RAMPUR (Kamrup district): Leading food company, Britannia Industries Ltd launched its largest greenfield manufacturing facility in the country here on Monday with an investment of Rs 170crore.
Spread over 22 acres with an annual production capacity of 60,000 tonnes, the facility will cater extensively to Assam and the Northeast. The plant has a capacity to employ 1000 people and 70 per cent of them will be women.
Assam chief minister, Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurated the facility at Rampur, located about 40 km from Guwahati, in Kamrup district.
Speaking on the occasion, Sonowal said, “We want to make Assam the gateway to the whole of South East Asia and we have made great strides towards this in the past two to three years. We look forward to the opportunities and employment possibilities this new relationship with Britannia Industries offers.”
The plant, which houses state-of-the-art infrastructure and technology, all of which is ‘Made in India’, will also cater to Britannia’s vision of being a ‘total foods’ company by adding manufacturing lines of new product categories in the snacking space, in the near future.
“This is Britannia’s largest greenfield manufacturing facility and will cater to the growing demand from the Northeast. The government’s recent initiatives positions Assam as a gateway to South-Asian and South East Asian markets. The state could be an ideal base to evaluate business expansion to international markets,” Varun Berry, the managing director of Britannia Industries Ltd, said.
“We are very excited about this launch as it helps augment our vision to be a total foods company and strengthen our position as a market leader in the packaged foods industry,” Berry said.
This is Britannia’s third plant in Assam.
The company plans to further expand its footprint in Assam by investing in a finished goods distribution centre over 100,000 square feet at an investment of Rs 20 crore. The centre will cater to the entire Northeast market.
