V-Guard Industries Ltd, is an Indian electricals and home appliances manufacturer, headquartered in Kochi and the largest in the state of Kerala with an annual turnover of billion ( million) in financial year 2017–18. The company manufactures

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Kochouseph Chittilappilly Kochouseph Thomas Chittilappilly (born 27th March, 1957) is an Indian business magnate, writer, investor and philanthropist. He is the founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of V-Guard Industries and a chain of amusement parks called Won ...

as a small voltage stabilizer manufacturing unit. Kochouseph Chittilappilly also founded other establishments held as subsidiaries such as V-Star Creations, an Indian manufacturer of innerwear for men, women, and children, and Wonderla, a chain of amusement parks in South India.The Hindu BusinessLine. Stock Insight: V-Guard Industries.
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History

V-Guard is a consumer goods company with diversified product offerings. Headquartered in the city of Kochi, Kerala, the company has over 500 distributors, 40,000 retailers and 31 branches across India as of March 2019. It is listed with the NSE and BSE since 2008. Over the years V-Guard has sold into domestic, industrial and agricultural electronic goods and appliances category taking the total company revenue to over crore in 2016–17 The company started in 1977, when Kochouseph Chittilappilly set out to build a brand in the Indian electric and electronic goods industry The company started with a small manufacturing unit for voltage stabilizers, a capital of and two employees. The Kangaroo logo was created by artist V. A. Sreekandan (Mani). The company's current managing director, Mithun Chittilappilly is a Post Graduate in Management from the University Of Melbourne, Australia. In the year 2006, he joined V-Guard as the executive director and in 2012, he was appointed as the managing director of the company. Mithun Chittilappilly has previously worked with leading MNCs like Deloitte &

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. Chairman and founder, Kochouseph Chittilappilly was born in 1950 in Thrissur, Kerala, into a family traditionally engaged in agriculture. He holds a master's degree in Physics and began his career as a Supervisor in an electronics company. He is one of the founder promoters and was also the acting managing director of the company till in April 2012, he passed the baton on to his son Mithun Chittilappilly.

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