India has the largest and fastest milk and milk products market in the world.

Amul, Nestle, Britannia, Mother Dairy are some of the major companies that produce milk and milk products in India. This section compares Indias four popular dairy organisations: Amul, Nestle, Britannia and Nestle. AMUL Gujarat co-operative milk marketing federation (GCMMF) owns Amul. Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Award and Ramakrishna National Quality Award winner. Amul delivers milk, butter, ghee, ice creams, cheese etc. and has over 50 products. Amul has milk handling capacity of 11.2 million litres per day.

NESTLE Nestle S.A. (Switzerland) runs its subsidiary in India with the name Nestle India. It has a total of six thousand brands. In 2009 Nestle recorded a net profit of CHF 10.43 billion, 16% of which was from Asia.

BRITANIA

Britannia had been operating its dairy business since 2002 through a joint venture with Fonterra and has garnered good market share in the cheese, butter and curd segments. The company, which closed last fiscal with a top-line of close to Rs 3,500 crore, has recently introduced UHT (Ultra High Temperature) milk in regular and 'Slimz' format, which is a zero fat and zero cholesterol milk in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore markets for starters. UHT Technology helps preserve and retain all the goodness of milk and has a shelf life of 120 days.

Britannias move to make a comeback into this segment comes close on the heels of Britannia buying out New Zealand-based Fonterra in the dairy business.