Lindström, the Finnish textile services company, is expanding its operations in India. A service centre providing corporate workwear services has been established in Hyderabad. The company goal in India is to construct a service network that covers the entire country.
Lindström, which began operation in the Indian marketplace in 2007, is busy expanding its operations in Hyderabad. It also provides extensive workwear services for companies.
Lindström has brought to the Indian market a completely new workwear concept whereby it will respond to the workwear needs of companies with the help of extensive service. Its locker service is a popular way of maintaining completely outsourced and efficient workwear service for companies. The company will deliver workwear supplies to the premises of customer companies regularly and reliably. It is also responsible for the design, procurement, warehousing and final disposal of the clothes.
“Our service has been received well in India”, says Mika Hartikainen, who is responsible for European and Asian operations. “We provide customers with service where we bear the responsibility for the condition and sufficiency of the workwear. The customers can focus on their own core operations”.
Commenting on business prospects, he says: “The Hyderabad area is an interesting market for Lindström. There is a lot of potential within local companies as well as within our existing customers served in other areas in India. The establishment of a service centre in southern India is within our operating philosophy: we want to be located close to the customer and know the special needs in that area”.
The Manager of the new business unit is Yogendra Bhadoria. Previously, he has worked as National Account Manager at India LG Electronics and held several manager positions with Philips in India and England.
Lindström’s goal in India is to construct a service network that covers the entire country. In the course of five years, it has established a service centre and started workwear service in Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai and now in Hyderabad.
An environmentally responsible organization, Lindström has various initiatives in place for waste water management as well as for energy, washing detergent and water consumption. The details are published in Lindström’s annual sustainability report prepared in compliance with the G3 standard of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Reducing carbon footprint is on Lindström’s agenda globally.
Founded in 1848, Lindström is the market leader in the field and one of Europe’s leading textile service companies. It has its operations in 19 countries with almost 2,400 staff. Its 2010 turnover was 249 million Euros.
In addition to the parent company, LindströmOy, the group consists of ComfortaOy and subsidiaries in Bulgaria, Estonia, Great Britain, China, India, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Germany, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Ukraine, Hungary and Russia.
For details, visit www.lindstromgroup.com