BUSINESS PROFILE :
Bharat Electronics (BEL), a public sector company, is one of the largest manufacturers and suppliers of radars, wireless communications systems and turnkey systems to the Indian defence services. Its also in the field of telecommunications, sound and vision broadcasting, opto electronics, solar systems, IT products and electronic components.
BEL has nine manufacturing units. Wireless and satellite communications systems, electronic warfare systems and other telecom equipment to the defense sector forms 87% of its business. Most of the electronic sub assembly components for Indian missiles; Akash, Dhruv and Trishul have been provided by BEL. It is also implementing the first phase of EDUSAT project, VSAT communication links from 14 hubs to 800 Satellite Interactive Terminals and 150 Receive only Terminals and Learning Management Software as the application package. Its role in the Civilian Telecom Electronics sector is Electronic Voting Machines and the set top boxes for cable and DTH.
The company has two joint ventures, GEBEL (P) Ltd with General Electric, USA, and BEL Multitone with Multitone PLC, UK for marketing paging equipment. BEL also has a subsidiary, BEL Optronic Devices Ltd. (BELOP) at Pune.
BEL is planning foray into emerging broadband as the next growth area for set-top boxes. It is working on its broadband or telecom STB in its civil stream. Further the company plans to grow exports and has target of export revenues Rs 4500 million by 2008.
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