JCB Continues to Contribute to Infrastructure Development in India

When we think of successful international companies that operate in India, we tend to think of Google, Microsoft, and SAP, for example, with their various high-tech bases in Bengaluru or Hyderabad.

- Lord Bamford, Chairman, JCB

Few of us think of JCB, the British-based construction equipment manufacturer that has been making machinery in India since 1979. The organization's product portfolio includes generators, access platforms, backhoe loaders, excavators, super loaders, and many more products across industries such as construction and infrastructure, aviation and ports, agriculture, and so on.

Maybe we don't think of JCB as an international company at all because it has been operating in India for such a long time. In some respects, we might possibly see the organization as an Indian company because we have seen so many JCBs on our roads over nearly five decades.

JCB is truly part of the Indian landscape, and we should take pride in its reassuring presence across the whole of India.

This year, JCB is celebrating its eightieth birthday, and the celebrations are taking place in India during March. Not in Great Britain, where the company was founded in October 1945, by the late Joseph Cyril Bamford, known as Mr. JCB. His son, Anthony Bamford, took over as Chairman of JCB in 1975, and it was he who was the driving force behind establishing JCB as a formidable brand in India.