JK Tyre has 6 modern plants in India which are strategically located at: Mysore, Karnataka -3

Banmore, Madhya Pradesh

Kankroli, Rajasthan

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

JK Tyre has also enhanced its global reach by taking over Tornel, a renowned Mexican company, which has 3 plants in Mexico. All of these plants are equipped with the worlds most advanced manufacturing and testing machines.

JK Tyre started manufacturing tyres in 1977 wsith a capacity of 0.5 million tyres per annum. It has grown multi-fold over the years, and currently has a capacity of more than 16.6 million tyres per annum from its 9 plants in India and Mexico. With the commissioning of the Greenfield Project in Chennai, the capacity across 9 plants has crossed the milestone of 20 million tyres per annum.

TypePublic(BSE:530007)

IndustryTyres,Tubes,Flaps

Founded1974

Founder(s)Lala Juggilal SinghaniaLala Kamlapat SinghaniaHari Shankar Singhania

HeadquartersNew Delhi, India

Key peopleRaghupati Singhania, ChairmanArun Kumar BajoriaPresident

Revenue

6015crore(US$980million)(FY 201213)[1]

Net income

105.54crore(US$17million)(FY 201213)[1]

Employees~5,010 (as on 3 Sept 2013)

Websitewww.jktyre.com

JK ORGANISATION

JK Organisation

JK Organisation, the Rs 21,000-crore conglomerate with a workforce of over 40,000, has business interests across the globe, spanning over 90 countries. The JK Organisation traces its origin in the 18th century, when it came into being under the leadership of Lala Kamlapatji and his father Lala Juggilalji, therefore the name J.K.. While the flagship businesses are Tyre & Industries, Cement and Paper, the group umbrella also includes Fenner India, JK Seeds, Umang Dairies and JK Agri Genetics. The group also has a significant presence in the clinical research and insurance solutions through its companies: CliniRx Tangent Research and JK Risk Managers & Insurance Brokers Ltd.

The pioneering spirit of J.K. Organisation which has been constantly striving to provide best products to its consumers also felt the need to have a functionally effective education system for the growing generations of India. While it continues to run various schools across its facilities in different parts of the country under the Lakshmipat Singhania Foundation, The JK Lakshmipat University at Jaipur has taken up the responsibility to shaping up the new-age new-age technocrats and business leaders.

The conglomerate is also in health care services. While every plant of the group has primary healthcare facilities for its employees and communities living around them, it runs the Pushpawati Singhania Research Institute for Liver, Renal and Digestive Diseases, New Delhi, the JK Institute of Radiology & Cancer Research, Kanpur and the Lakshmipat Singhania Institute of Cardiology, Kanpur.

The Group on an expansion spree with the three flagship businessesThe Tyre business has recently announced an investment of INR 1,430 crore to expand capacity for the production of trucks, buses and car radial tyres at its plant near Chennai over the next 15 months. The other flagship business JK Lakshmi Cement also announced its expansion plan with a cost structure of Rs 1,550 crore, involving setting up of a 2.7 million-tonnes-a-year (mtpa) Greenfield project at Durg, Chhattisgarh along with captive limestone mine and two grinding units. Continuing the growth momentum is JK Paper business that has commissioned its Rs 1,750-crore expansion at Rayagada, Orissa, adding nearly 60 per cent to its paper production capacity.

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JK Tyre

The company is the undisputed market leader in Truck/Bus Radials in India, with 138 selling locations, 4,000 strong dealer network served by six plants in India and three plants in JK Tornel, Mexico. With state-of-the-art modern production facilities in all 9 plants, total production capacity is over 20 million tyres p.a.

JK Paper

JK Paper Ltd. has two large integrated paper manufacturing units - JK Paper Mills (JKPM), Rayagada, Odisha and Central Pulp Mills(CPM), Songadh, Gujarat with a combined capacity of 4,55,000 TPA. It is the market leader in Branded Copier paper segment and among the top two players in Coated Paper and High-end Packaging Boards.

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JK Lakshmi Cement

JK Lakshmi Cement, a renowned and well-established name in the Indian cement industry, now in its 32nd year, has a formidable presence in Northern & Western Indias cement markets. Its current capacity stands at 5.60 Million MT per annum.

Visit WebsitesJK Risk Managers & Insurance Brokers Ltd

After opening of the insurance sector in the country, JK Risk Managers & Insurance Brokers Ltd., a recent initiative of the JK Group, provides Insurance Advisory & Placement Services to both retail & corporate clients in urban and rural segments.

The company serves as an interface with the insurance companies and insurance buyers and and caters to the best interests of clients providing them customised need based s.olutions.

It expertise in specialized segments such as Aviation, Oil & Energy both offshore & onshore, Weather Derivatives for farmers, Liabilities and Group Medical insurances.

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JK Agri Genetics Ltd (JKAL)

A leading agri-biotech hybrid seed company with pan-India presence. Its activities include plant breeding & biotechnology research, seed production, processing and marketing of hybrid seeds of various field crops.

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Umang Dairies Limited

JKs dairy business produces and markets skimmed milk powder, butter pure ghee, varieties of dairy whiteners and premixes compatible with tea & coffee vending machines and liquid milk in poly pouches for retail and institutional customers.

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JK Lakshmipat University

Besides the various schools running under Lakshmipat Foundation, JKLU is one of the recent initiatives of the group that offers management and engineering courses and best facilities that are producing new-age technocrats and business leaders.

In a short span of time JKLU has already bagged several accolades including the Best Upcoming Private University in Rajasthan, the Best Emerging Business School and the Best Emerging Private University in North India.

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J.K Fenner (India Limited)

Company manufactures Industrial and Automotive V-Belts, Oil seals, Engineering Products, and a host of new products providing Total Mechanical Power Transmission and Sealing Solutions.

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CliniRX

CliniRx Research is a full service Clinical Research Organisation with offices in India, Romania, Bulgaria and US. CliniRx has recently acquired a Romania based Clinical Research Organisation Tangent Data. CliniRx Tangent Research is the name of the merged entity. CliniRx conduct s multinational clinical trials in Phase I, II, III and IV for global pharmaceutical and biotech companies

JK Tyre & Industries Ltdis anAutomotiveTyre,TubesandFlapsmanufacturing company based inDelhi, India. The name JK is derived from the initials of Kamlapatji (18841937) and his father Seth Juggilal (18571922).[2]It is theRadial tireLeader inIndiaand is the only tyre manufacturer offering the entire range of 4 wheeler radials forTrucks,BusesandCars.[3]JK Tyre has a worldwide customer base in over 80 countries across all 6 continents. It is a part ofJ. K. Organisationgroup of Companies. JK Tyre acquired Mexican tyre major Tornelin 2008.[4]LocationsThe Company is headquartered inNew Delhi, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg. Registered office is inKolkata. Manufacturing plants are located at six centers in India, located at -

Mysore,Karnataka(3)

Banmore,Madhya Pradesh Kankroli,Rajasthan Chennai,Tamil NaduJK Tyre has also enhanced its global reach by taking overTornel, a Mexican company, which has 3 plants inMexico.[5]

HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JK_Tyre" \l "cite_note-6" [6]Research & DevelopmentIt has an R&D division, Hari Shankar Singhania Elastomer And Tyre Research Institute (HASETRI) with headquarters atKankroliunder the directorship of renowned scientist,Dr. Mukhopadhyay. It has two more branches: one in Faridabad and one in Chennai. This R&D facility is one of its kind in Asia. HASETRI is India's first and foremost independent Research and Testing Center, which fulfills the Nation's need for developing newer and better technologies for Elastomer and Tyres. It is recognized underSIRO(Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) by theDepartment of Scientific and Industrial Research(DSIR), Govt. of India. It is also acknowledged by theIndian Institute of Technology(IITs) and other universities for registration leading to higher studies. Apart from the R&D facility there is also a Product Development Cell present in the Faridabad facility. The Chennai operation is a joint initiative ofIIT Chennaiand JK tyres.

History 1974 JK Tyre founded inWest Bengalwith an industrial license in February 1974 for the manufacture of 4 lakh nos. eachAutomobiletyreandTubesper annum. The company was converted into a public limited company on 1 April 1974. The manufacturing project was promoted by Straw Products Ltd and J.K. Synthetics Ltd.

1982 The company's technical collaboration agreement withGeneral Tire 1987 The overall working resulted in substantial profits despite a 51-days strike as well as go-slow from 14 October.

1988 New steelradial tireforMaruti GypsyandTata Motorswere introduced.

1989 Semi-lug NylonTrucktyre, a New patterns and sizes of tyres were introduced.

1991 Handeep Investment, Ltd., Hidrive Finance Ltd., Panchanan Investment Ltd., and Radial Finance Ltd., J. K. International Ltd., Shivdham Properties Ltd., and J.K. Asia Pacific, Ltd., became subsidiaries of the Company. Radial Tyre forTractorswere launched.

1992 opening of office inMoscowbesides starting Company's subsidiaries in U.K. &Hong-kong.

1993 New radial tyres `Brute' and `Ultima' were introduced. The Company in the process of developing steel belted radial tyres for Mercedes Benz, Peugeot, Daewoo race and Opel Astra. A new pattern developed for bus and trucks `PE-T8'.

1994 The T-rated Ultima tyres launched for new generation cars found in DCM Daewoo's `Ceilo'. J.K. Steel radial chosen for Mercedes Benz India. Development of steel radials for GM's `Astra'. PAL's `Peugekot' FIAT's, `UNO' and M & M's `Ford'. Truck tyre `Jet Trak' - 39 introduced to meet the needs of the heavy load market. The new tractor rear tyre `SONA' introduced.

1996 Jet Drive XS, the widest nylon car tyre forMaruti 800launched. Radial category, Ultima XR Radial, a terrain tyre introduced. Introduction of India's first and only H-rated ultima Xs' specially for Mercedes - Benz Cars.

2000 JK Tyre andIndian Oil Corporationentered into a marketing alliance for installing digital air pressuregaugeand setting up sales and services outlets atIOCpetrol stations in India.

2001 Raghupati Singhania managing director of J K Industries has appointed the 19th Chairman of Automotive Tyre Manufacturers Association.

2002 CRISIL assigned a P1+ rating to the Commercial Paper programme of the company.

2003 Mr Ajay Kapila appointed as the marketing director. Divested its wholly owned subsidiary called J.K. Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Ltd to TEVA Pharmaceuticals of Israel.

2004 securities delisted fromDelhi Stock Exchange AssociationLtd (DSE).

2007 Name of the Company changed from J K Industries Ltd to JK Tyre & Industries Ltd.

2008 The company has issued rights in the ratio of 1:3 at a premium of Rs.75 Per Share.

2009 Mr. Sunil Yadav appointed as Company Secretary of the company.

JK Tyre National Racing ChampionshipMain article:JK Tyre National Racing ChampionshipThe JK Tyre National Racing Championship also known asJK-NRCis atrack racingchampionship series consisting of several single make series events ofopen wheelsingle seaterformula cars and saloon cars inIndia. This championship series is also considered to be the stepping stone for Indian Racing drivers who want to break into international motorsports. Several drivers includingNarain Karthikeyan,Karun ChandhokandArmaan Ebrahimhave gone on to take part in international events includingFormula OneandA1 Grand Prixand other premier racing series around the world.[8]

HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JK_Tyre" \l "cite_note-9" [9]Achievements and awards Excellence Award For Outstanding Marketing, 2009.

JK Tyre wins the National award for excellence in Cost Management, 2009.

CII Energy Management Award 2009.

CAPEXIL Top Export Award for the year 20082009.

CII Water Management Award 2009.

Rajasthan Energy Conservation Award-2009.

National Energy Conservation Award-2009.

JK Tyre- Super Brand 2009-10.

Hall of Fame- Golden Steering Wheel 2010.

CEO of the Year award to Dr. Raghupati Singhania VC & MD.