such as IT, steel, automobiles, electric vehicles (EVs), and consumer products, among others, thus diversifying its exposure to public reaction, economic strains, reputations, and other potential performance barriers. 
• Sustainability Leader: Tata also had the highest Sustainability Perception Value (SPV) at USD $4.3 billion. 
• Global Reach: The company expands to over 100 countries.

2. Infosys – Leading IT Brand in India

As for Infosys, India’s technology behemoth is the second-most valuable brand in the country.

• Growth: Their brand value grew 15% from last year.
• Services: They are most recognized for their IT consulting, digital transformation, and AI capability.
• Sustainability: They have the most favorable sustainability gap, meaning not only do they perform relatively better than people thought, but there is still room for performance growth.

3. HDFC Group – Trusted Financial Brand

The HDFC brand remains strong even after its merger with HDFC Bank.

• Trust Factor: The HDFC name is one of the most recognizable and trusted names in banking, borrowing, and finance around India. 
• Strength: The HDFC brand is also recognized for its strong and established background in retail, or the ability to grow its brand to a relatively large customer base.
• Digital Push: HDFC continued to recognize the ability and sensitivity of growing digital banking services related to customer convenience and shaping the financing space.

4. LIC (Life Insurance Corporation) – India’s Leading Insurance Brand 

In India, the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) is the dominant brand in insurance and is growing rapidly.

• Rate of Growth: Brand value almost increased by 35% in 2025.
• Household Name: The insurance giant is trusted among more than 250 million Indians
• Market Leader: The leading life insurance provider in India still

5. Reliance Industries (RIL) – Diversified Business Powerhouse

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Reliance is still one of India’s largest brands and has business in many different categories.

• Strengths: oil & gas and retail, Jio telecommunications, digital services, and renewable energy.
• Innovation: aggressively push into 5G, digital ecosystems, and green energy.
• Brand Value Growth: The report shows steady double-digit growth through 2025.

6. State Bank of India (SBI) – India’s Largest Public Sector Bank

State Bank of India (SBI) is the largest public sector bank in India and is a trusted financial brand. 

• Reach: more than 22,000 branches across India and global reach.
• Customer Base: goes beyond more than 500 million customers.
• Digital Banking: It is still the leader in initiatives; an example is the YONO app to engage youth and rural banking.

7. HCLTech – Emerging IT Leader

In 2023, HCLTech has advanced on the list of global brands, with 17% growth in brand value.

• Strengths: A strong focus on cloud technologies, digital engineering, and AI solutions.
• Global Growth: Among the largest IT services companies in North America and Europe.
• Innovation: Continuing investment in new AI solutions.

8. Bharti Airtel – Leading Telecom Brand

Airtel was the best telecom brand in India in 2025.

• Market Position: Facing competition from Jio in the mobile, broadband, and enterprise markets.
• Digital Services: Moving into fintech and cloud services.
• Subscribers: Over 350 million subscribers in India/Africa.

9. Larsen & Toubro (L&T) – Engineering and Construction Giant

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L&T is a premier global engineering and construction brand.

• Industry Reach: Heavy industry, defense, technology, and renewables.
• Growth: Benefitted from the boom in infrastructure and growth in India.
• Innovation: Strong focus on sustainable and technological solutions.

10. Mahindra Group – Mobility and Innovation Leader

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Mahindra competes chiefly in SUVs and tractors but is focused on innovation in mobility.

• Automobiles: Top SUV brand in India, while continuing to progress with EV.
• Exports: Exporting vehicles and tractors to 40+ countries.
• Diverse Growth Model: Involved in IT services, aerospace, and hospitality.

Key Drivers Behind India’s Top Brands

1. Growth and Breadth: Tata’s level of dominance is overall due to a breadth of operations across steel, autos, IT, consumer goods, EVs, and more. This breadth allows the group to maintain brand value through cycles. 

2. Technology and Digital Capabilities: Organizations such as Infosys and HCLTech find themselves in positions of leadership by investing heavily in their offerings with respect to cloud, AI, digital transformation, and global delivery models to future-proof their organizations. 

3. Trust and History: Businesses like LIC, SBI, and HDFC have established trust with the public. That level of trust creates an inherent sense of safety for consumers, especially in finance, insurance, and beyond. It isn’t easy to build that type of brand over decades. 

4. Growth Rates and Momentum: A number of brands reported double-digit growth in 2025:

• The Tata brand value grew by around 10%. 
• LIC growth was somewhere around 35%–36%. 
• The Adani Group business sector posted the highest growth at 82% (but was not one of the top 10). 

5. Sustainability and Brand Perception

• Tata stands out with respect to sustainability perception as it relates to Indian brands with an SPV of 5.0B USD.
• Infosys has a net positive sustainability gap in terms of perception, meaning overall it is a better-performing target listed in ESG vs. public perception, exposing additional brand value potential.

Current Trends and Challenges for Indian Brands

• For 2025, all top 10 brands in India had double-digit growth.
• Brand value vs. brand strength disparity: the strongest brands are not ranked highest in brand value in USD.
• Digital disruption: Legacy brands must quickly pivot/update or be left behind capital-wise with new tech business models.
• Sustainability lobbying: consumers (younger generations especially) are now looking for visible and meaningful ESG policies.

Conclusion

The most valuable Indian brands of 2025 highlight India’s emergence as a global powerhouse. While Tata has an extraordinary array of companies, Infosys is the leader in IT, and LIC is the trusted Indian brand in every household; all of them are infinitely valuable pieces of India’s accessible economy. When you look at them all together, Indian brands signify an economy that sits in the ranks of global brands that are moving the nation forward in a valuable and positive way.  

The reason they are valuable brands isn’t just that they are relatively large, but that they bring together a blend of innovation, consumer trust, sustainability, and a global worldview. As India rises, we can expect all of these brands to continue being an inspiration as they lead globally forward.

FAQs 

Q1. What is the difference between brand strength and brand value?
Brand value measures the financial worth of a brand, while brand strength reflects consumer perception based on loyalty, marketing, and reputation.

Q2. Which Indian brand first crossed USD 30 billion in brand value?
The Tata Group was the first Indian brand to surpass the USD 30 billion mark in 2025.

Q3. Which brand saw the highest growth in 2025?
The Adani Group recorded the highest brand value growth at 82%, though it did not feature in the top 10 list.

Q4. Which brand leads in sustainability among Indian companies?
The Tata Group leads with a Sustainability Perception Value (SPV) of USD 5 billion.

Q5. What is the combined brand value of India’s top 100 brands in 2025?
The total combined brand value is USD 236.5 billion, reflecting the strength of Indian brands globally.