Chennai floods severely impacted ops, says Redington

Company had to shut down distribution centre in Gummudipoondi for 3 days

Redington (India) today informed the BSE its employees, distribution centres, service centres, offices and subsidiaries in Chennai were severy affected by recent floods. The company had to shut down its distribution centre in Gummudipoondi between December 2 and 5.

"Company's priority was to make sure that all its employees are safe, the spare parts in the company's support services warehouse in Guindy were flooded and the assessment of the insurance loss will be done in due course," the company said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange. 

The company did not disclose the quantum of loss, stating "the company is monitoring the situation closely and hopes to return to normalcy soon."

Redington (India) works with major brands include Apple, IBM, HP, Sun Micro Systems, HCL, Dell, Toshiba and others.

The company provides end-to-end supply chain solutions for all categories of information technology products (PCs, PC building blocks, networking, software and enterprise solution products) and consumer and lifestyle products (telecom, digital lifestyle products, entertainment products and digital printing machines) to over 100 international brands.