India’s leading biscuit manufacturer Britannia Industries is expanding production, building two new factories in eastern India.
Although the company has yet to make a formal announcement, managing director Vinita Bali spoke about the plans while unveiling the company’s two new NutriChoice cookies in Mumbai.
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“We are setting up one plant in Bihar and the other one in Orissa, which will add to our bakery manufacturing,” Bali told a media conference. “They will be large plants and will be operational over the [next] one to one-and-a-half year.”
A senior official within the state government of Bihar’s industry department told just-food.com that the land purchases for the projects were well advanced.
“The Britannia factory is being set up under the state government’s incentive policy for food processing on a government designated land in Hajipur [just north of capital Patna],” said the official.
The cost of this one factory, according to the official was around US$12m. Britannia’s media representatives would not comment on the deal.
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