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| type = Public company
| traded_as = {{BSE|508486}}
| founded = 1959 as Pressure Cookers and Appliances Ltd. Changed to Hawkins Cookers Ltd in 1986 <ref name="Hawkins Cookers Ltd. (HAWKINCOOK) - Company History"/>.
| founder = H. D. Vasudeva<ref name="About Company">{{cite web|url=http://www.hawkinscookers.com/3.1.aboutthecompany.html |title=About The Company |publisher=Hawkinscookers.com |access-date=23 November 2010}}</ref> in partnership with L. G. Hawkins & Co. Ltd. (founded in 1921 by Lawrence George Hawkins <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.teasmade.info/l-g-hawkins/ |title=LG Hawkins |publisher=teasmade |access-date=5 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809095905/http://www.teasmade.info/l-g-hawkins/ |archive-date=9 August 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>)
| location = [[Mumbai]], [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]
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The company was initially know as Pressure Cookers and Appliances Ltd and manufactured and marketed of Hawkins pressure cooker under agreement with [[L G Hawkins & Co Ltd]] of England. In 1986 the company acquired the present name. <ref name="Hawkins Cookers Ltd. (HAWKINCOOK) - Company History">{{cite web|url=https://www.business-standard.com/company/hawkins-cookers-451/information/company-history|title=Hawkins Cookers History|publisher=business-standard.com |access-date=6 January 2022}}</ref>
L G Hawkins and Company Limited was bought by [[Pye Ltd.]] in 1939 <ref name="Consumer Products Domestic Appliances"/> <ref name="Pye Commercial Growth">{{cite web|url=https://www.pye-story.org/history/commercial-growth |title=Commercial Growth|publisher=pye-story.org|access-date=5 January 2022}}</ref>.In 1962, Pye acquired [[EKCO|Ekco & Co Ltd]] and L G Hawkins was merged with similar Ekco activities to form Ekco Hawkins and later Ekco Hastings<ref name="Consumer Products Domestic Appliances"/>. Pye was later acquired by [[Philips]] in 1986 <ref name="History Acquisition by Philips">{{cite web|url=https://www.pye-story.org/history/acquisition-by-philips |title=Commercial Growth|publisher=pye-story.org|access-date=5 January 2022}}</ref>. Ekco-Hawkins later became [[Philips]] Small Domestic Appliances Product Division and products were rebadged as Philips, but was closed down in the late 1998, due to overseas competition and Philips global rationalization <ref name="L G Hawkins Ltd"/>. The Hawkins Universal trademark was acquired by Hawkins Cookers Ltd in 1986<ref name="ManufacturersL G Hawkins">{{cite web|url=https://www.teasmade.uk/l-g-hawkins/ |title=L Hawkins|publisher=teasmade.uk|access-date=6 January 2022}}</ref><ref name="Hawkins Cookers History">{{cite web|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/hawkins-cookers-ltd/infocompanyhistory/companyid-13632.cms |title=Hawkins Cookers History|publisher=economictimes.indiatimes.com |access-date=6 January 2022}}</ref> and company name was changed from Pressure Cookers & Appliances Ltd to Hawkins Cookers
The company is traded on the [[Bombay Stock Exchange]] under the symbol HWKN. It has raised funds through "fixed deposits", a term for high-interest term deposits issued by industrial companies rather than banks.
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