Panasonic India targets Rs.3,000 crore turnover

by mymazaa.com

Consumer durables firm Panasonic India aims to almost triple its turnover to cross the Rs.3,000 crore mark by the end of the 2010-11 fiscal, a top company official said here Wednesday.

The company, a subsidiary of Osaka-headquartered Japanese firm Panasonic Corp, had a turnover of Rs.1,100 crore in the previous fiscal, said Suresh Kumar Bandi, head of sales and marketing (air-conditioning business), Panasonic India.

Speaking to newspersons after the eastern India launch of the company’s Cube air-conditioners, Bandi said western India accounted for 37 percent of the company’s AC sales.

“West India … is followed by the south at 30 percent while the east contributes only six percent,” he said.

The company had a five percent market share of split air-conditioners in the country, he said.

It plans to set up a new air-conditioner manufacturing plant in its proposed technopark in Haryana, he said.

The company had earlier said it will pump in Rs.1,400 crore in the technopark as well as a branding exercise in the next three years.

The technopark is expected to be ready by August 2012.