61 mobile brands being manufactured in India

A joint study from IIM Bangalore and Counterpoint Researchers, announced the current state of mobile phone manufacturing in India.

With more than 265 million mobile phones sold in India in 2016, manufacturing in India has become imperative not only from the perspectives of boosting GDP and reducing trade deficit but also from OEMs growth strategy perspective to enable effective logistics, cost savings, better localization, tighter equality control and other meaningful benefits.

Since the launch of ‘Make in India’ program in September 2014 by the current government with necessary policy reforms, complemented by associated different central and state-led incentive schemes domestic manufacturing of mobile phones has expanded.

Currently, there are more than 50 facilities from OEMs to ODMs to EMS to component suppliers involved in manufacturing of mobile phones in India. The companies are :

1. Aqua
2. Asus
3. Bloom
4. Calibar
5. Celkon
6. Champion
7. Exmart
8. Fly
9. Fox
10. Gamexy
11. Gionee
12. Hicell
13. Hitech
14. HTC
15. Huawei
16. Iball
17. Infocus
18. Intex
19. Isuzu
20. Jeotex
21. Jio
22. Jivi
23. Josh
24. Juicell
25. Karbonn
26. Kechadda
27. Kult
28. Lava
29. LeEco
30. Lemon
31. Lenovo
32. Lephone
33. LG
34. Mafe
35. Maxwin
36. Megagate
37. Micromax
38. Microsoft
39. Onida
40. Oppo
41. Panasonic
42. Rage
43. Relaxx
44. Ringingbells
45. Rocktel
46. Rokea
47. Samsung
48. Sansui
49. Siccoo
50. Spice
51. Spice
52. Swipe
53. Usha
54. Vell-com
55. Videocon
56. VitelMobile
57. Vivo
58. Wingfone
59. Xiaomi
60. Zen
61. Zook

(Source : Counterpoint Research Data)

By Baishakhi Dutta