What is Crompton Greaves Mumbai?
Crompton Greaves is a multinational electrical products company, based in India. It is a publicly owned company which is engaged in designing, manufacturing and distributing a wide range of consumer products, industrial and power systems such as switchgear products, LV switches and panels, high and low voltage AC and DC motors, traction motors, alternators and control electrics. Crompton Greaves is one of the country's largest private companies. The company was formed in the year 1878. Crompton Greaves has operations in many countries across the globe. In India, its sales offices are located at New Delhi, Kolkata, Jalandhar, Lucknow, Kochin, Chennai, Secundarabad, Baroda, Ahmedabad, Bhubaneshwar, Nagpur, Raipur, Indore and Pune. A British electrical engineer, Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton, founded the company under the name R.E.B. Crompton and Company. In 1927, it joined hands with F.A. Parkinson and as a result, the Crompton Parkinson Limited was established. In August 1966, Crompton Parkinson Limited and Greaves Cotton merged together, which resulted in the formation of Crompton Greaves. In March of 2009, the company purchased the 41% assets of Avantha Power and Infrastructure Limited. The head office of the company is situated in Mumbai.