Greaves Cotton
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| Industry | Engineering |
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| Headquarters |
3rd Floor, Motilal Oswal Tower Junction of Gokhale & Sayani Road Prabhadevi, Mumbai - 400 025, India |
Number of locations | Mumbai, Pune, Aurangabad, Chennai |
Key people |
Nagesh Basavanhalli (MD and CEO) Vinay Khanolkar (CEO - Engine Business) |
| Products | Engines, Farm Equipment, Spare Parts, Auxiliary Power and Construction Equipment (International) |
| Revenue | ₹16.19 billion (US$240 million) (2016)[1] |
| ₹1.74 billion (US$26 million) (2016)[1] | |
| ₹0.84 billion (US$12 million) (2016)[1] | |
| Total assets | ₹11.78 billion (US$180 million) (2016)[1] |
| Total equity | ₹8.6 billion (US$130 million) (2016)[1] |
| Website |
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Greaves Cotton Ltd. is a manufacturer of engines and construction equipment in India. Its shares are traded on the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) and the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).
The business was founded in 1859 by James Greaves and George Cotton. In 1947, the company was purchased by Lala Karam Chand Thapar of Thapar Group.[2]
Greaves Cotton Limited is one of India's leading engineering companies with core competencies in diesel & petrol engines, generator sets, and farm equipment. The company manufactures and markets a wide range of products covering these segments. Today, Greaves Cotton is a multi-product and multi-location company. Greaves sustains its leadership through seven manufacturing facilities which produce and provide parts through a network of marketing and service throughout the country. The manufacturing units are backed by in-house R&D centres. Greaves Cotton's wide range of industrial products meet the requirements of core sectors in India and abroad. The company's business operations are divided into various businesses structured to ensure maximum focus on each business area. These areas include engine business, product business, aftermarket business and international business. In the recent years, Greaves has made rapid strides towards globalization. The international business oversees business across the globe thereby widening the global footprint of the organisation. With its aftermarket support, Greaves Cotton has an extensive marketing and service network across India through regional and sales offices and over 1200 dealers, who keep the company in touch with its customers.
Specialties
The company specializes in diesel engines, petrol engines, gasoline engines, diesel pump sets, petrol and kerosene engines, gensets, farm equipment, aftermarket products, and construction equipment. In 2013, the company announced that it would be selling road construction equipment, including stationary concrete pumps.
AUTOMOTIVE ENGINES
Highly fuel efficient, Greaves lightweight diesel / gasoline engines are ideal for Automotive Engines applications like 3-wheelers and small 4-wheeled commercial vehicles. These engines with high power-to-weight ratio are also used extensively for portable agricultural pumpsets, gensets, small boats, construction equipment and host of other applications. Available in a range of 4-11 HP models, Greaves light diesel engines are manufactured at ISO 9001 certified Units in Aurangabad and Ranipet.
GREAVES POWER
Greaves manufactures diesel generating sets in a wide range from 2.5KVA to 500KVA. The products are manufactured at its Chakan plant, an ISO 9001-2000 certified facility crafted specifically for usages per varied international standards.
The generating sets, branded as "Greaves Power", are known for their reliability and economical operating cost, and are well supported with genuine parts availability and service capability thru 100+ strong dealer network.
Our R&D facility is equipped with the most advanced technology, cutting-edge equipment and latest software for design, development and upgrading of engines, systems and controls.
We produce and supply superior quality products and services for different market segments including real estate, construction, IT / ITES, retail, hotels, hospitals, banking and finance, railways, manufacturing and process industries
With decades of experience, we understand the needs of our customers across various applications and offer them complete and customized power solutions in the form of load study, product customisation, installation of gensets, periodic maintenance, after-sales services and easily available low cost spares and repair.
FARM EQUIPMENT
Greaves manufactures lightweight petrol, diesel / kerosene engines in the 1-4 HP range and portable eco-friendly silent Gensets in the 1.4 KVA range at its ISO 9001 certified Petrol Engines Unit, in Chennai.
The engines are most popular for agriculture applications like power sprayer, pumpsets and power reapers. Greaves is the trusted name across rural India for lightweight, portable pumpsets. Greaves has stepped up its contribution to Indian agriculture with the launch of Greaves Power Tiller, manufactured by a leading manufacturer in China and customized to suit Indian conditions.
Greaves International Business In the recent years, Greaves Cotton has made rapid strides towards globalization. The Greaves International Business overseas business across the globe thereby widening the global footprint of the organisation with a wide presence in strategic markets of Middle East, Africa, South and South East Asia, with Middle East and East Africa accounting for over 60% of its export revenue. Catering to critical segments such as auto, power, construction and farm equipment, the International Business specialises in offering customised products as per market requirements.
INDUSTRIAL ENGINES
Wherever an engine is required to power equipment that is needed to pump, dig, pull, push, carry or move, Greaves can tailor a power pack solution exactly to the need. Greaves offers a wide range of versatile, fuel-efficient engines in the range of 1-700 HP for a host of applications in:
Marine Agricultural Equipment Fire fighting pumpsets Mining & Construction Material Handling (Cranes, Forklifts) Rail Cars, Road Sweepers etc These engines are manufactured at state of the art manufacturing facilities in Pune, Aurangabad (Maharashtra) Gummidipoondi and Ranipet (Tamil Nadu).
SPARES
Greaves After-Market Business is a new vertical which will consolidate the entire gamut of its after-market initiatives. The Aftermarket will gratify to all business requirements related to service and parts support. This will comprise the following business units:
Engine Business
Product Business
Construction Equipment Business
Greaves Cotton through this vertical has an extensive marketing and service network across India through Regional and Sales offices and over 1200 dealers, who keep the company in touch with its customers anytime, anywhere.
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 http://www.greavescotton.com/Upload/Investor/greaves_ufr_mar312016.pdf
- ↑ "Milestones". Greaves Cotton Ltd. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
- ↑ "Greaves to sell road construction machines". The Hindu BusinessLine. 6 July 2013. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
- ↑ Dilip Kumar Jha (13 July 2013). "Greaves Cotton launches high capacity pumps". Business Standard. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
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