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HCL Enterprise

Public
Type BSE: 500179
BSE: 532281
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 , HCL
Key people Infosystems ,Harsh Chitale-CEO, HCL
Infosystems Vineet Nayar - CEO, HCL
Technologies

industry = IT Services
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

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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. 123

[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 29% 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]