Pioneering work with the internet as a communication medium. The company was the first company in India to consider internet as a means of communication rather than technology. The company created websites from the view point of internet having its own grammar and idiom. The company, was a content provider to corporates, was also engaged in allied businesses related to the documentation of news electronically. It was in the business of Information Technology Development Systems, Integration, Networking and World Wide Web Development, Mobile Commerce and Transportation & Transmission of Information. The company’s clients consisted of Eveready, British Airways, Foyles, Assam Tea etc.
Usha Martin Group primarily operates in the steel and wire rope manufacturing industry. It was founded in 1961 by Basant Kumar Jhawar and is headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Usha Martin has grown to become one of the largest wire rope manufacturers globally.
In 2000 the company forayed into technology and pioneered the first Mobile Telephony company in India, Command and invested in Usha Martin Internet. Subsequently they sold both these companies at a very high profit to off-shore Singapore firms which re-launched the companies and services under different flagship.
