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Wednesday, November 07, 2007


 

Economy

   Videocon International Ltd.


   

Shri Nandlal Madhavlal Dhoot, the founder of the Videocon Group. The company currently manufactures Color TVs, Black & White TVs and Audio products. At its modern plant at Chitegaon and Aurangabad, the Company has also undertaken complete backward integration to manufacture all critical and important components of its products, such as Electronic Tuners, FBTs, ATDMs and Deflection Yokes, thereby reducing costs, ensuring quality control and becoming vertically integrated. It has set up a unit at Gandhinagar in Gujarat for manufacturing Black & White TV picture Tubes.

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 CIA Fact Book

 Venugopal Dhoot

 

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