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Hawkins Cookers Limited has been in business since 1959. Today, it has two offices, four factories and about 700 persons working. It is the leader in the pressure cooker market in India and has exported its products since 1974 to various countries in each of the six continents of the world.



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Hawkins has sold over 140 million pressure cookers and cookware worldwide. All Hawkins pressure cookers are listed by Underwriters Laboratories, USA, an independent Worldwide institution testing products for public safety. From February 1, 2021, the Government of India has made it mandatory to list all Pressure Cookers manufactured and sold in India with the Bureau of Indian Standards, commonly known as ISI. Hence additionally, all Pressure Cookers manufactured by us have certification of BIS and carry the ISI stamp mark too.



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Each pressure cooker made by Hawkins features an inside fitting lid. This design is inherently safer than conventional pressure cookers. To open any Hawkins cooker, you have to first lower the lid slightly into the body of the cooker; and that cannot be done until the steam pressure inside the cooker falls to a safe level. Thus Hawkins pressure cookers are pressure-locked for safety - like a jetliner door!



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Each cooker is tested to be leak-proof. Along with a superior pressure regulating system, this ensures that Hawkins cooks quickest. Each pressure cooker comes individually packed in an attractive full-colour carton. Cookbooks/Instruction Manuals come free with each pressure cooker. All Hawkins pressure cookers are guaranteed for five years.



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The Hawkins Company is well known for not compromising on quality and for continual product innovation. The most thorough research and development, the most careful selection of materials, the best manufacturing practices and the strictest quality control - all go into making pressure cookers which are trusted by the millions of families using them.

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Our Mission

We have one overarching goal: to win over customers, to truly please them by delivering products and service beyond their expectations, to earn their friendship and build relationships that will endure.

We offer products that are needed, well-designed, well-made and reasonably priced. We continually strive to improve our products and customer service.

Pleasing customers is our livelihood and our vocation. It is the best way we have of fulfilling the expectations of shareholders, employees, vendors and other associates. Our single-minded determination to please customers drives the kind of people we employ and promote, the investments we make and the results we produce.

Pleasing customers is a matter of who we are, of being true to our roots.

Our Journey


In the beginning
H.D. Vasudeva
H.D. Vasudeva

Founder, Hawkins Cookers (1959–1984)

Hawkins Cookers Limited was started in 1959 by an entrepreneur H.D. Vasudeva, in technical collaboration with L.G. Hawkins of England. He was born to a father of modest means but God-fearing, inflexible principles. He found success early in life but his world was overwhelmed by the partition of India. He had to start in mid-life all over again and founded your company at the age of 54 in 1959 with a capital of Rs.20,000. This company is built upon Mr. Vasudeva's selection of product, people and principles - the most important of which are integrity, hard work and pleasing customers.

H.D. Vasudeva passed away in 1993.

H.D. Vasudeva
H.D. Vasudeva

Founder, Hawkins Cookers

H.D. Vasudeva

Founder, Hawkins Cookers (1959–1984)

Hawkins Cookers Limited was started in 1959 by an entrepreneur H.D. Vasudeva, in technical collaboration with L.G. Hawkins of England. He was born to a father of modest means but God-fearing, inflexible principles. He found success early in life but his world was overwhelmed by the partition of India. He had to start in mid-life all over again and founded your company at the age of 54 in 1959 with a capital of Rs.20,000. This company is built upon Mr. Vasudeva's selection of product, people and principles - the most important of which are integrity, hard work and pleasing customers.

H.D. Vasudeva passed away in 1993.



Growth & Expansion
H.D. Vasudeva

Mr. Brahm Vasudeva

Vice-Chairman and Managing Director (April 26, 1936 - July 10, 2020)

In 1984, twenty-five years after founding the Company, Mr. H. D. Vasudeva stepped down and handed over management to his son Mr. Brahm Vasudeva.

Mr. Brahm Vasudeva joined the Company in 1968 as Vice-Chairman and Managing Director and became the Chairman and Managing Director, designated as CEO in 1984.

After 38 years of distinguished service to Hawkins, Mr. Brahm Vasudeva retired as Chairman and CEO on April 25, 2006, the day before his seventieth birthday. With effect from April 26, 2006, Mr. Vasudeva became the Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors and an Advisor to the Company.

The Company immensely benefitted from his expertise in the pressure cooker and cookware industry and his long experience and expertise in the field of management, marketing and advertising. He was the first Chairman of the Advertising Standards Council of India and also the first Chairman of the Media Research Users Council (MRUC).

Mainly because of his inspiring leadership, the Company has been in the forefront of consumer welfare and communication in the form of advertising, point of sales merchandising and packaging.

During his tenure as the Chairman of the Board, the Company set up two additional plants at Hoshiarpur and Jaunpur. The Company Sales grew from Rs. 19 crores in 1984 to Rs. 674 crores in 2020 and the net profits grew from Rs.0.52 crores in 1984 to Rs. 72.49 crores in 2020.

As a testimony to his pioneering efforts and consumer focus, the Company has won numerous accolades including:

  1. First National Award for Consumer Protection and Service from Associated Chamber of Commerce & Industry in 1976.
  2. India Star Award for Packaging in 1981.
  3. Government of India Certificate for excellence in Packaging in 1981.
  4. Pegasus award for excellence in Advertising in 1982.
  5. Gold Medal for Consumer Welfare in 1982.
  6. India Star award for Futura Packaging in 1990.
  7. India Star award for Hawkins Frying Pan Packaging in 1990.
  8. India Star award for Cook-n-Serve Bowl Packaging in 1991.
  9. Consumer Care award in 1993 by Consumer Complaints, New Delhi.
Mr. Vasudeva believed in treating all stakeholders fairly, achieving results through the right means, seeking the best, focusing on the core business, being prudent, being bold, brave, resolute, doing the best and leaving the rest to God.
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