LTI USD Revenues Grow 5.8% QoQ And 8.5% YoY; Net Profit Up By 37.9% YoY

Larsen & Toubro Infotech (BSE code: 540005, NSE: LTI), a global technology consulting and digital solutions company, announced its Q3 FY21 results today.

In US Dollars:

▪ Revenue at USD 427.8 million; increase of 5.8% QoQ and 8.5% YoY

▪ Constant Currency Revenue increase of 5.3% QoQ and 7.4% YoY

In Indian Rupees:

▪ Revenue at INR 31,528 million; increase of 5.1% QoQ and growth of 12.2% YoY

▪ Net Income at INR 5,193 million; increase of 13.7% QoQ and growth of 37.9% YoY

“We are pleased to deliver a strong quarter with 5.8% QoQ growth in USD revenues. This has been driven by healthy growth momentum across our portfolio. We continue to see strong demand for cloud-based IT solutions. Our tier 1 level partnership with the hyperscalers enables us to work closely on client outcomes and go-to-market opportunities.

We are happy to announce two large deals with cumulative net new TCV of USD 278 million. We remain focused on building and scaling differentiated capabilities. A healthy deal pipeline and sustained client mining make us optimistic about the future,” says Sanjay Jalona, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director.

Recent Deal Wins

-  A UAE-based leader in digital transformation has selected LTI as its partner of choice to provide infrastructure and application operations support and maintenance for its existing and new customers. As part of the deal, LTI will also partner with end customers on their journey to cloud and transform operations to bring in best-shoring and automation.

-  A Global Fortune 500 energy company has chosen LTI as its primary partner for an application managed services agreement to create and consolidate a business-aligned IT services delivery platform across the organization and reduce total cost of ownership.

-  A company located in the U.S providing leading data-driven marketing, loyalty & payment solutions has selected LTI for customer-centric digital transformation initiatives to enhance customer experience, brand reputation, customer acquisition and retention and reduction in costs by virtue of streamlined operations.

-  An engineering, construction and mining company located in South East Asia has partnered with LTI to transform its procurement, sales, bidding, contracting and analytics functions using SAP to enable operational excellence, ensure data-driven insights and informed decision making across the organization.

-  LTI executed a license sale agreement for AI, Decisions and Catalog products on its Mosaic platform with a multinational banking and financial services company to bring about efficiency in their reporting with the regulators. Mosaic will serve as a unified data analytics platform enabling consolidation of all credit risk models and will be hosted in a hybrid cloud setup. As a part of the deal, LTI will be a one-stop shop providing the product as well as handling, deploying, integrating and testing services.

-  A leading European financial services firm has chosen LTI to manage its infrastructure operations through a leaner operating model and by leveraging the Mosaic platform to drive automation.

-  A leading commercial property and casualty insurance group based in Canada has selected LTI to consolidate and transform its policy administration systems and processes onto the Duck Creek platform to ensure streamlining of its operations.

-  A U.S. based real estate investment company has chosen LTI for providing application support, maintenance and development services along with key implementation initiatives to drive cost optimization and digital transformation.

Awards and Recognitions

-  LTI Recognized as a Leader in the ISG Provider Lens™ Digital Business – Solutions and Service Partners Report, US 2020

-  LTI Recognized as Leader and Star Performer in Everest Group's Application and Digital Services in Capital Markets PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2021

-  LTI positioned in 'Leaders' Quadrant within NelsonHall's Software Testing: Quality Engineering NEAT 2020

-  LTI Recognized as a Leader in the ISG Provider Lens™ Public Cloud — Solutions and Services Report, Nordics 2020

-  LTI recognized as a Leader in Everest Group Insurance Business Model Innovation Enablement Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2021

Other Business Highlights

-  LTI won in the Outstanding Value Category at the Honda Indirect Procurement Supplier 2020 Awards, US. The outstanding value category acknowledges suppliers providing the most value to Honda by recognizing the total cost of ownership

-  LTI is now an ‘Elite’ level partner of Snowflake, the data cloud company. LTI has also become the maiden partner for Snowcase - a program that Snowflake is launching to develop and market industry-specific solutions to accelerate cloud data transformation journey of enterprises

-  LTI is now a ‘Premier’ level partner of Google Cloud

-  LTI is now a ‘Platinum’ tier partner of IBM

-  LTI has partnered with Temenos to launch a Digital Banking Platform in the Nordic region

-  LTI was ranked among the top 50 companies (Rating ‘A’) in the BW BusinessWorld India rankings for Most Sustainable Companies 2020

About LTI

LTI (NSE: LTI) is a global technology consulting and digital solutions Company helping more than 400 clients succeed in a converging world. With operations in 31 countries, we go the extra mile for our clients and accelerate their digital transformation with LTI’s Mosaic platform enabling their mobile, social, analytics, IoT and cloud journeys. Founded in 1997 as a subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro Limited, our unique heritage gives us unrivalled real-world expertise to solve the most complex challenges of enterprises across all industries. Each day, our team of more than 30,000 LTItes enable our clients to improve the effectiveness of their business and technology operations and deliver value to their customers, employees and shareholders. Find more at http://www.Lntinfotech.com or follow us at @LTI_Global.

Numeric Expands Product Portfolio To Augment Its Growth In 3 Phase UPS; Launches Keor MOD, Award Winning UPS

Numeric, the leading UPS manufacturer and power quality solution provider in India, today announced the launch of the award winning 3 Phase modular UPS, Keor MOD. The product is designed to meet the needs of the IT, ITeS, data center, infrastructure and healthcare industry. 

With the launch of Keor MOD, Numeric steps up its growth plan in the 3 Phase market segment.  Speaking on the side-lines of the launch of Keor MOD, Palash Nandy, CEO, Numeric said “Keor MOD is a testimony to our two main growth pillars – Innovation and Smart solution. We have already gained a strong foothold in the 3 phase segment with our Keor series and this new product will further augment our product offer in the modular segment.” 

He further added “The data localisation policy and the new business normal have put the IT infrastructure on rapid growth gear. While the changing data consumption habits coupled with the burgeoning digital economy has put this sector on fast growth, the much expected 5G roll will further accelerate the growth providing a tremendous opportunity for us to position our wide range of solutions.” 

About Keor MOD, an UPS that is Far more than a UPS With Keor MOD, Numeric is redefining the standards of UPS from a rather dull black UPS to a stylish looking design coupled with performance.  Keor MOD has won the IF Award Design Award in 2019, which is an internationally established symbol for outstanding design achievements.  

Numeric had pioneered the front access concept, with the launch of its Keor series. Continuing the quest to bring innovative products, Keor MOD has a 10” display screen which can rotate inwards to 180°. First to innovate in the industry with this feature, this enables easy access and maintenance. The display screen features an easy to use interactive icon which allows easy navigation. 

The Keor MOD power module is the smallest 25 kW three phase module available in the market. Each power module in Keor MOD is an independent plug and play power module that serves as a three phase UPS with a nominal power of 25 kW in just 2 rack units.  Extensive research and use of latest generation components is behind the development of this three-phase power module with top performance levels in its category, minimising footprints and weights.

 Keor MOD scores high in performance and cost savings. In addition to high reliability and availability its compact footprint saves upto 75% of real estate space in comparison to other products. This gives a very low total cost of  ownership (TCO) for Keor MOD.  Keor MOD offers both scalability and flexibility, up to 20 power modules can be paralleled vertically and horizontally, in maximum up to 4 frames to deliver output of 500kW with redundancy. This directly translates into benefit of initial capital investment and allows customers to add Power modules as per the business growth and demand. 

Keor MOD is also designed to be an environmentally responsible product. Keor MOD comes with a PEP certification. PEP provides credible & transparent info about the constituents of the product. It provides manufacturer & product info, recyclability, environmental impacts during each phase of product life cycle. With the help of PEP, Customers can know the environmental impact of each of the product in their IT infra installations. PEP also help them achieve LEED green building certifications. 

All these features make Keor MOD, an UPS that is Far more than a UPS. Keor MOD is the ideal solution for small and medium data centers and other critical high-computing applications.     

Indian UPS market is forecast to grow at a CAGR of more than 5% by 2023. The increasing demand for power backup across commercial as well as industrial sectors coupled with growing digitalization and government’s smart city initiatives is further expected to push demand for UPS systems across the country in the coming years. 

About Numeric: 

Since 1984, Numeric has been enabling its clients to optimize their business with top notch power solutions that promise seamless and clean power with controlled environmental footprints. Defining Numeric’s vast support ecosystem are 5 world-class manufacturing units, 255+ accessible service locations and 900+ trained field technicians. Being ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 and SA 8000:2008 OHSAS 18001:2007 certified fuels our credibility further. Being part of Legrand Group since 2012, Numeric is now truly a GLOCAL company – ‘global’ expertise with deep ‘local’ market knowledge. 

With this knowledge, Numeric has succeeded in building a credible clientele base spread across different domains like BFSI, Government, Telecom, Healthcare, IT/ITES, Datacentres, Process Industries and SOHO. Apart from being the leading UPS manufacturer, it is Numeric’s consistent endeavour to be partners in our clients’ success stories. 

Tenable’s Analysis Of Data Breaches In 2020 Reveals Over 22 Billion Records Exposed

Analysis of breach data by Tenable’s Security Response Team (SRT) has revealed that, from January through October 2020, there were 730 publicly disclosed events resulting in over 22 billion records exposed worldwide. Thirty five percent of  breaches analyzed by Tenable were linked to ransomware attacks, resulting in tremendous financial cost, while 14% of breaches were the result of email compromises. One of the overarching themes of the threat landscape in 2020 was that threat actors relied on unpatched vulnerabilities in their attacks as well as chaining together multiple vulnerabilities as part of their attacks. This analysis has been published in Tenable’s 2020 Threat Landscape Retrospective (TLR) report which provides an overview of the key vulnerabilities disclosed or exploited in the 12 months ending December 31, 2020.

As organizations around the world prepare to face the new cybersecurity challenges looming in 2021, it’s crucial to pause and take a look back at the most critical vulnerabilities and risks from the past year. Understanding which enterprise systems are affected by the year’s vulnerabilities can help organizations understand which flaws represent the greatest risk. 

From 2015 to 2020, the number of reported common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) increased at an average annual percentage growth rate of 36.6%. In 2020, 18,358 CVEs were reported, representing a 6% increase over the 17,305 reported in 2019, and a 183% increase over the 6,487 disclosed in 2015. Prioritizing which vulnerabilities warrants attention is more challenging than ever. Two notable trends from the report are:

Pre-existing vulnerabilities in virtual private network (VPN) solutions — many of which were initially disclosed in 2019  Cr earlier — continue to remain a favorite target for cybercriminals and nation-state groups.

Web browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge are the primary target for zero-day  vulnerabilities, accounting for over 35% of all zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in the wild.

Fixing unpatched vulnerabilities, implementing strong security controls for remote desktop protocol, ensuring endpoint security is up-to-date and regularly performing security awareness training are steps organizations can take to thwart some of these attacks. 

“Every day, cybersecurity professionals in India and the rest of the world are faced with new challenges and vulnerabilities that can put their organisations at risk. The 18,358 vulnerabilities disclosed in 2020 alone reflects a new normal and a clear sign that the job of a cyber defender is only getting more difficult as they navigate the ever-expanding attack surface,” said Satnam Narang, Staff Research Engineer at Tenable. “A complex threat landscape, highly motivated threat actors and readily available exploit code translate into serious cyber attacks as reflected in this report. Many of the tactics used by bad actors are not sophisticated or didn’t require flexing too many mental muscles - making it more important than ever to patch vulnerabilities in a timely manner.”

“To adapt in a digital and distributed world, every industry sector and business model is reliant on technology. Hence, pausing for a retrospective provides cybersecurity professionals with an important opportunity to identify gaps and refine strategies to make their organisations more secure. In 2021, it’s essential that we have the tools, awareness and intelligence to effectively reduce risk and eliminate blind spots. It’s only through looking at where we’ve come from that we can effectively plan for what lies ahead,” he added.

Throughout the year, Tenable’s Security Response Team tracks and reports on vulnerabilities and security incidents, providing guidance to security professionals as they plan their response strategies. The team’s work gives them the opportunity to closely observe the ever-changing dynamics of the threat landscape. 

Note to editor:

Report methodology — This report was compiled based on Tenable’s analysis of:

Events over the course of 2020

Information from advisories published by U.S. government agencies 

Publicly available breach data from national and local news outlets, reporting on data breaches from January through October 2020.

You can find the full report available for download here, with key stats and 9 top takeaways summarised on pages 4-5. If  you’re interested in more detail on the report findings, Satnam Narang is available for a chat.

About Tenable

Tenable Inc. is a Cyber Exposure company. With over 30,000 organizations including more than 50 percent of the Fortune 500, more than 30 percent of the Global 2000 and large government agencies, the Tenable platform caters to the breadth of  visibility into cyber risk across IT, Cloud, IoT and OT environments and the depth of analytics to measure and communicate cyber risk in business terms to make better strategic decisions. Tenable has also extended its expertise in vulnerabilities by creating Nessus, to deliver the world’s first platform to see and secure any digital asset on any computing platform.

KKFI, Ultimate Kho Kho Introduces Scientific Training For Players

 

While the sporting world is still trying to find ways to make a comeback fully after the coronavirus outbreak, the Kho Kho Federation of India (KKFI) along with Ultimate Kho Kho (UKK) is all set to uplift the skillset of its players with the introduction of a revolutionary High-Performance Assessment and Scientific Analysis & Evaluation Programme--“Rise in Sports Excellence”—for the very first time.

During a rigorous camp of almost a month, scheduled from January 18 to February 16, 138 players, including 18 women players, will be monitored by vastly experienced experts at Manav Rachna Sports Science Centre in Faridabad and SGT University in Gurugram to develop a pool of athletes who are assessed, scientifically monitored and transformed to become champions of the game.    

The Union Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju along with Rajeev Mehta General Secretary, IOA and popular sporting personalities like India’s individual Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra, Sushil Kumar, only Indian to win consecutive Olympic medals, and top cricketers Suresh Raina and Mohammed Shami were present on Tuesday to inaugurate the coaching camp, where Kho Kho players have been selected from across the country for one of its kind scientific evaluation program.

The state of art expertise of the country’s top sports-tech institutes—Manav Rachna Sports Science Centre and SGT University, have been roped in to roll out this mammoth initiative.

“I have always believed sports science is the future of sports. To make India a sporting powerhouse, each sport needs to be developed, especially indigenous sports like Kho Kho which is a speed-reliant sport. The federation and Ultimate Kho Kho have done a commendable job in putting together such an exhaustive plan in such a short time. I congratulate Sudhanshuji (Mittal) as well as Amit Burman ji for lending their support. Indian sports need the backing of corporates and the presence of Amit ji surely is a step in the right direction,” said the Sports Minister Rijiju.

A 30-day camp will see players being monitored and analysed. The findings and parameters ranging from sports physiotherapy, rehabilitation, injury management, biomechanics, biokinetics, sports performance analysis, nutritional guidance and posture corrections will be put into action. The training will also mark the resumption of the sport after almost a 10-month gap. This training is compartmentalised in three phases—transition, preparatory and competitive one.  

“I would like to thank our Sports Minister, Mr Kiren Rijiju for coming here today and motivating the players. This camp will be a milestone for Sports Science and Technology in developing our players in many ways and am grateful for the support towards development by the Ministry, Sports Authority of India and Ultimate Kho Kho, our partners in this vision development. Our motive will be to create a large pool of players who can be developed into world-beaters and game ready for the upcoming challenges,” KKFI President Sudhanshu Mittal said.

The Ultimate Kho Kho has been instrumental in investing and developing this home-grown sport. Close to 200 crores investment commitment has been made by the league promoter and Dabur group Chairman, Amit Burman for the next five years. While a major share of the investment is focused on the growth and development of grassroots and initiation of this scientific programme will help to build excellence which is key for any sport and its growth, globally.

“I have always focused on thinking ahead of time and developing and promoting ideas into brands. Ultimate Kho Kho is no different as we envision excellence at the grassroots and take the game to the next level. For the game to develop it is key that we introduce technology and upgrade and tap the potentials of our players, make them champions and world beaters, backed with high performance training,” UKK Promoter Amit Burman said.

Adding on the innovations, Tenzing Niyogi, CEO, Ultimate Kho Kho said: “Kho Kho has a deep cultural connect with a massive fan base. Ultimate Kho Kho with its latent demand holds the promise of a blockbuster league. With the influx of sports science changing the dynamics of training in team sports, this camp will help develop the athletes to transform and become champions of the game. During the camp we are also planning to test a new sports technology for tag sports in order to bring ‘edge of the seat’ action for audiences.”

An exhibition match was played where sports celebrities were teamed up with the Kho Kho players as the teams rolled out the fast-paced format which played under the revamped rules that are to be introduced during the Kho Kho league, slated for end of the year. The culmination of the camp will see players participating in a five-day tournament consisting of eight teams divided into two pools where players’ speed and gameplay will also be tested along with agility and strength conditionings.

Yellow Messenger, Microsoft Strengthen Collaboration To Transform Voice Virtual Assistants

Yellow Messenger, the world’s leading conversational AI platform, has announced a collaboration with Microsoft to transform its voice automation solution using Azure AI Speech Services and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools. With this initiative, Yellow Messenger aims to increase the accuracy of its voice bot solutions and help enterprises across sectors in enhancing consumer experience automation. Under this collaboration, Microsoft and Yellow Messenger's R&D team will be working on building a more human-like voice assistant platform that is capable of understanding and responding on the basis of sentiment, dialect, and workflow.

According to industry estimates, 60-70% of overall business to customer interactions across the world take place through telephony today, while the rest is over chats and email. Conversational interfaces are changing how customers relate to brands and ‘voice’ is playing a key role in enabling smarter brand-to-consumer engagement. Through the collaboration with Microsoft, Yellow Messenger is enabling brands to increase their sophistication and usage of automated voice assistants for regular use.  Voice-based virtual assistants can be deployed to handle inbound and outbound calls, across real-time telephony and synchronous voice channels.

Raghu Ravinutala, CEO and Cofounder, Yellow Messenger said, “Voice, as compared to text, is a more complex channel due to multiple factors at play such as the real-time experience, varying accents by country and legacy architecture. Our collaboration with Microsoft’s Azure Speech Services is empowering us to build customised voice models that allow higher accuracy and better intent understanding. Our voice assistants can hold natural conversations in over 35 languages and their variants across channels and devices enabled by our speech-to-text(STT) and text-to-speech(TTS) cognitive services.”

According to Sashikumar Sreedharan, Managing Director – Microsoft India, “More human interactions mean new opportunities. Azure Cognitive Services help people interact simply and naturally with technology and make engagement with services more human, leading to increased customer satisfaction and loyalty. We believe our collaboration will help Yellow Messenger transform voice automation and enable enterprises across industries to take their customer relationships to a new level.”

Yellow Messenger has natively integrated Azure Cognitive Services on its platform, for improved customer experience and operational efficiency without compromising on security. This covers the following areas:

1. Accurate understanding and conversion of end customers’ voice to text across channels, using Azure’s real time Speech to Text (STT) translation capabilities for more intuitive interaction. Azure STT allows tailoring speech of recognition models to adapt to users’ speaking styles, expressions, and unique vocabularies, and also to accommodate background noises, accents, and voice patterns.  This is being implemented for customers across industries, including banking, FMCG and the public sector. 

2. Improved voice output for end customers on telephony and web channels, applying Azure Text to Speech (TTS) services. Following the processing of the user's inbound query, the bot converts the text back to speech and responds to the user in near real time in a natural, lifelike voice.

3. Building custom voice bot models using the Azure Speech stack for specific industry verticals such as banking for higher accuracy. 

4. Self-serve customer support - Two of India’s largest private banks are currently using Yellow Messenger’s voice virtual assistants for inbound and outbound customer service. Up to 65% support queries can be addressed and resolved by voice AI assistants so that customer care teams can focus on critical issues.

Yellow Messenger enables enterprises, in a rapidly booming digital economy, to shift from being digitized to delivering cognitive experiences. Through the platform, enterprises can build AI-workers to self-serve, support, sales, marketing, commerce, HR and IT on-demand, across chat, email, and voice channels.

Microsoft Cognitive Services is a collection of intelligent APIs that allow systems to see, hear, speak, understand, and interpret human needs using natural methods of communication. Developers can use these APIs to make their applications across platforms more intelligent, engaging, and discoverable. Available at www.microsoft.com/cognitive, it includes APIs on:

●       Vision: From faces to feelings, allow apps to understand images and video

●       Speech: Hear and speak to users by filtering noise, identifying speakers, and understanding intent

●       Language: Process text and learn how to recognize what users want

●       Knowledge: Tap into rich knowledge amassed from the web, academia, or your own data

●       Search: Locate relevant information among billions of web pages, images, videos, and news with the power of Bing APIs

About Yellow Messenger:

Yellow Messenger is named the world’s leading conversational AI platform by Gartner and G2 Crowd and is trusted by 500+ global enterprises like Bajaj Finserv, TATA AIG, Asian Development Bank, Domino’s, Schlumberger, Sephora, PepsiCo and BMW.

The platform builds chatbots as AI-workers for enterprises to self-serve - customer support, sales, marketing, commerce, HR, and IT, on-demand. The company has presence in over 27 countries across the world including the US, Europe, Brazil, UAE, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and India. Visit www.yellowmessenger.com for more information.

About Microsoft India:

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) is the leading platform and productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft set up its India operations in 1990. Today, Microsoft entities in India have over 11,000 employees, engaged in sales and marketing, research, development and customer services and support, across 11 Indian cities – Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, New Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune. Microsoft offers its global cloud services from local data centers to accelerate digital transformation across Indian start-ups, businesses, and government organizations.

Godrej Appliances Gets Recognized For Its Role In Protecting India Against Covid-19

* The brand was adjudged with India Health and Wellness Awards 2020 (Gold) by IHW Council – a testament of brand’s efforts towards excellence in Health and Wellness

Godrej & Boyce, the flagship company of the Godrej group today announced that its business unit Godrej Appliances, India's leading cooling expert, received the prestigious ‘India Health and Wellness Awards 2020 - Gold’ by Integrated Health and Wellness (IHW) Council under the ‘COVID Protection Project’ category, for its role in expediting cold storage unit supplies required for strengthening the Cold Chain in Public Health Care facilities where Covid vaccine will get stored and deployed. As the country prepares for what may be one of the biggest immunization drives in history, the brand is getting ready for providing an end-to-end solution for the Covid-19 Vaccine Cold Chain. 

Godrej Appliances recently won a tender for 11,856 units of state of art vaccine refrigerators and deep freezers under the Universal Immunization Programme by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. These advanced medical equipment are being delivered at various state depots across the nation at numerous government hospitals, district hospitals and health centers, strengthening the cold chain for the massive Covid-19 vaccination programme.

India Health and Wellness Awards 2020 - is a flagship initiative of the Integrated Health and Wellness (IHW) Council and it brings together the key government authorities, healthcare industry, international and national health & wellness organizations, social organizations, community leaders, innovators, technology providers, and influencers dedicated to the health and wellness of the people. Every year, the Integrated Health and Wellness (IHW) Council invites applications from across the country and recognizes remarkable and meaningful contributions to the health and wellbeing of mankind. 

The eminent jury members of the award were Mr. JVR Prasada Rao, Former Union Health Secretary, Dr. Atul Mohan Kochhar, Chief Executive Officer, NABH, Dr. Vijay Agarwal, President, CAHO, Dr. Ravi Mehrotra, CEO, ICMR Consortium, Dr. Hema Divakar, CEO, ARTIST and Dr. Y.K. Gupta, President, AIIMS, Bhopal; and was attended by the who’s who of the healthcare fraternity. 

Godrej & Boyce has been committed to serving the country especially in the trying pandemic times, through its efforts across its offerings – be it through medical components - Hospital Bed Actuators and  Electro-magnetic valves for ventilators, or through disinfectant devices aimed at keeping the population safer at home, or setting up socially distant offices to keep people safe at work; and is proud to serve the country with Made in India medical refrigerators and freezers, at a time when they are most needed.

While receiving the award, Jaishankar Natarajan, Associate Vice President and Head - New Business Development, Godrej Appliances said, “Over the years, Godrej Appliances has gained its expertise in refrigeration and has extended this further into the medical refrigeration domain. We are delighted that this expertise is proving to be useful today in times when the country needs a strong vaccine cold chain and are glad to be able to contribute to the cause. We take this opportunity to thank the entire team of Integrated Health and Wellness (IHW) Council for the appreciation. Through this project and beyond, together with the government and health workers, we are committed to provide last mile immunization for Covid-19 vaccine distribution, to safeguard millions of lives.”

About Godrej Appliances

Godrej Appliances, a business unit of the highly diversified Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd. is one of the leading Home Appliances players in India. Godrej was the first Indian Company in 1958 to manufacture Refrigerators and has since then, expanded its portfolio across many other categories like Washing Machines, Air Conditioners, Microwave Ovens, futuristic Thermo-electric cooling solutions, Air Coolers, Deep Freezers, highly specialized Medical Refrigerators and more recently, UVC Technology-Based Disinfecting devices and Dishwashers, all powered by the driving philosophy of 'Things made thoughtfully’/ ‘Soch Ke Banaya Hai’. 

This thought extends from human-centric design to planet centric design. Environment is a core value at Godrej Appliances. Both manufacturing units of Godrej Appliances’ - in Maharashtra and Punjab, became the first in the country to win the coveted Platinum Plus Green Co certification for its pioneering green manufacturing practices. 

The brand takes pride in not just its carefully designed products and environment-friendly technologies, but also best in class after-sales service delivered through over 680 service centers and more than 4500 SmartBuddy service experts spread all over the country.

RB Re-launches Colin With The Added Benefit Of Germ Removal

• Promises 99.9% germ removal alongside delivering impeccable shine

RB (Reckitt Benckiser), relaunched Colin, India’s No.1 glass and household cleaner brand in an all-new avatar today. The iconic Colin brand has been relaunched by RB India keeping in mind the current requirements of the Indian consumer. The new Colin not only delivers on its impeccable shine promise, but also provides its consumers with the added benefit of removing 99.9% germs from multiple surfaces at home. 

Hygiene and disinfection have become an essential part of consumers’ daily lives. An extensive consumer research found that “Does Colin Disinfect” was one of the most searched sentences on the brand. The research further highlighted that consumers were looking at a trusted brand like Colin to cater to their growing needs for cleaning and germ removal. 

Ms. Sukhleen Aneja, CMO & Marketing Director, RB Hygiene, South Asia, said, “For decades Colin has been a household name with unparalleled equity on maintaining shine across multiple surfaces. Our research found that consumers were looking for a superior multipurpose cleaning product that could also help keep surfaces germ free. The new product has been launched keeping in mind the evolving needs of Indian consumers. Colin will now be able to provide its consumers with superior cleaning, sparkling shine and 99.9% removal of germs on multiple surfaces.”

“The all-new Colin is an innovation based on extensive consumer research and understanding their needs for germ protection. It has undergone multiple tests to ensure that the product delivers on the amazing shine the brand is known for, but also ensures 99.9% germ removal across surfaces”, says Dr. Skand Saksena, Director-R&D, RB Hygiene, South Asia.

For decades Colin has been synonymous with providing impeccable shine and has been differentiated by its iconic blue colour trigger bottle. To provide easy access to its consumers, Colin in its new avatar will be available across all e-commerce platforms, Modern and Traditional Trade outlets.

ABOUT RB:

RB* is driven by its purpose to protect, heal and nurture in a relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We fight to make access to the highest-quality hygiene, wellness and nourishment a right, not a privilege, for everyone. RB is proud to have a stable of trusted household brands found in households in more than 190 countries. These include Enfamil, Nutramigen, Nurofen, Strepsils, Gaviscon, Mucinex, Durex, Scholl, Clearasil, Lysol, Dettol, Veet, Harpic, Cillit Bang, Mortein, Finish, Vanish, Calgon, Woolite, Air Wick and more.  20 million RB products a day are bought by consumers globally. RB’s passion to put consumers and people first, to seek out new opportunities, to strive for excellence in all that we do, and to build shared success with all our partners, while doing the right thing, always is what guides the work of our 40,000+ diverse and talented colleagues worldwide.