V-Guard Industries Ltd, is an

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s and home appliances

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, headquartered in

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and the largest in the state of

Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South Ca ...

with an annual turnover of billion ( million) in

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2017–18. The company manufactures voltage stabilizers,

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, electric

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, solar water heaters,

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and UPSs. It was founded in 1977 by

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 V-Star Creations is an Indian manufacturer of inner wear. It is the subsidiary of V-Guard IndustriesPublic disclosure of V-Guard http://www.sebi.gov.in/dp/vguardfinal.pdf V-Star Creations was founded in 1995 by Sheela Kochouseph, the wife of K ...

, an Indian manufacturer of innerwear for men, women, and children, and

Wonderla Wonderla is the largest chain of amusement parks in India. It is owned and operated by Wonderla Holidays Limited which is headquartered near Bidadi, from Bengaluru, Karnataka. It operates 3 amusement parks in Kochi, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad. ...

, 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

, 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

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. Chairman and founder, Kochouseph Chittilappilly was born in 1950 in

Thrissur Thrissur (), formerly Trichur, also known by its historical name Thrissivaperur, is a city and the headquarters of the Thrissur district in Kerala, India. It is the third largest urban agglomeration in Kerala after Kochi and Kozhikode, and t ...

, 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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