About Zuari

Zuari Industries Ltd.- Fertiliser Division

Zuari Agro Chemicals Limited was incorporated in 1967 in financial and technical collaboration with US Steel Corporation to manufacture urea. In 1973, Zuari Agro Chemicals Limited set up Goa's first mega industrial undertaking. In 1998 Zuari Agro Chemicals Limited was rechristened Zuari Industries Limited.

The Fertiliser Division lies at the core of the company's operations and accounts for the major share of its business. The first large industrial undertaking in the state of Goa, Zuari's Fertiliser plant has an annual installed capacity of 946,200 metric tonnes of fertilisers. It comprises a single stream ammonia plant, a urea plant, an NPK plant and a DAP plant along with related on-site and off-site facilities for handling raw materials end products as well as the generation of steam and captive power.


Zuari Seeds Limited


Zuari Seeds Limited, a subsidiary of Zuari Industries Limited is devoted to delivering quality crop seeds to the Indian farmer. The company was incorporated in 1995 and is engaged in the research, development, production and marketing of a range of field and vegetable crop seeds, sold under the 'Jai Kisaan' brand name. The company produces superior hybrids of cotton, maize, pearl millet, sunflower, sorghum, okra, tomato, brinjal and Chilli. Zuari Seeds is expanding its product range to include a wide range of superior crop hybrids sourced from its own R&D, acquisitions and synergistic links with other players.


 


2003-Green Tech Seeds International Private Limited merges with Zuari Seeds Limited.

Zuari Investments Limited

Incorporated in 1994 with a share capital of Rs. 124 million Zuari Investments was promoted as a wholly owned subsidiary of Zuari Industries Ltd. to take advantage of the growing capital market and short term investment opportunities. Subsequently its capital was raised to Rs. 211 million. In the year 2000, Chambal Fertilisers and Chemicals Limited made a matching contribution and today the company is a 50:50 joint venture between ZIL and CFCL with a paid up capital of Rs. 711 million. The company is registered with the Securities and Exchange Board of India as a Category I Merchant Banker and dealer of OTC Exchange of India and is a participant of NSDL.

For more information: www.zuari.net

Indian Furniture Products

Set up in 1997 as a division of Zuari Industries Limited, in collaboration with Groupe Seribo of France, Ready to Assemble (RTA) furniture of contemporary European design is an addition to Zuari's corporate portfolio. Located at Kakkalur near Chennai, IFP's furniture is marketed under two brands, Gautier and Zuari.

Style Spa Furniture Limited

Style Spa Furniture (formerly Gautier India Limitied) is a chain of retail furniture outlets, marketing furniture manufactured in their State of the Art Factory situated near Chennai, and other furniture imported from accross the world. Style Spa, with its network of over 55 outlets is the largest retail chain for furniture in the country and in a short span of time has established itself as a name to reckon with. Style Spa retails furniture for the home, which includes Bedroom, living room and dining room furniture besides computer tables, shoe racks, wall cabinets etc. The compnany has been growing rapidly and is looking to provide furniture solutions to suit individual customer tastes.

For more information: www.stylespafurniture.com

 

Simon India Limited

Simon India Limited (SIL) is a joint venture of Zuari Industries Limited with Simon Group U.K headquartered in New Delhi. It is seen as a valuable pool of process engineering and project management expertise, and serves both group companies as well as external customers. The company is manned by experienced professionals from the industrial and consulting sectors and can independently execute complex projects on an LSTK basis with full responsibility up to commissioning. The company also leverages the track record and strengths of Simon Carves, UK who are world leaders in many sectors of this competitive industry and have an extensive experience in engineering, procurement, construction and project management of major process plants all over the world.


For more information: www.simoncarves.co.uk

Paradeep Phosphates Limited

Zuari Maroc Phosphates Pvt Ltd., a 51-49 Joint Venture of Zuari Industries Limited and Zuari Maroc Phosphore SA of Morocco acquired a majority (74%) stake in Paradeep Phosphates Limited in the year 2002. Paradeep is the second largest integrated DAP Plant in India. It boasts of a market share of 21%, with a wide marketing network covering all the major States in India.With turnaround strategies in place to ramp up PPL's capacity from its present 7,20,000 tonnes per annum to well over a million tonnes, the Zuari-Chambal-PPL combine is poised to become the largest player in phosphatics fertilisers in the country.

For more information: www.paraphos.com