Amul expects an 18 % growth in its sales in FY22 to around Rs 46,000 Crs
India’s leading dairy cooperative GCMMF, which markets dairy products under the Amul brand, is expecting an 18 per cent growth in its turnover this fiscal year to around Rs 46,000 crore on better demand, its Managing Director R S Sodhi said. Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd (GCMMF) had posted a marginal growth of 2 per cent […]
Amul asks top retail companies to ‘avoid’ deep discounting on its products
India’s largest dairy company Amul has written to leading offline and online retailers including Reliance Retail, Amazon, BigBasket and D’Mart, asking them to “avoid” deep discounting on its products for their B2C (business to consumer) businesses, in other words, what the retailers sell to consumers. This follows the recent controversy between fast moving consumer goods companies and […]
Amul to launch organic products, set up haats and ‘green college’
Entering the nascent Rs 2,000-crore organic food segment in India, Amul will soon launch organic “aata”, rice, honey, chocolates and potato products, said RS Sodhi, managing director of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF). It also plans to set up a “green college” at Anand to spread awareness about organic and natural farming among young generation of […]
Cooperative sector is best model for Bharat’s growth: R.S. Sodhi
Few Indian brands enjoy the recognition and reputation that Amul does. The dairy giant is now expanding the milk products portfolio and getting into new products like vegetables and frozen fruits. In an exclusive interview, R.S. Sodhi, managing director of Amul, talks about its plans and the bigger role Amul has to play in the cooperative sector. […]
India is producing 10 times more milk than it did in the mid-1970s
IT SURPRISED MANY WHEN – Verghese Kurien settled in a small village in Gujarat after his post-graduation from Michigan State University in 1949. He hailed from a reputed family in Kerala. His uncle John Matthai was India’s first railway minister and subsequent finance minister. Kurien but envisioned that the village can be the birthplace of India’s […]
Are Analogues Invading the Image of Dairy Products? (VKCoE),IRMA
24092021_analogue_webinar dairynews7x7 A panel discussion on ‘Are Analogues Invading the Image of Dairy Products?’was organized by Verghese Kurien Centre of Excellence (VKCoE), IRMA in association with National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), National Cooperative Dairy Federation India (NCDFI), National Academy of Dairy Science India (NADSI) and Indian Dairy Association (IDA) on 10 September […]
Plant-based products are fake with synthetic flavours : R S Sodhi
Plant-based products are fake natural products misguiding consumers against animal products such as milk, meat or eggs, according to Amul Managing Director, RS Sodhi. Companies making plant-based products are hurting the animal husbandry sector by profiteering from these, he has alleged. At a webinar jointly organised on Monday by Godrej Agrovet and BusinessLine on “What ails India’s Animal Husbandry […]
Milk procurement up by 14% in Gujarat through the pandemic
Sustained-agricultural exercise-and-steady-milk-costs for dairy-farmers led to a 14% enhance-in-milk-procurement through the pandemic. Provisional knowledge from dairy sector sources exhibits that milk procurement in Gujarat, together with from different states, elevated from 215.65 lakh kg per day (LkgPD) in 2019-20 to 245.8 (LkgPD) in 2020-21. Data tabled in Parliament by the ministry of agriculture exhibits that […]
Milk procurement prices in Gujarat rose just by 3 paise in one year
Despite average milk production in Gujarat growing by 13 per cent in last one year; prices of milk paid to dairy farmers in the state rose by just three paise. Other cooperatives in states like Kerala, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, higher remuneration was paid during the same period . In Gujarat, the average milk procurement […]
Amul grew by 2% to become a Rs 53000 Crore brand despite Covid-19
Amul brand did a cumulative turnover of Rs 53000 Crores as within Gujarat some business is billed directly by a few Unions. The total turnover of GCMMF, which markets dairy products under Amul brand, grew 2 percent to Rs 39,200 crore; despite the COVID-19 pandemic; its Managing Director R S Sodhi said on Sunday. Gujarat Co-operative […]