BPL Group
Believe in the Best
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| Industry | Electronics |
| Founded | Palakkad, Kerala, India (1963) |
| Headquarters | Dynamic House, Church Street, Bangalore, Karnataka, India |
| Products | Medical equipment, televisions, refrigerators, washing machines, microwaves & audio equipment |
| Revenue | ₹118.50 crore (US$18 million) |
| ₹90 crore (US$13 million) | |
| ₹77 crore (US$11 million) (Extraordinary income inclusive) | |
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Number of employees
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around 250 |
| Website | www.bpl.in |
British Physical Laboratories, d/b/a BPL Ltd., is an Indian electronics company. It makes health care equipment. It was founded in 1963 in Palakkad, Kerala, and is headquartered at Bangalore, Karnataka.
British Physical Laboratories was founded in 1963, during the Licence Raj, by TPG Nambiar in Palakkad, Kerala, as a company for manufacturing hermetically sealed precision panel meters for the defence forces. Nambiar had worked in the United Kingdom and United States, and when he returned to India, he desired to create a company that manufactured high-quality electronic products, and he wanted to make BPL a household name.
BPL initially expanded its medical product ranges to include electrocardiographs and patient-monitoring systems. After the 1982 Asian Games, BPL expanded its range further and manufactured colour televisions and video cassette recorders, and later refrigerators, batteries and other consumer electrical equipment.
The company headquarters was moved to Dynamic House, Church Street, Bangalore. From medical electronics, it expanded into consumer electronics, telecommunications, soft energy and electronic components.
From 1980 onwards, when the industrial licensing was relaxed, BPL began manufacturing televisions and telecommunications equipment, demonstrating its potential and future business area. It began collaborating with the Japanese Sanyo Electric Company in the early 1980s with a technology-transfer agreement. In the early 1990s, after globalisation and liberalization of the Indian economy, competition entered the market. BPL retained its strong presence and growth rate. During the late 1990s, the company's annual revenue peaked at ₹4,300 crore (equivalent to ₹140 billion or US$2.0 billion in 2016).
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