Jenson & Nicholson, a leading paint company in the country today was established in the year 1922. It has a country wide presence with 33 branches and stock points across the country and manufacturing plants at Naihati (near Calcutta), Sikandrabad (near Delhi) and Panvel (near Mumbai). The company reinvented itself as a completely Indian company in 1973 when the foreign holding was bought over by Mr. S. P. Sinha an industrialist with interest in cement and hotels. Jenson & Nicholson manufactures almost every type of paint for the decorative and industrial customer.

Over the years . . .

1922 : Jenson & Nicholson was established in India in the year 1922 by its parent Company Berger - Jenson & Nicholson Ltd., UK.

1925 : Commercial production started at the
Company’s first factory at Naihati, West Bengal.

1953 : J&N was converted into a Public Limited
Company

1955 : Launches India’s first Plastic Emulsion
Paint, under the brand name of "Robbialac".

1964 : The Company expands its production facilities
through a second factory at Panvel, Maharashtra.

1973 : Foreign holding of Jenson & Nicholson bought over by Mr S P Sinha.
1981 : J&N diversifies into high technology Industrial Electronics business through technical collaboration with M/s Carl Schenck AG of Germany, manufacturing Inmotion Weighing Systems and Process Control Equipment. Soon a new Company Schenck J&N is to be formed in order to service this sector more effectively.
1986 : Jenson ventures into the Powder Coatings market, thus becoming the first company in the organised sector to offer this extremely environment friendly coating technology.
1989 : A 50-50% JV of J&N (I) Ltd. and Carl Schenck AG. Darmstadt, Germany.
SJN provides a Complete Integrated Package of solutions in the Process Plant operation of the Cement, Coal, Iron & Steel as well as Foods, Petrochemicals, Plastics, Chemicals and Power Plants based on Weighing, Feeding, Sequencing, Batching, Proportioning, Online Data Handling, Traffic Weighment and Logging
1993 : Third factory with the highest level of automation and state of the art technology set up at Sikandrabad, close to Delhi.
1995 :J&N introduces Instacolor, in technical collaboration with M/s Tikkurilla OY of Finland. It is the first company in the country to introduce computerised dispensing systems.
1996 : J & N's Sikandrabad factory acquires ISO 9002 certification.
The "Standox" brand of products offers over 45,000 colours to the Indian car owner.
1997 : The company, in order to cater to highly specialised Marine paints sector, entered into a 50:50 joint venture project with M/s Chugoku Marine Paints of Japan. Chugoku is the second largest supplier of marine paints in the world with 30% market share. The new company also be handles heavy duty coatings along with marine paints.

The mission at J&N is to create a focussed team of professionals who are successful both as individuals as well as groups collectively. The success of the function lies in its ability to attract and retain suitable talent and to ensure that these people grow in their fields of work. The Company has a policy of identifying Business Drivers who are groomed to take up positions of higher responsibility through continuous input both technical as well as managerial. The company regularly visits the top Business schools of the country to induct new talent who are put through rigorous field, as well as, cross functional training before being given independent charge of territories. The field training function also provides technical hands – on inputs which helps our Sales Personnel fight competition in the market. Regular year long training is also provided to all functional Managers which helps them not only to excel in their jobs but also to understand and support the Company’s customers. Success in J&N is performance driven and this is monitored through a vigorous Performance Management System which attempts to identify achievements on as objective a basis as is possible.

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