Lava International Limited is an Indian multi-national company in
the Mobile Handset industry. The company was founded in 2009 as an
offshoot of a telecommunication venture by Hari Om Rai, Sunil
Bhalla, Shailendra Nath Rai, and Vishal Sehgal. It is headquartered
in Noida, India, and has overseas operations in Thailand, Nepal,
Bangladesh, Sri-Lanka, Indonesia, Mexico, and the Middle East. The
company started its Africa operations by launching its product in
Egypt in 2016. Right from its inception Lava has been at the
forefront of building a strong ecosystem of design and manufacturing
of mobile handsets. The company has been building mobile handset
design capability including industrial design, mechanical design,
hardware design & software design. In line with the Govt. of India’s
‘Make in India’ initiative, Lava has taken a lead in support of this
important nation building program and has already set up a design
team in India, becoming the first to do so in the country. With this
‘Design in India’ initiative, Lava is now the only Mobile handset
company that makes truly “Make In India” phones with complete
control on design and manufacturing within India. Lava was also
ranked as the ‘Most Trustworthy Brand’ in the CMR Retail Sentiment
Index 2018. Lava products are available through a nationwide retail
network of 1.65 Lakh retailers who in turn are directly served by
over 1000 distributors. Lava’s after sales service network is one of
the largest in the country with close to 800+ professionally managed
service centres focused on speed and quality of service.