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The Dhingra family, who has been in the paint business for the last100 years, owns Berger Paints. They took over the reigns of the company from the Mallya Group in 1991. BP was previously part of the Berger group, when Mallya took the worldwide Berger in 1988. Since then the divestment started taking place and Mallya group divested from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Africa. The company has manufacturing plants in Howrah, Rishra, Vidya Vallabh Nagar, Sikandrabad, Jammu, Pondicherry and Goa with a total manufacturing capacity of 1,28,620 Mt. Berger Paints is the culmination of over seven-decade process of evolution and growth that began in 1923. Its growth has been closely linked with the business and industrial development of modern India. Berger'S performance is anchored today in a wide variety of Decorative and Industrial paints which continue to gain an increasing share of the highly competitive Indian paint market. Being an ISO 9001 company its quality products have attained instant recognition, worldwide, and continues to meet quality requirements that are demanded today even in the domestic market. The Country's third largest paint manufacturer, with its Headquarters in Calcutta, BERGER controls a distribution network comprising of 66 stock points and approximately 10,000 dealers, spread across the country.
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