Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Business: Honeywell Automation India Limited receives Frost & Sullivan Awards

Honeywell Automation India Limited receives the Frost & Sullivan ''Brand Leadership'' and the ''Product Leadership'' Awards in the Indian DCS Industry 2007

Mumbai, India (BUSINESS WIRE) - Honeywell Automation India Limited (HAIL) has received the prestigious "Brand Leadership" and "Product Leadership" awards in the Indian Distributed Control Systems (DCS) industry from Frost & Sullivan. The awards are based on detailed research seeking to recognize best practices and outstanding performance by companies in the automation and drives industry in India.

Frost & Sullivan's "Brand Leadership Award" is presented to the company that has been able to create a high degree of preference among the customers. A company's ability to consistently offer products and services of immense value, supported by effective brand communication to instill customer confidence, are key parameters contributing to eligibility for this award.

The "Product Leadership Award" is recognition of a company's effort in optimizing its product line and populating it with the most desirable features. A company's ability to consistently bring new innovation in its product line coupled with flexibility in tailoring product offerings to suit customer businesses are some of the key requirements to win this award.

On receiving the award, Mr Vimal Kapur, Managing Director of HAIL said, "The awards are recognition of our commitment to delivering superior products and solutions to our customers. We would like to thank our customers for their continued support and for entrusting HAIL with opportunities to provide them with DCS solutions to improve and sustain their business performance. HAIL is committed to increasing customers' performance by enhancing our portfolio to provide integrated and robust solutions.

Receiving these awards will further boost our commitment to the DCS industry in India."

According to Mr Y.S. Shashidhar, Vice President, South Asia and Middle East, Frost & Sullivan, "The fact that HAIL has won the appreciation of the DCS end-user community as the most preferred brand is the testimony to its over two decades of unwavering commitment to the process industry in India through its solutions. HAIL holds an exemplary leadership position in
the process control technology with industry-leading products like the Experion PKS which has brought unprecedented levels of synergy between assets, processes and people. It is no surprise that end users have voted HAIL as the product leader in the DCS industry in India."

Frost & Sullivan's Excellence Awards in Automation and Drives is based on voice of the customers. The basis for identification of best practices and practitioners is an extensive automation and drives end user research conducted across the user segments of automation and drives products.

A massive exercise on a national scale was undertaken wherein 235 key industry participants were engaged in a face to face discussion. The respondents were asked to provide usage details, assign weightage to key selection criteria and the performance of the current brand(s) against a set of relevant criteria. Followed up by extensive analysis, the domain experts from Frost & Sullivan's Automation practice leveraged their industry tracking experience, interaction with consumers, understanding of product features and technology and marketing strategies to rate the product suppliers in the order of their merit.

About Frost & Sullivan

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Frost & Sullivan
Corporate Communications, South Asia:
Ravinder Kaur, +91 44 4204 4760 Fax: +91 44 2431 4264 ravinder.kaur@frost.com
or Corporate Communications, South Asia and Middle East:
Nimisha Iyer, +91 22 4001 3404 Fax: +91 22 2832 4713 niyer@frost.com
or Honeywell Automation India Limited
Ashanka Iddya, Marketing Communications, +91 20 66039776 ashanka.iddya@honeywell.com

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