Hocco Raises ₹100 Cr to Scale Ice Cream Business
Premium ice cream brand Hocco has raised ₹100 crore in funding from Sauce.vc to expand manufacturing capacity and strengthen its distribution network across India. The fresh capital will be used to scale production infrastructure and deepen market reach as the company looks to accelerate growth in the competitive frozen dessert segment. Founded by industry veteran…
Ice cream per capita consumption increased four fold
Riding on a four-fold rise in per capita consumption of ice cream during the last decade, the ice cream manufacturing industry in India is not only clocking a healthy double-digit growth, but has caught the attention of investors and foreign counterparts, says Sudhir Shah, president of the Indian Ice-cream Manufacturer’s Association (IICMA), who was in Gujarat…
Why a debate rages over whether ice cream is healthy ?
In April, a story emerged that for many years scientists have suppressed an astonishing finding—that ice-cream might be good for health. The Atlantic magazine ran a story headlined, ‘The Ice-cream conspiracy’ by David Merritt Johns, who is generally described as a “public health historian.” His story begins in 2018. The research of a doctoral student…