British Physical Laboratories, doing business as BPL Ltd., is an Indian electronics company. It makes consumer electronics and health care equipment. It was founded in 1963 in Palakkad, Kerala, and is headquartered at Bangalore, Karnataka.
History
British Physical Laboratories India Pvt. Ltd. was founded in 1963, during the Licence Raj, by T. P. Gopalan Nambiar in Palakkad, Kerala, as a company for manufacturing hermetically sealed precision panel meters for the defence forces. Nambiar had worked in the United Kingdom and United States, and when he returned to India, he desired to create a company that manufactured high-quality electronic products, and he wanted to make BPL a household name. The newly founded company was joint venture with the British company of the same name.
Then BPL expanded its medical product ranges to include electrocardiographs and patient-monitoring systems. In the early 1990s, after globalisation and liberalization of the Indian economy, competition entered the market. BPL retained its strong presence and growth rate. During the late 1990s, the company's annual revenue peaked at .
BPL was restructured with a focus on energy, healthcare, consumer electronics and home security systems. In 2015, BPL partnered with Flipkart as an online retailer.
See also
- Loop Mobile, formerly BPL Mobile
- Rajeev Chandrasekhar