Kolkata: The Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd (GCMMF), which markets the Amul brand of milk and dairy products, is expecting 20 per cent sales growth in 2017-18, a company official said in Kolkata on Saturday.
The dairy firm intends to be India's biggest FMCG company, surpassing Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) by the end of 2018-19, according to him.
"We plan to grow 20 percent in the current fiscal and we wish to be the biggest FMCG company in India by 2018-19 crossing HUL," the firm's Managing Director RS Sodhi told reporters in Kolkata.
"If we have to grow by 20 percent, we have to expand milk procurement from outside Gujarat. We procure about 200 lakh litres of milk per day. Of this, around 15 percent of milk is being procured from outside Gujarat. There is a need to procure 13-14 percent more milk to meet the growth target," he said.
"We are working out to enter Tamil Nadu and Kerala," he said.
"We invest about Rs 800 crore every year for setting up new processing plants. We have planned to invest Rs 2,500 crore to build up processing plants across states," Sodhi said.
The firm registered a provisional turnover of Rs 27,085 crore for the financial year 2016-17, up by 18 per cent from sales turnover of Rs 22,972 crore in the previous year.
GCMMF has planned to achieve a turnover of Rs 50,000 crore by 2020-21, Sodhi said. It also plans to enhance its milk processing capacity from the current level of 300 lakh litres per day to 380 lakh litres per day in the next three years.
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