V-Guard Industries Ltd is a major electrical appliances manufacturer in India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

, and the largest in the state of Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

 with an annual turnover of 7 billion. It manufactures voltage stabilizer

Voltage regulator

A voltage regulator is an electrical regulator designed to automatically maintain a constant voltage level. A voltage regulator may be a simple "feed-forward" design or may include negative feedback control loops. It may use an electromechanical mechanism, or electronic components...

s, wiring cables, electric pump

Pump

A pump is a device used to move fluids, such as liquids, gases or slurries.A pump displaces a volume by physical or mechanical action. Pumps fall into three major groups: direct lift, displacement, and gravity pumps...

s, electric motors, geysers

Water heating

Water heating is a thermodynamic process using an energy source to heat water above its initial temperature. Typical domestic uses of hot water are for cooking, cleaning, bathing, and space heating...

, solar water heaters, electric fans and UPS

Uninterruptible power supply

An uninterruptible power supply, also uninterruptible power source, UPS or battery/flywheel backup, is an electrical apparatus that provides emergency power to a load when the input power source, typically mains power, fails...

s. It was founded in 1977 by Kochouseph Chittilappilly

Kochouseph Chittilappilly

Kochouseph Chittilappilly is an Indian businessman and the Managing Director of V-Guard Industries Ltd and a chain of amusement parks like Veega Land, Kochi and Wonderla, Bangalore.-Early life:...

 as a small voltage stabilizer manufacturing unit. V-Guard Industries is also a holding company for other establishments such as Wonderla

Wonderla

Wonderla is an amusement park located near Bidadi, Bangalore, spanning over of land. It has been promoted by V-Guard Industries Ltd, based in Cochin, Kerala. It is the second theme park project from the group and has been operational since October 2005. It has been set up with a total...

 and Veegaland

Veegaland

Veegaland is a popular amusement park in Kerala, India. The park, which is run by the Chittilappilly family which also owns V-Guard Industries, and Wonderla amusement park in Bangalore. The park is situated on the top of a hill at Pallikara, from the city of Kochi. The park was set up in 2000...

, amusement parks.