B.Grimm is the oldest multinational infrastructure development company in Thailand. Founded in 1878 in Bangkok, B.Grimm started as a pharmacy and has since grown into a large group of companies with diverse business interests, including energy, building and industrial systems, healthcare, lifestyle, real estate, transportation, and emerging digital technologies. Our main goal is to enhance the quality of life and cultural prosperity of society as a whole.
With 22% annual growth in recent years, we seek to contribute to society by promoting all aspects of civilization, be it the economic sector or the development focusing on improving livelihood, education, culture, religion, equestrian and environment. As a unique contribution to the civilization in Thailand, under the philosophy “Doing Business with Compassion for the Development of Civilisation in Harmony with Nature”, we always wanting our associates,
business partners and society at large to experience progress, prosperity and happiness.
This famous quote from the H.H. the Dalai Lama reminds us that everyone wants to be happy. Most of us want to be in love. Most of us want to do what they love. If they know what it is, most of us want to do what inspires them. Most of us prefer to do what caters to their strengths. Most of us like to be close to their friends. Most of us want to be valued and contribute to a higher good. At B.Grimm we believe that if we do business with compassion for the development of civilisation in harmony with nature, we can bring happiness to everyone.
Doing business with compassion means to work with loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity, or, metta, karuna, mudita, and uppekha. This is how human beings would love
to be and behave.
Developing civilisation refers to the many factors that create the conditions for the wellbeing and happiness of people. Throughout its history, B.Grimm has been serving many different needs of people with products and services such as medicine, irrigation canals, telecommunication, electricity plants and equipment, cooling products, medical equipment, trains, ships, restaurants, spas, porcelain, and buildings.
For people in a society to be truly happy, satisfying their needs has to come with equitable socio-economic development within the limits of what nature can provide, integrated with good governance and all while allowing people to maintain their cultural identity and practices. In the Gross National Happiness Philosophy of Bhutan these factors are called the four pillars of balanced development. If they are not carefully considered, other people will suffer and then true abiding happiness cannot exist. B.Grimm has always been following these same four pillars with its many social programs alongside our business activities to develop and promote religion, education, environment, sports, music and arts.
Eventually, doing business with compassion for the development of civilisation in harmony with nature is only possible with a mindset of moderation and with methods, which His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej has been describing as economic, cautious, and conforming with moral principles. They form the cornerstones of Thailand’s Sufficiency Economy Philosophy and are also at the heart of B.Grimm’s way of doing business.
