Business Today has a profile of PE-backed facilities management firm BVG India.
(Hanmant R Gaikwad) is the man who founded Bharat Vikas Group (BVG) India, one of the country’s largest facilities management companies based out of Chinchwad near Pune. BVG India provides non-core activities such as mechanised housekeeping, landscaping & gardening, and security services to private and government institutions with the help of a 16,000-strong ready-to-move and trained and pan-India workforce.
…At Tata Motors, Gaikwad would on a regular—and informal—basis supply the company with youth from Satara whenever it was looking for people. The breakthrough came when Tata Motors was on the look out for a housekeeping contractor for its mintnew Indica plant. Gaikwad proposed that the contract be given to BVP. Tata Motors agreed. That’s when BVP began operations in 1997 as a housekeeping company with just eight employees.
In three years, BVP had grown into a 200-strong outfit, with Tata Motors as its only client. In 2000, Gaikwad called it a day at Tata Motors, converted the foundation into a deemed limited company, renamed it BVG India and extended its operations to include services such as landscaping & gardening, security services and transport & logistics.
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