According to Business Line report, Nestle India Ltd, a subsidiary of Switzerland based Nestle SA plans to invest nearly Rs 500 crore on a mainly Maggie noodles and confectionery-manufacturing plant in Gujarat next year. As per the report Chairman of FICCI Food Processing Committee Mr Antonio Helio Wazyk who is also Chairman and Managing...
According to a report published in section of economic dailies, bakery major Britannia Industries is planning to set up a manufacturing plant in Gujarat which would be its first plant on the western coast. The report quoted Britannia official saying that the company has just submitted the memorandum to the Secretariat for industrial assistance...
The New one The old one A decade back there was a popular Amul advertisement ‘Mero gaam Katha parey…’ the title song of national award winning film ‘Manthan’, which told the story of Amul model of co-operatives. Now, a decade later, the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) that markets brand Amul, has recreated...
In a statement issued to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), Chemicals and fertilisers maker Chambal Fertilisers & Chemicals Ltd (CFCL) informed that the board of directors of the company has granted approval to wset up a single super phosphate (SSP) plant at Dahej in Bharuch district of Gujarat at an approximate investment of Rs...
In a bid to enter into the rural wholesale and distribution business, Future group has set up its first ‘Aadhaar’ wholesale store in Gujarat’s Kalol through its subsidiary, Aadhaar Retailing Ltd. Future group plans to open 65 Aadhaar stores. After Gujarat, the next one will come up in Punjab. Aadhaar Wholesale will have 1,500...
The Indian subsidiary of the Israel based company, Makhteshim-Agan Group, has set up a Agro formulation facility in Dahej GIDC worth Rs 150 crores. The plant was inaugurated on Thursday. The subsidiary of the company is known as Makhteshim-Agan India Ltd. Erez Vigodman, President of the company said that they want to provide the...
ITT Corporation is heading a consortium that has been awarded a contract to provide two water pumping stations for Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited’s (SSNNL) Kutch Branch Canal (KBC) Lift Irrigation Project. ITT will execute this project in a consortium with Megha Engineering & Infrastructures Limited (MEIL). ITT’s Flygt vertical column discharge pump sets...
After Punjab and Haryana, Bt cotton seed will now cost more to cotton growers in Gujarat as the state has permitted hiking its prices by Rs. 180 per 450 gm packet for the upcoming cotton sowing season. Gujarat government has allowed the seed manufacturing companies to raise the price of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton...
Eighty-seven-year-old Kerala Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan’s famous ‘ Amul baby’ remark, attacking 40-year old Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s relative youth, has now made it into the annals of advertising. Dairy brand Amul, known for its advertising based on contemporary events, has issued an ad featuring the veteran Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader driving...
Vadodara-based Acil Cotton Industries today said the Bombay Stock Exchange(BSE) in filing that it plans to acquire 2,500 acres of farm land for organic contract farming in India. The company said that it has bought 99 acres of agricultural land for organic contract farming, a type of farming where an agreement is signed between...
This figure will shock you, and compel to ask you ‘ what’s wrong with Food Corporation of India’s Gujarat unit?’ During the period of April 2010 to January 2011, about 6,348 tonnes of foodgrains stored in various government outlets across the country damaged, with Gujarat as a main contributor with total amount of damaged...
Food processing firm Himalya International today said that it has started commercial production at its Gujarat unit. “First unit of food processing plant set up at Vadnagar in Gujarat has started commercial production,” Himachal Pradesh-based firm said in a statement. The Gujarat unit will grow and process 10,000 tonnes of mushrooms, 40,000 tonnes of...