BALMER LAWRIE & CO. LTD.
BALMER LAWRIE & CO. LTD. Driven by the spirit of entrepreneurship, two enterprising Scotsmen Stephen George Balmer and Alexander Lawrie sowed the seeds of this company at Kolkata on February 1, 1867. Today, Balmer Lawrie is a Mini-Ratna-I Public Sector Enterprise, under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India. It has eight strategic business units – industrial packaging, greases and lubricants, chemicals, travel and vacations, logistics infrastructure, logistics services, cold chain and refinery and oil field services, with offices spread across the country and abroad. Its logo in green colour, consists of a monogram and a wordmark in Devanagari and English. The monogram has got its acronyms placed inside a round cornered box with the horizontal strokes of ‘B’ extending to left and ‘L’ extending to right sides with arrow heads. The year of founding is placed below the box. Alongside the names are written in a bold cursive old style font