Thakral Corporation Ltd
Thakral Corporation Ltd. (Chinese: 德加拉集团) is a diversified company listed on the Singapore stock-exchange (SGX: Y03), involved in manufacturing, logistics and property development in India, China and south-east Asia.[1]
Kartar Singh Thakral is the Executive Chairman of the Board - he joined family's trading business in 1949, built family empire; it now includes Singapore-listed Thakral Corp., which distributes tech gear such as iPods in China and India, and Australian property group Thakral Holdings. Son Inderbethal helps run business. Forbes rankes him as the 25th richest person in Singapore in 2006, with a fortune of $175million.
The Company is engaged in the supply chain management in consumer electronics sector, electronic manufacturing services (EMS), creation of technology products, as well as property and equity investments. It has four core activities: supply chain management, marketing and brand building; EMS; property holding division, and others. Its brand portfolio includes Apple, Asus, Canon, Casio, Cisco, Fuji, Kodak, Lenovo, Nikon, Nokia, Olympus, Orion, Panasonic, Pentax, Samsung and Sony. Some of the products distributed under these brands include digital video cameras, digital still cameras, plasma televisions, desktop and notebook computers, personal digital assistants, data projectors, electronic accessories, mobile phones and audio products, including Moving Picture Experts Group layer-3 audio/ Moving Picture Experts Group layer-4 audio/ Moving Picture Experts Group layer-5 audio (MP3/MP4/MP5) players. It also creates and markets consumer products under its own brand name, YES.
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CAV Thakral Home Entertainment Co, Ltd. (Chinese: 中录德加拉家庭娱乐有限公司) is a Chinese company that distribute DVDs, VCDs and CDs. It has released a lot of DVD and VCD format of Disney, Warner Bros. Pictures, MGM, 20th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures movies. It is the largest distributor of Hollywood films on video in China.[2]
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- Official website: http://www.thakralcorp.com/
