Summary
Kent RO Systems is an Indian healthcare products company headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. It makes water purifiers based on the process of reverse osmosis purification.
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| Company type | Public |
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| Industry | Consumer Durables, Healthcare |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Founder | Mahesh Gupta |
| Headquarters | Noida, India |
Area served | Worldwide[1] |
Key people | Mahesh Gupta (Chairman) |
| Website | kent |
Over the years the company has diversified into other products such as air purifiers, vacuum cleaners, vegetable and fruit purifiers as well as water softeners.[2] The company exports to SAARC countries, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe. It expects a contribution of 15% of total turnover to come from exports in the near future.[3] The company won the Golden Peacock Eco Innovation Award for its contribution in developing innovative water purifying technology and preventing environment degradation in 2007.[4] In 2019, Kent RO Systems received the best domestic water purifier award at the Water Digest Water Awards organized at the Lalit, New Delhi.[5]
Facility edit
Kent has its manufacturing base in Roorkee (Uttarakhand) which is spread across 400,000 sq. ft and has an annual capacity of 1 million units. Its technology is validated by UNESCO and certified by other organizations such as NSF, WQA, TUV and ISO but some are made in China .[6]
Turnover edit
Kent sells more than 225,000 reverse osmosis purifiers every year and holds around 40% market share in India. Its annual turnover in 2010 was ₹250 crore. Kent sold about 4,500,000; unit in 2015. About 80% of its revenues are from its reverse osmosis purifiers. The company has sold over a million units to date[3][7][8]
In Aug 2020, Kent annual turnover in 2020 was 1200 crore, with 20% of growth rate..[9][10]
References edit
- ^ Mitra, Amit (10 April 2013). "Kent launches new water purifier in Hyderabad". Retrieved 9 January 2016.
- ^ About Kent RO TheSmartCEO
- ^ a b 'Kent RO plans major foray in South India'
- ^ Eco Innovation Award
- ^ ANI (14 March 2019). "Kent RO receives the Best Domestic Water Purifier Award 2019 | Business Standard News". Business Standard India. Business-standard.com. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
- ^ "Mahesh Gupta, Kent RO Systems". growthinstitute.in. Archived from the original on 5 February 2014. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
- ^ SmartCEO - Magazine - Growth Enterprise - Water, Water, Everywhere
- ^ Turnover
- ^ Madhusudan, KUmar (21 August 2020). "Annual turnover 2020". www.kent.co.in/about-us. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
- ^ "Kent annual turnover". 21 August 2021.
External links edit
- Official website
