Binatone

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Binatone is a private company owned by brothers Partap and Gulu Lalvani. Binatone was started in the United Kingdom in 1958 to import and distribute consumer electronics. In the 1980s offices were opened in Spain, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, India, Nigeria and Taiwan.

In 1989 the company was divided, with Gulu Lalvani, chairman of Binatone Electronics International (BEIL), retaining the European and Hong Kong businesses, and Partap Lalvani (now Chairman of Binatone Industries, Ltd.) retaining the group's businesses in Eastern Europe, Africa and South Asia. An office in Moscow was opened in 1994 and an office in Dubai was opened in 2002.

According to a South China Post article, Gulu's Biantone employs 110 people in two countries, and their sales in the CIS countries total $18 million, as of 2005. Partap Lalvani's Binatone employs 350 people in 10 countries and the product range consists of small electronics like personal care products, cooking appliances and DECT telephones.

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