Dairy Brands Aavin Nandini

Milk wars boil over Amul's expansion plans in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu

Southern states see threats to the cooperative value chains with GCMMF's attempt to enter the procurement business

Amul's entry into TN threatens Aavin's monopoly in milk procurement

Presently 3,000 litres of milk is procured from Vellore district by Amul and it is planning to increase the procurement to 30,000 litres per day

Milky way: Beyond Amul vs Nandini, dairy brands that dominate their states

The Amul-Nandini controversy has been making headlines for the past few days but there are several regional dairy players in the country that have firm control on the market in their respective states

No merger of Karnataka's dairy brand Nandini with Amul: CM Bommai

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Sunday ruled out the merger of Karnataka's popular dairy brand Nandini with Amul after a row broke out over Union Home Minister Amit Shah's comments on the state's milk cooperative. He was replying to a query on Congress state president D K Shivakumar's apprehension that Nandini could be merged with Gujarat's Amul based on Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah's visit to Nandini's facility in Mandya. Bommai said Nandini will always maintain its separate identity in "the coming hundreds of years". "The merger of Nandini with Amul is a wrong imagination. What to say about those who comment on based on their whims and fancies?" the Chief Minister told reporters here. Shah had clearly said that Nandini and Amul to cooperate in the area of technology and marketing, Bommai added. "Shah had said these two big companies should complement each other but that does not mean there should be a merger. The Nandini brand will remain as a separa

Milking the local connections

Two hyperlocal dairy brands, Aavin and Nandini, are building capacity and tightening supply chains as they rise up the popularity charts