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Kishore Biyani’s Future Group to Start Door-to-Door Milk Delivery
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Kishore Biyani’s Future Group to Start Door-to-Door Milk Delivery

The Mumbai-based, Kishore Biyani owned ‘Future Group’ soon plans to begin the door-to-door delivery of dairy products like milk, eggs and bread every morning to its customers. The service will be inaugurated in the coming two weeks in the metro cities as of now, but will surely reach to other cities later. The milk delivery services have been recently observing a boost in the e-commerce sector and by the investors. The Future Group led milk delivery service can be availed simply by placing an order through a mobile app called Easyday, and the outlets will deliver the specified products within 2-3 km radius. The retail group also provides the customers with a membership-based Easyday Club where they can register at Rs 999 per year and can enjoy offers on purchases for about 10% discou...
Mother Dairy Launches Aadhar Enabled Payment System at Booths
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Mother Dairy Launches Aadhar Enabled Payment System at Booths

To promote cash less transactions, Mother Dairy Fruit & Vegetable Pvt Ltd today introduced Aadhar enabled payment system in more than 1,000 milk booths and 'Safal' retail stores. This service would now be available in addition to the existing modes like E-wallets and SmartChange Cards. "The decision to introduce Aadhar Enabled Payment System (AEPS) was taken by the company officials on December 27, 2016 and was implemented in more than 1,000 Booths in record 3 days," the company said in a statement. The service was commissioned in association with CSC e-Governance Service India Ltd under the aegis of Department of Electronics and Information Technology (Deity). "The AEPS mode of payment is one of the easiest mode of transaction as it does not require any physical cash or ca...
Two IIM Graduates Take the Milkman Route to Solve the Challenges of $70 Billion Indian Dairy Industry
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Two IIM Graduates Take the Milkman Route to Solve the Challenges of $70 Billion Indian Dairy Industry

Country Delight was started by Chakradhar Gade and Nitin Kaushal, a couple of IIM graduates (IIM Indore batch of 2007) who left their bright corporate careers to solve a very basic but prevalent problem - artificial and adulterated milk. Country Delight promises natural, fresh and unadulterated milk directly to the doorstep of the consumer. Consumer ordering and servicing happen through a first-of-its-kind mobile application that completely takes away the hassle of managing one's milk requirements. On how and why they started this, Chakradhar Gade said, "We saw a clear problem to solve, a huge industry to tap into and a sustainable business model that we could scale using technology." As Indians, we love the idea of fresh milk daily. The idea of getting fresh milk is integral to o...
Mother Dairy Eyes Rs 10,000-cr Turnover in 3 yrs
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Mother Dairy Eyes Rs 10,000-cr Turnover in 3 yrs

Leading milk supplier of India, Mother Dairy is eyeing to cross Rs 10,000 crore turnover mark in next three years on rising demand for dairy products as well as fresh and processed fruits and vegetables. Mother Dairy, which supplies about 30 lakh litres of milk in the national capital region has posted a turnover of Rs 7,186 crore during last fiscal, out of which about 75 percent is from its dairy business. "We are aiming for more than Rs 10,000 crore turnover by the end of FY19 with expected rise in sales across all the segments," Mother Dairy MD S Nagarajan said. In a bid to expand its market, Mother Dairy is in the process of establishing a 25,000 tonnes per year integrated food and vegetable processing plant in Ranchi at an estimated cost of Rs 75 crore. The freezing line will ha...
Coca Cola to Enter Dairy Drinks Segment in India
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Coca Cola to Enter Dairy Drinks Segment in India

(PTI)- Beverages major Coca Cola on Monday announced its foray into value-added dairy drinks segment in the Indian market with Vio brand, which will make its debut across the country next month. The company, which will introduce two flavours under Vio, has tied up with Reliance Retail as part of pilot launch to make the brand available exclusively across the latter's 500 stores starting tomorrow. "We have been getting into new categories and we will be getting into sparkling drinks with juices. We are now getting into dairy segment with Vio in two flavours in the value added dairy category," Coca Cola India & South West Asia President Venkatesh Kini said. The company has tied up with Schreiber Dynamix Dairies Pvt Ltd which will manufacture the product. Vio will be ava...