Videocon Group

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Videocon Industries Limited.
Type Private
ISIN INE703A01011
Industry Conglomerate
Founded1979;44 years ago (1979)
Founder Venugopal Dhoot [1]
Headquarters
Mumbai, Maharashtra
,
India
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
 Venugopal Dhoot
(Chairman & MD) [1]
Products
RevenueDecrease2.svg₹12,828.6 crore
(US$1.95 billion) (2017) [2]
Decrease2.svg₹1,915.67 crore
(US$291 million) (2017) [2]
Total assets ₹35,738.5 crore
(US$5.43 billion) (2017) [2]
Total equity ₹8,391.07 crore
(US$1.27 billion) (2017) [2]
Owner Vedanta Resources
Number of employees
10,000 (2012)
Website videoconindustriesltd.com

Videocon Industries Limited is an Indian multinational conglomerate, headquartered in Mumbai. [3] The company was founded in 1979, by Venugopal Dhoot. The group had 17 manufacturing sites in India and plants in Mainland China, Poland, Italy and Mexico. It was the third largest picture tube manufacturer in the world [4] valued at US$5.5 billion. [5]

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The company stopped trading and entered corporate insolvency proceeding in June 2018. In June 2021, NCLT approved Vedanta Group's bid to take over Videocon, paving way for the new ownership. [6]

Early years

In 1985, Aurangabad based Nandlal Madhavlal Dhoot founded and incorporated Videocon International with a goal of manufacturing 1 lakh TV sets per year. "Videocon became the first company to bring colour TVs in India," claims Anirudh Dhoot, the founder's grandson (Venugopal Dhoot's son) and Videocon's current director. [7]

Corporate profile

The Videocon group's core areas of business are consumer electronics and home appliances. They diversified into areas such as DTH, power and oil exploration.

Consumer electronics

In India, the group sold consumer products like colour televisions, washing machines, air conditioners, refrigerators, microwave ovens and many other home appliances, through a multi-brand strategy with the largest sales and service network in India.

Since the entry of Korean Chaebols and their rising popularity in the Indian market, Videocon from a stand-point of market leader has seen a slow decline to become a no. 3 player in India. The company continued to do well in the washing machine and refrigerator segment. [8]

Mobile phones

In November 2009, Videocon launched its new line of mobile phones. [9] Videocon has since launched a number of handsets ranging from basic colour FM phones to high-end Android devices. In February 2011, Videocon Mobile Phones launched the hitherto unknown concept of 'Zero' paise (1 paisa is the 100th unit of 1 Indian Rupee) per second with bundled SIM cards of Videocon mobile services for 7 of its handset models. In July 2015, Videocon Mobiles launched its own flagship smartphone Videocon Infinium Z51+ in India. [10] On 7 June 2016, Videocon Mobile launched its new smartphone 'Videocon Cube3 V50290' [11] in India. [12]

Videocon Petroleum had 25% stake in Ravva oil field which is operated by Cairn India in Andhra Pradesh. [13]

Acquisition of CPT arm of Thomson SA

Videocon acquired the colour picture tube (CPT) businesses from Thomson S.A. of France having manufacturing facilities in Poland, Italy, Mexico and China along with support research and development facilities in the fiscal year 2005. [14] [15]

Decline

In 2018, following losses in its oil businesses, the company entered insolvency proceedings. [16]

Controversy with ICICI loan fraud

On 4 October 2018, Chanda Kochhar, the ex MD and CEO of ICICI Bank had to step down from her position following allegations of corruption in sanctioning loans to Videocon. [17] Amidst investigations related to Videocon bad loans, she was forced by the board of ICICI Bank to take indefinite leave. The Central Bureau of Investigation named Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar as beneficiaries in the financial fraud between June 2009 and October 2011. Venugopal Dhoot, the promoter of Videocon had fraudulently transferred part of the loan received from ICICI Bank to the Kochhars' business entreprise [18] after Chanda Kochhar, Sandeep Bakhshi became the full time Managing Director and CEO of ICICI Bank. [17] [19]

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