About us

One family, still building

A construction group in Ahmedabad that kept starting things, and none of them was bought ready-made.

The family began building at Meghaninagar in 1989, after seven years trading in construction materials. Everything the group has become since follows from that decision — homes, shops, industry and public works first, and then a school, a newspaper, a survey company, a bottling line, an auction house and a shooting range.

The seven names on the 1997 constitution are the seven it carries into 2026. In an industry where firms are assembled around a single project and dissolved when it completes, that is not an administrative detail: it is the reason a buyer signing today is dealing with the people who began in 1989.

What the group holds to is easier to state than to keep. A family buying a home and a department awarding a contract are handing over years of their lives, and the right answer to that is the same in both cases — the best the company is capable of building, every time.

A drawing on a time axis from 1982 to 2026. The axis is spaced by event rather than to scale, so that the long quiet stretches do not run empty; the years stay in order, and the one span that is materially compressed carries a break mark. One line begins at the family’s materials yard, and a strand leaves it at each year the record gives: construction in 1989, education in 1991, beverages in 2000, technology in 2012, media and art in 2017 and sport in 2019. By 2026 the group is seven divisions.

19821989Seven divisions

Scrub it with the page, forwards or back. There are no quantities in this drawing and no curve: the group holds no year-by-year figures, and a rising line would be something I had invented rather than something it can show. What it draws is breadth — one business becoming seven divisions and ten businesses — and every year in it is one the group has given. The axis is spaced by event and not to scale: the years run in order and a longer gap is still drawn wider than a shorter one, but the quiet stretch between 2000 and 2012 is compressed to keep the drawing readable, and it is marked with a break where that happens.

The record

1982 to 2026

Fourteen dated entries. Every one of them is a date the group has given us, which is why there are fourteen rather than a round number.

1982The family is trading in construction materials, run jointly.
1989The family begins building at Meghaninagar, under the blessing of His Holiness Pramukh Swami Maharaj. Sureshbhai Patel and his uncle Bharatbhai Patel are the two most active in the business and drive most of its growth in these years.
1991The first Shayona school opens — two years after the first house.
1997Eight years of building are legally constituted as Shayona Land Corporation.
2000Shayona Beverages is established.
2012Shayona Management Services is established.
2017Shayona Times is formed and acquires NavGujarat Samay.
2017Cramoisi Art, the group’s auction house, is started.
March 2019Crowne Shooting & Sports Academy opens at Valad.
26 January 2020The Rajkot Bus Port is handed to the state on Republic Day.
June 2020BIMAGE Consulting India is incorporated.
2021Ahmedabad Mirror joins the group.
April 2022The Palanpur Bus Port is delivered.
1 April 2026Shayona Land Corporation converts and begins operating as Shayona Constructions Limited.
37
Years
one family, one entity, since 1989
75+
Projects
private and government, taken and completed

The vision

What the group is for

To be trusted in every business we enter, and to keep entering new ones. To give a family buying a home and a department awarding a contract the same standard of work, because both of them are handing us years of their lives. To remain one family however large the company grows, and to let each new field teach the people in it something the last one could not. And to hand the generation after us both the values we began with and the instinct to keep beginning.

As the book sets it. ⟨Drafted at the chairman’s instruction, 13 August 2026, and awaiting his sign-off.⟩

The mission

Three commitments

We hold what people entrust to us.

Every family and every trader who buys from us gives years of life and work to do it. We treat that as the obligation it is, and we build to the very best of what we are capable of, every single time.

We build homes.

A home is the beginning of what a family becomes next. We build knowing that what we hand over will outlast us, and will open doors for the people inside it long after the keys change hands.

We keep beginning things.

Construction, education, media, technology, beverages, art, sport. Each new field opens a new way of thinking, and every one of them has grown the group and the people in it. We diversify to keep both growing.