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ABOUT THE COMPANY NIVIA is an India based leading sports manufacturing company that designs and manufactures sports shoes, balls, and accessories head quartered at Jalandhar, India. NIVIA is a flagship brand of Freewill Group (FG). The core sports of NIVIA are Football, Volleyball, Basketball, Cricket, Tennis, Hockey, Badminton, and Squash. Besides sports footwear and Balls, NIVIA also produces other products such as Jerseys, bags, gym and sports accessories, training aids etc. NIVIA is largest sports equipments, accessories and footwear manufacturer in India. NIVIA was founded in 1934 by Mr. Nihal Chand Kharabanda in Sialkot further up rooted by the partition of the country in 1947, Freewill shifted from Sialkot to Mumbai, India and from Mumbai to Meerut and then finally settled at Jalandhar, India. The company’s logo features the name itself NIVIA with a punch line step out and play along with that the three parallel lines intersected by another line diagonally. The company revenue for 2013 was listed at $ 19.87 million. 1.	HISTORY 1.1 EARLY HISTORY Mr. Nihal Chand Kharabanda worked for few years with sports retail shops in Rangoon, Pune and Sialkot. After working with retail shops Nihal Chand Kharabanda founded Freewill sports Pvt. Ltd. at Sialkot. 1.2	Anecdote behind conceiving “Freewill” name: There is an interesting anecdote to how Freewill name was conceived. Mr. N.C.Kharabanda discussed the idea of forming a company of his own with his colleague and friend Mr. H.S Bhaizada. When Mr. N.C.Kharabanda asked his suggestion on the name of the firm his reply was “You are the man of your own Freewill. It is better you decide for yourself”. “FREEWILL” Mr. N.C.Kharabanda quipped” That’s sounds interesting. My company would be called “FREEWILL” and that is how the name came into existence in 1934, Sialkot. 1.3	1947 Indo-Pak Partition: In 1950 Up-rooted by the partition of the country in 1947 FREEWILL shifted base from Sialkot, Pakistan to Mumbai, India and from Mumbai to Meerut (a city in India) and then finally settled at Jalandhar (Punjab), India. 1.4	Origin of the brand “NIVIA”: NIVIA is the name derived at 1960, from the first letter of the name of the founder Mr. N.C.Kharabanda and his son Mr. Vijay Kharabanda, the present CEO of Freewill group. NIHAL + VIJAY = NIVIA Further Mr. Vijay Kharabanda joined hands with his father and launched full range of leather hand stitched ball with the brand name NIVIA. 1.5	1980’s recognition: Freewill sports Pvt. Ltd. was awarded with the appreciation certificate by IX Asian Organizing Committee for sponsoring the game with NIVIA balls and other services. Further NIVIA started becoming the official balls for several federations and events like National football league, the national games, South Asian Federation SAF Games, International Jawahar Nehru Tournaments, Junior Commonwealth handball championships etc.

1.6	1990’s Diversification: FG started representing some of the European Sports Infrastructures companies for Indian Territory including TARAFLEX for the sports floor and JANSEEN/FRISTEN for gymnasium.

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