Bangalore based WeP Peripherals Ltd. with a UPS turnover of 18.34 crores, although WeP’s UPS revenues have dropped by nearly 44%, still they are the SD’s No.2 Offline/Line-interactive UPS company of the year.

The company’s Top.UPS could not take off as expected primarily because of higher pricing and more importantly the shift in the user mind set towards Online UPS System. This year WeP sold 97,600 units of offline UPS, which is far lesser then 2,00,336 it sold in 2006-2007.

WeP Peripherals Ltd. has a huge network comprising of 19 branches and 268 dealers and distributors which
accounts for 86% of its sales while OEMs like LG, Zenith, Wipro, HCL & Samsung etc account for another remaining 14%.

The Company has entered into a strategic tie-up with Bangalore based Electronics & Controls Pvt. Ltd. for marketing their online range of UPS system. A clear indicator to the fact that USER inclination is toward online, especially in the SME segment. Even SOHO segment is now inclined towards Online. Armed with Online product range and huge network of branches, distributors and dealers the company is sure of success in the coming years. So one can say that recession is momentary.

Simultaneously the company has strengthened its R&D expertise on the Power Electronics Area and has developed their own firmware for the UPS. Currently under testing, this will provide the company with necessary platform for scaling up their designs beyond 1kVA category to address corporate Medium business customers need. With this added range the company is sure to surge ahead in the coming year.

Product reliability continue to be one of the best in class as usual.