GCMMFL mulls MoU with AAVIN for new venture

Tiruchirapalli, June 19: The Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Limited (GCMMFL) is planning to sign an Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with AAVIN for a collaborative venture of manufacturing and marketing milk products in Tamil Nadu.

Informing this to newsperson here today, GCMMFL Senior Executive (Sales) V J Martin Paul said as part of its expansion plans, the GCMMFL was eyeing all possible ways to tap the vast market of ice icreams and other allied products in Tamil Nadu.

He said to give more thrust to its Amul brand ice creams, the GCMMFL would open 400 more outlets in Tamil Nadu this fiscal.

In last fiscal the company recorded a sales turnover of Rs 451 crore through ice cream and allied products and Tamil Nadu's contribution was Rs 25 crore.

He said the storage capacity of Carrying and Forwarding (C&F) agents at Coimbatore zone would be doubled before end of this fiscal from the present capacity of one lakh litre.

Similarly, a 50 per cent capacity addition would be carried out to the existing two lakh litre capacity of C&F unit at Chennai zone before the end of this year.

Mr Paul said the GCMMFL's Tamil Nadu zone was holding negotiations with Salem Dairy unit for a collaborative manufacture of ice creams and other dairy products to sell Amul ice cream varieties at low cost in Tamil Nadu.

Earlier, launching Amul's new product "Stamina Candy" here, Mr Paul said the 60 ml feel fresh health candy would be made available in all the outlets across the country by June 21, 2007.

He said the Amul would soon come out with a new product called ''Spanish Delight'.

UNI