Kothari Group consolidates operations

Chennai-based telecom, data cabling and electrical & intelligent building
management solutions distributor Kothari Group of Com­panies have consoli­dated
their operations by forming a single company with the name of Kothari Electrical
and Electronics.

Earlier the group had three different companies called Kothari Brothers,
Industrial Enterprises and Kothari Cabletronics, where Industrial Enter­prises
was dealing with telecom cables and Kothari Cabletronics was dealing with
structured cabling solutions, both active and passive. Now all the three
entities have been merged together and the group has floated Kothari Electrical
and Electronics, which would be having three individual divisions dealing with
telecom, data structure cabling and electrical & intelligent building management
solutions (IBMS).

“Kothari Brothers was incorporated in 1979 by LM Kothari for mainly focusing
on telecom and electrical cables. Then in 1981, the group floated Industrial
Enterprises, which was particularly focusing on telecom cables only. Slowly the
group opened branches in Bengaluru and Hyderabad, and formed another company
called Kothari Cabletronics, which was totally focusing on structured cabling
solutions. Now we have consolidated all these companies into one so that it will
enable the company to have complete range of cabling solutions,” informed TE
Goverdhan, Head - Sales Operations, Kothari Electrical and Electronics.

Being present in Benguluru, Hyderabad and Chennai, Kothari is dealing in the
Kerala market through an appointed distributor. Now the company aims to mull a
pan-India presence by expanding its operations in Delhi and Kolkata within next
six months. The group posted a turnover of Rs 40 crore during the last fiscal
and is aiming for a growth of about 20-25 percent, Goverdhan informed.

The company also plans to implement SAP in the organization to have a better
logistics. Claiming that the organization is known for sound technical knowledge
on the cabling solutions, Goverdhan said that the company has a team to take
care of the trouble shooting operations as a value addition to the customers.

On the structured cabling front, the company has tie-ups with ADC Krone,
Systimax, MRO-TEK, RAD, TVS Net, Cisco, Molex, AMP, Netgear; on the telecom
(carrier) front,

the company has tied up with ADC Krone, Delton Finolex and on the electrical and
IBMS, it is associated with Polycab, Delton, Mivision, Sathyam cables, etc.