Hawkins Cookers
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Hawkins Cookers Limited is a company in India which manufactures domestic pressure cookers and cookware. The Company’s principal activity is the manufacture and sale of kitchenware. It’s products are pressure cookers and cookware. The company has three manufacturing plants at Wagle estate Thane, Hoshiarpur and Jaunpur. It manufactures under different brand names of Hawkins, Futura, Contura and Ventura. The company is the largest cookware manufacturer in India and exports its products to more than 60 countries.
Hawkins Cookers Ltd was incorporated in 1959 as a private limited company. Eventually the company was converted into a public limited company in 1975 and changed to the present name. Its product portfolio comprises of Hawkins Pressure Cooker, Hawkins Inframatic Cusinettes, Idli Sets, Hawkins Pressure Cooking Masalas. PCA Engineers Ltd. a subsidiary company of Hawkins Cookers Ltd, was merged with the company during 1993.
Hawkins has sold over 33 million pressure cookers worldwide. Today, it makes 53 different models of pressure cookers in 8 different types. All Hawkins pressure cookers are listed by Underwriters Laboratories Inc., USA, a not-for-profit institution testing products for public safety.
Each pressure cooker made by Hawkins features an inside fitting lid. This design is inherently safer than conventional pressure cookers. To open any Hawkins cooker, you have to first lower the lid slightly into the body of the cooker; and that cannot be done until the steam pressure inside the cooker falls to a safe level. Thus Hawkins pressure cookers are pressure-locked for safety – like a jetliner door!
The company is traded on the Bombay Stock Exchange under the symbol HWKN. It has raised funds through “fixed deposits”, a term for high-interest term deposits issued by industrial companies rather than banks
The company plans to put more efforts at export front besides saving in energy expenses at its plant possible. It is also to emphasize on research & development activity for product development.
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