BRITZO launches operations in India with INR 100 croreinvestment towards the Make in India initiative

 March 9, 2018

~ To drive digitization across India’s rural heartland with its innovation-driven ‘smart’ feature phone offerings across 17 states

~ BRITZO envisions securing 3% of the Indian mobile phone market share

With an aim to drive the now-ubiquitous digitization towards rural India, pioneering communications company BRITZO has ventured into the Indian mobile phone market. The brand leverages considerable advancements in ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and is building a portfolio comprising ‘smart’ feature phone offerings at cost-effective price points. These offerings will be aimed at consumers across tier-III, tier-IV, and tier-V markets in India.

The brainchild of Pradipto Ganguly and Dharamvir Shaw, this innovation-driven brand’s vision is to drive digital enablement across the rural heartland of the country by offering an evolved alternative to feature phones. BRITZO intends to enable convenient access to new-age technological features for its customers, while progressively making digital technologies a part of their day-to-day lifestyles. BRITZO is building a product portfolio of specialized smart feature phone offerings based on extensive R&D to this end at its state-of-the-art facilities in India and China.

BRITZO’s manufacturing facility is certified with ISO 9001:2015 for quality management and incorporate more than 20 QC methods (including automated and manual QCs) to ensure quality standards higher than the national average. The brand, moreover, has market research-driven inline QC and individual QC checking in place and has deployed specialized testing teams for software and hardware quality checking. The company has also made its processes environment-friendly with e-waste recycle management and also intends to invest Rs. 100 crore towards the Make in India initiative.

BRITZO envisions securing 3% of the Indian mobile phone market share during this period. It aims to achieve this goal by launching across 17 states including UP, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, NESA, and Gujarat during the first phase of its expansion. The company will then target other mobile phone markets across India after Q1 of FY2018-19.