Britannia Industries ltd. (BIl) has set up its largest Greenfield manufacturing facility at Rampur near Guwahati at an investment of Rs 200 crores.

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Monday inaugurated the facility and said that the developments indicate that the industrial renaissance has truly begun in the State.

The Rampur facility will produce a wide array of Britannia products to cater extensively to Assam and the north-eastern States.

The unit has production capacity of 60,000 tonnes biscuits annually. The company has two manufacturing facility in Assam with production capacity of 30,000 tonnes annually.

“The way Government of Assam has supported us in getting clearances is unprecedented and unseen in any other place in the country,” said Varun Berry, Managing Director, Britannia Industries who was in Assam on Monday said that the facility in Rampur has come up in record time of 14 months.   

“Britannia is Rs 10,000 crore company with operations in 75 countries. Northeast India roughly accounts for Rs 600 crore business annually and Assam facility contributes 8 per cent of the total production. In three units in Assam the company has invested close to Rs 350 crore,” Berry said.

“As Government of Assam is initiating for communication with Southeast Asian countries. We can look for supplying our products from here to those countries. We are diversifying and adding more products, we will soon emerge as complete food company. Assam could be an ideal base to evaluate business expansion to International markets,” he said.

“The Rampur factory 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,” he said and added that the company plans further expansion of its footprint in Assam by investing in a Finished Goods Distribution Center at an investment of Rs 20 Crore.