Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri

Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri Ltd.
Successor Gopaldas Tribhovandas Zaveri
Founded 1864
Founder Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri
Headquarters Zaveri Bazaar, Mumbai, India
Number of locations
 30 ( Dhanbad, Delhi, Jamnagar, Raipur, Ahmedabad, Bhavnagar, Rajkot, Gandhidham, Surat, Vadodara, Vapi, Jamshedpur, Kochi, Indore, Aurangabad, Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Thane, Vasai, Vashi, Udaipur, Vijaywada, Hyderabad, Jamshedpur, Kolkata.[1])
Key people
 Shrikant Zaveri, Chairman & Managing Director
Products jewellery
Revenue ₹8.8 billion (US$100 million) (2010)[1]
Website www.tbztheoriginal.com

Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri Ltd. (TBZ) is a noted Indian jeweller and jewellery retail chain based in India.[2] Established in 1864 (153 years ago) by Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri in Zaveri Bazaar, the jewellery district of Mumbai, it was subsequently headed by his son, Gopaldas Tribhovandas Zaveri, and now Shrikant Zaveri, is the present chairman and managing director of the group. The company today, has 28 showrooms in 21 cities across eleven states, including Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Rajkot[3][4] The company proposed an Initial Public Offer (IPO) in July 2011.[5]

Overview

The company has 30 showrooms under "Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri" brand (29 company owned 1 franchise), for gold jewellery and diamond studded jewellery. Apart from that it has two designer boutiques under "Krsala", where its sells jadau and diamond-studded jewellery.[1] Its main showroom at Zaveri Bazaar in Mumbai is built across five floors and said to be the largest jewellery showroom in India.,[6] while its other Mumbai branches are in [Opera House], Churchgate, Borivali, Ghatkopar, and Santacruz. It operates stores in Dhanbad, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Vijayawada, Ahmedabad, Surat, Kochi, Indore, Thane, Raipur, Jamshedpur, and Udaipur.

Its manufacturing unit for diamond studded jewellery in Kandivli in Mumbai.[1]

In 2011, it entered the men's jewellery segment, with its Gentlemen's Collection in gold and diamonds.[7] Previously in the January of the same year, it filed a draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) for an initial public offering with market regulator SEBI, to sell 16.66 million shares of Rs 10 each.[8]

In 1987, the shop was robbed by a conman along with 28 other so-called probationary CBI officers under the guise of RAW officers. The mysterious man is unidentified and the case remains unsolved till now.[9] A movie Special 26 has also been made on this incident which was released in 2013.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri Limited Research" (PDF). CRISIL (Standard and Poor's). 12 July 2011.
  2. ↑ Susan Stronge; Nima Poovaya-Smith; James C. Harle (1988). A Golden Treasury: jewellery from the Indian subcontinent. Rizzoli in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum and Grantha Corp. p. 118. ISBN 0-8478-1012-7.
  3. ↑ "Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri opens new showroom at Rajkot". Business Standard. 28 July 2011.
  4. ↑ "About us". Website.
  5. ↑ "CRISIL assigns grade 3/5 to Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri IPO". Moneycontrol.com (CNBC-TV18). 13 July 2011.
  6. ↑ "Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri Review". Fodor's.
  7. ↑ "Jewellery retailer Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri enters men's jewellery". The Economic Times. 20 June 2011.
  8. ↑ "Tribhovandas Bhimji files DRHP with Sebi". The Financial Express. 28 January 2011.
  9. ↑ http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/may/090510-tribhuvandas-bhimji-zaveri-robbery-1987-police-still-clueless.htm
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