Nippo

Nippo is a company that creates batteries, Manufactured by Nippo Batteries Co. Ltd. (Indo National Limited) in India. The corporate office is in the South-Indian city of Chennai.The company spans 33 offices through the country. Nippo batteries reach millions of homes through 35 distributors, over 2800 stockists, 900 vans and 500 autos covering over 5 lakh retail outlets. Nippo is the second largest dry cell battery manufacturer in India, with 28% of the market in 2006.^[1]

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History

Nippo was created in 1972, as a combined venture with Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. of Japan. Since then, Nippo has been supplying most of India with its high quality dry cell batteries.

Production

Nippo has two main production facilities for its batteries, Nellore and Tada both in Andhra Pradesh.

Board of Directors

Justice Mr. S. Natarajan-Chairman

Mr. M. Sato-Director

Mr. P. Obul Reddy-Managing Director

Mr. Y. Yokoe-Director

Mr. S. Soematsu-Joint Managing Director

Mr. V. R. Gupte-Director

Mr. S. R. Jiwarajka-Joint Managing Director

Dr. Dave Surendra-Director

Mr. Masaaki Shiga-Wholetime Director

Achievements

Nippo has received many prestigious awards. One of their Products, Nippo Gold was rated the 'Best Performing AA cell' in the country. Some of the other awards are mentioned below:

1999 - Special Award for Environmental Contributions form MEI, Japan

1999 - Bronze in PR contest, 1999 for corporate film, 'Powering Ahead'

1998 - Bharat Ratna Dr. Visvesvaraya Industrial award in large and Medium scale category from AIMO

1997 - Energy Conservation award from MBI, Japan

1996 - Management Excellence silver from MEI, Japan

1996 - Overseas Advertising bronze from MEI, Japan

1995 - Management Excellence gold from MBI, Japan

1994 - Management Excellence silver from MBI, Japan

1994 - Overseas Advertising merit award from MEI, Japan

1993 - Industrial Peace and Harmony award from GOAP

1989 - Best Management award from GOAP

1989, 94, 96, 97 -Best Union award from GOAP

1984 - Overseas Advertising bronze from MEI, Japan

Products

Nippo manufactures many batteries of various types. Their products include:

UM-1S - Nippo Hyper, Nippo Super, Nippo Special, Nippo Super Smart, Nippo Hyper.

AA- Nippo Gold, Nippo Hyper, Nippo Super.

Apart from batteries Nippo also manufactures appliances mainly torches.

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