Royal Philips Electronics N.V. (KPENV) is one of the world's biggest electronics companies and Europe's largest. It is a global leader in color television sets, lighting, electric shavers, color picture tubes for televisions and monitors, and one-chip TV products. It is active in more than 60 countries in the areas of lighting, consumer electronics, domestic appliances, components, semiconductors, and medical systems. Philips first started its operations in India in 1930 with the sales of lamps.

The company entered the manufacturing arena in 1938 with the setting up of a lamp-manufacturing unit in Calcutta. In addition to its presence in the lighting business, Philips also went into the manufacture of Radio receivers. Within a short period Philips products became a household name in the country.

Over the years Philips India set-up a number of manufacturing facilities and sales offices at various places in the country. Today, Philips has 7 manufacturing sites at Kalwa (near Mumbai), Pune, Calcutta and Chandigarh. Philips has a Software Center at Bangalore which develops embedded software for various products and components of Philips.

The company has commercial / sales offices in the metro towns. Philips in India represents business operations in Lighting, Consumer Electronics, Domestic Appliances & Personal Care, Semiconductors, Components and Medical Systems. The combination of strong brand equity, an unmatched range of internationally current products and a widespread network has taken

Philips India to a leading position amongst the top 500 companies operating in India. The company's approach of "Let's Make Things Better" is reflected in the products, services and activities.


The main businesses of Philips in India are:

Lighting: The product clusters in this group are Lamps, Luminaires, Lighting Electronics & Gears and Automotive Lamps.

Consumer Electronics: covers the businesses of Audio, Televisions, DVD, Computer Monitors & Peripherals, Speech Recognition Software, Digital Network Devices (Set-top boxes), Tapes & Accessories. Domestic Appliances & Personal Care Products - Kitchen tabletop products such as Mixers-Grinders, Toasters, Ovens (OTG); Personal grooming: men's and ladies' shavers, Hair dryers & stylers; and Garment Care: Electric Irons.

Components: The group manages businesses of Picture tubes, Monitor tubes, CD/ DVD drives, Tuners, Flyback Transformer, Remotes & Mobile display systems, finding applications in Televisions, Audio, DVD/VCD, PC Monitors, Set-top boxes & Mobile Phones.

Semiconductors: Semiconductors business is in a unique position to serve the markets of consumer & entertainment electronics - audio and video, advance communications, automotive and multimedia. This business offers specialised devices as well as a broad portfolio of commodity and industrial microcontrollers, logic and discretes devices.

Medical Systems: One of the key players in the Healthcare equipment and solutions market, it offers a wide range in X-Ray, Cath Labs, CT, MR, Imaging IT, Ultrasound, Gamma Cameras, Positron Imaging Tomography, Echocardiography, ECG, Patient Monitoring, Resuscitation and Home Care.

Philips has a workforce of around 230,000 worldwide and about 6000 employees of Philips in India are teamed to make Philips the "Customers' First Choice" in all its activities. Supporting this is the strong channel network of dealers. In its journey towards Business Excellence and to be the Customers' First Choice, the focus on Quality has always been accorded the highest place in the company. All the manufacturing units are certified for ISO standards. The manufacturing units are also certified for ISO 14001, which endorses their maintaining an environment management system. A number of businesses have qualified for the Philips Quality Award (PQA) - which is the Philips Quality Standard towards World-class quality.