HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

GHERZI EASTERN LIMITED was established in May 1960 as a joint venture public limited company between the Wadia Group of Companies (Bombay Dyeing Group), one of India’s leading business houses and Gherzi Organisation, Zurich (Switzerland), a consultancy consortium of international repute, to provide consultancy services in the field of textile industry with 20 nos. of staff and small office area in Mumbai.

Since then, GHERZI has become from a small consultancy firm to a conglomerate in India and diversified its services in the field of Transportation / Highways, Bridges / Flyovers, Environment, Townships, Housing, Urban development, Water and Waste Water Engineering, Tourism, Hotels, Industrial projects and other infrastructural projects. GHERZI has reached every part of India with Head office at Mumbai and regional offices at Delhi, Calcutta, Chennai, Bangalore, Pune and Guwahati with large office area. Apart from the regional offices GHERZI has associates in all the major cities. The company has, through its unique combination of engineering and architectural excellence, innovative planning and value engineering established itself as a leader in many of the above areas.

GHERZI’s, infrastructure consultancy services cover the interface between technology and society. Infrastructure consultancy in turn operates in three distinct areas - namely Transportation / Highways, Urban Development and Water & waste water. The services offered by GHERZI typically feature Techno-economic Feasibility Studies, Preliminary Project Report (PPR) and Detailed Project Report (DPR), Project Management and Construction Supervision.

All these activities have been categorised into various departments within the company’s organisational structure.

GHERZI has successfully adopted the joint venture and consortium approach to bid for infrastructural and turnkey projects in India and overseas. In 1998, GHERZI bagged largest ever consultancy package of 220 Km Highway for 4-Laning funded by World Bank. Both Gherzi Eastern and Gherzi Organisation (Zurich) have used their technological strengths to select appropriate companies to form consortia, which are fully equipped to execute the projects. The consortium approach offers enormous advantages to the customer in the form of making available, under one roof, all the services required for successful completion of the project.

GHERZI boasts of a highly qualified and professional staff including over 220 experts from various disciplines like management, engineering, architecture, urban planning, sociological, environmental and public health engineering as also finance, legal and organisational studies. The company can therefore offer, under one roof, professional services in all the fields.

GHERZI has been able to retain some of the best experts of the country in their respective fields, which has given it an extra edge as each of these individual has more than two decades of experience in similar projects in India and abroad.

GHERZI, in fact, was India’s first company to provide organised, comprehensive consultancy and has initiated, planned and executed several new projects besides undertaking rationalisation of existing operations and technologies. The company has, in technical collaboration with Gherzi Organisation, Zurich, undertaken several projects covering techno-economic feasibility studies, planning, market survey, logistics, bench marking, reorganisation, technology up-gradation and rehabilitation in various parts of the world.

GHERZI has to its credit successful completion of more than 1200 project assignments of wide and varied complexity and magnitude. A large number of clients have been GHERZI’s customers for several years. Time and again they return to GHERZI to take advantage of its advisory services.

GHERZI with its competent team of specialist engineers, architects, town planners, urban development specialists, environment and public health engineers, economists and management consultants have first-hand experience of having planned, implemented and put into operation more than one thousand two hundred projects of remarkable diversity which makes them the best trained, best equipped, economy-oriented people in business. People - continually applying their creative resources in new areas of growth, we have a word for it -- Planned Diversibility.