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HCL Enterprise

Public
Type BSE: 500179
BSE: 532281

Industry IT Services

Founded August 11, 1976

Delhi metropolitan area

Headquarters
Noida, India

Shiv Nadar, Founder-Chairman and Chief

Strategy Officer, HCL Technologies
Roshni Nadar, CEO HCL Corp.[1]
Ajai Chowdhry - Founder-Chairman and
Key people
CEO, HCL Infosystems , Vineet Nayar -
CEO, HCL Technologies. Jagadeshwar
Gattu- Vise President of HCL. Prateek
Dharashiokar - Associate Manager ERS

Revenue ▲ US$5.3 billion (2009)

Employees 71,000+ (quadrant june 10, 2010)

Website HCL.in
The HCL Enterprise is an electronics, computing and information technology company.
Based in Noida, India, the company comprises two publicly listed companies, HCL
Technologies and HCL Infosystems.

HCL was founded in 1976 by Shiv Nadar, Arjun Malhotra, Subhash Arora, Ajai Chowdhry,
DS Puri, & Yogesh Vaidya. HCL was focused on addressing the IT hardware market in India
for the first two decades of its existence with some sporadic activity in the global market.

On termination of the joint venture with HP in 1996, HCL became an enterprise which
comprises HCL Technologies (to address the global IT services market) and HCL
Infosystems (to address the Indian and APAC IT hardware market). HCL has since then
operated as a holding company.

Contents
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 1 History
 2 HCL Technologies
 3 HCL Infosystems Ltd.
 4 Environmental record
 5 References
 6 External links

[edit] History
In 1976, Shiv Nadar, Arjun Malhotra, Subhash Arora, Badam Kishore Kumar, T.V
Bharadwaj & Arun Kumar H started Microcomp Limited. The focus of the company was
design and manufacturing of scientific calculators. The venture provided its founders money
to start a company that focused on manufacturing computers. In the earliar HCL stands for
Hindustan Computers Limited but now HCL is only one name. HCL received support from
the Uttar Pradesh government to setup manufacturing in Noida.

In 1981, NIIT was started to cater to the increasing demand in computer education. By early
2000s, Nadar divested his stake in this venture.[2][3]

[edit] HCL Technologies

Main article: HCL Technologies

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HCL Technologies is a global IT Services company headquartered in Noida, a suburb of

Delhi, India led by Mr Vineet Nayar, HCL Technologies, along with its subsidiaries, had
consolidated revenues of US$ 5.3 billion, as of quadrant june 10,2010, and employed more
than 71,000 workers. HCL offers IT solutions, remote infrastructure management,
Engineering and R&D Services. The company provides services across many industries.

[edit] HCL Infosystems Ltd.

HCL Infosystems Ltd.,[4] a listed subsidiary of HCL, is an India-based hardware and systems
integrator. It has a presence in 170 locations and 300 service centres throughout India. Its
manufacturing facilities are based in Chennai, Pondicherry and Uttarakhand. It is
headquartered at Noida.

HCL Peripherals (a unit of HCL Infosystems Ltd.), founded in the year 1983, is a
manufacturer of computer peripherals in India of Display Products, Thin Client solutions,
Information and Interactive Kiosks and a range of Networking products & Solutions. HCL
Peripherals has two Manufacturing facilities, one in Pondicherry (Electronics) and the other
in Chennai (Mechanical). The company has been given ISO:27001 certifications.

[edit] Environmental record

According to environmental organisation Greenpeace only 10% of HCL products are
currently free of toxic vinyl plastic (PVC) and brominated flame retardants (BFRs). In March
2010, HCL launched its first notebook entirely free of PVC and BFRs. [5]

[edit] References