Startups are an amazing thing. If you like riding a roller coaster ; with unexpected ups and downs along the way, you will love this journey. But its not for the faint-hearted.
Bengal Building Solutions Private Ltd. (BBSPL] was founded with a vision to provide an end to end solution for new age and eco-friendly building and construction materials with the brand name TIGONIS. The company incorporated in 2017, and it is promoted by a group consisting of a successful business family in Kolkata engaging professionals with vast experience in the field of construction.
The company has a state of the art manufacturing unit in Falta, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, which is all set to be India’s first integrated plant manufacturing different cement-based and allied products like blocks, cementitious powders, liquid-based construction chemicals, and various concrete casting products. BBSPL aims to provide easy one-stop solution to all asset development needs.
The CEO of the Company Sri Abhishek Banerjee is an IIT and IIM Graduate. Hailing from a business family, he was highly inspired by his parents, who are themselves very high achievers in their lives, and got the basic training of business at his homestead and he developed a desire to grow himself, not only to achieve greater things but also prove himself in their eyes. His interest in business and entrepreneurship started right from undergrad school, at IIT Kharagpur; where he took subjects that would have different industrial applications and shape the near future. But his goal in IIT was to get through IIM Joka, as he thought, that would be the ground where all his thoughts would be shaped up into something meaningful and enterprising. Abhishek had a fascination for manufacturing and marketing ; and coupled with his background of biotechnology; he decided to venture into the pharmaceutical sector. From the second year of his stint in IIMC, he started a company called Bengal Lifesciences, which started very positively but lost its sheen due to sales and marketing issues.
He learned the hard way and developed a kind of ruthlessness that is required for running a business of any scale. This has brought him to his next venture, which was out of college and had his full time and dedication. The goal was to provide a complete end to end solutions to the building materials industry; and collaborate with various industry advances to make fantastic products, under the name of Bengal Building Solutions. Working in this kind of setup and industry, which is dominated by industry giants with huge competition is not easy. He built his team and as it is said that once you have a great team, half the job is done; he moved ahead. One should hire smarter people who can tell what to do, rather than the opposite.
The first step was to make a very futuristic plant setup in the heart of Falta, for which large amount of land was required. But a land fraud has hurt Abhisek hard not only internally, but in terms of finances too. So, he decided to start the business by outsourcing the production and keeping, marketing, and research under his own control.
He started hiring people from the trade, who shared out passion for building a wonderfully fresh and energetic brand right from the grass-root level. BBSPL, as a next step, aligned interesting set of plants, who would agree to their toll manufacturing scheme. Currently, BBSPL has a set of 4 plants in West Bengal, which are fully aligned to their production, maintaining the international standard of the products from their plants, as well as follow BBSPL’s production and dispatch plans.
Once the production was sorted, they emphasized on brand building, which is not only Abhisek’s passion but also a differentiator from other local brands. They adopted a simple strategy to connect with as many people as they can in as little time as possible. With this carpet-bombing exercise, they have been able to get a considerable market share in the geographies where they are currently present. The brand Tigonis has now been in the market for around 6 months with the confidence in their product quality and services that they are able to compete with the very best in the industry, the size of the business is increasing day by day. Abhisek is now powered with his best and proudest acquisitions of his life; his father joined him full time from being the CEO of an MNC to be the Chairman of the group. Now they are dreaming to grow this business into a mammoth in the coming future with a focus on great products, understanding the needs of the market, and develop a robust operational setup; which is not only futuristic but also effective.
Currently, Tigonis is Manufacturing 13 Building materials products and supplying in 4 states that is West Bengal, Jharkhand, Orissa and Bihar.
Products are :
◉ Tigocem Waterproof Cement Paint
◉ Water Proof Wall Putty
◉ Extra White Cement Primer
◉ Tigonis Wall putty
◉ Tile Grout
◉ Tile Adhesive
◉ Tigo Clean
◉ Tigonis Marble Adhesive
◉ WPC++
◉ Block Joining Mortar
◉ Red Oxide Primer
◉ TIGONIS Acrylic Distemper
◉ TIGONIS Super Power SBR Latex
