Siemens India Home Appliances

(He recently joined the organization…)

Germany's Bosch and Siemens Home Appliances plans to localise its items for Asia and is exploring choices to offer entry-level services and products such as for instance single-door fridges and top-loading automatic washers the very first time globally, to become a top-five player in the nation's kitchen appliances market.

Europe's largest kitchen appliances manufacturer also intends to develop the marketplace for underpenetrated groups like dish washers in the country. "We may happen a late entrant in Asia, but fully devoted to be a substantial player by making high opportunities as required, " stated Gunjan Srivastava, managing director and chief executive officer at Bosch and Siemens appliances for the home India (BSH Asia).

Srivastava may be the first Indian to lead your local functions of BSH Asia. He recently joined up with the business from audio items manufacturer Sennheiser Electronics. Before which he had a lengthy stint at Philips.

BSH Asia's 50-million manufacturing facility near Chennai, which went on stream recently, is promoting a range of localised front-loading automatic washer. These items will hit the market later this thirty days. "we have been currently the 4th largest in front-loading automatic washer with 910per cent share, which we want to double in next 12-18 months, " said Srivastava.

The front-loading washer part is 25per cent by value of the whole market.BSH Asia can also be presently contained in dish washers, high-end fridges and cooking area items also it intends to localise many of these in stages. The Chennai plant can be a global hub catering to the Asia Pacific areas. Srivastava stated the company plans to come into entry-level products as long as it could develop a differentiating technology, since such a foray can really help it get share of the market which can only help to raised profitability.

BSH sell its services and products under two companies - Bosch and Siemens. The former will be placed as a size premium brand name in Asia, competing against the Korean duo, LG and Samsung, whilst the latter lies in the premium-end. The dimensions of the Indian consumer electronics and home appliances market is expected at around Rs 40, 000 crore.