Dodla Dairy To Buy Peer Hr Food Processing

HR Food Processing, known for its Osam brand, operates successful Bihar, Jharkhand and different eastbound Indian dairy markets.

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India-based Dodla Dairy has agreed to get section adjacent HR Food Processing for Rs2.71bn ($31.6m).

In a banal speech filing coming (July 11, 2025), nan institution termed nan acquisition “strategic”, noting nan woody will grow its marketplace beingness successful eastbound India.

Dodla Dairy managing head Dodla Sunil Reddy said: “As a market, eastbound India is simply a very breathtaking marketplace for nan dairy manufacture pinch faster maturation arsenic compared to nan nationalist average. This marketplace supports a ample organization and beverage depletion has immense headroom for maturation driven by precocious urbanisation imaginable and beardown GDP growth.”

HR Food Processing, known for its Osam brand, operates successful Bihar, Jharkhand and different eastbound Indian dairy markets.

The institution runs a “vertically integrated” proviso chain. Osam’s web includes complete 25,000 dairy farmers, pinch a regular beverage processing capacity of astir 110,000 litres, facilitated by 1,000 postulation centres and 19 chilling facilities.

Its 2 processing plants tin grip up to 180,000 litres of beverage daily, nan connection added.

“We spot tremendous synergies pinch Osam, which, erstwhile mixed pinch Dodla’s beardown operational experience, will alteration america to return this to nan adjacent level,” Reddy added.

For nan financial twelvemonth 2025, Osam reported revenues of Rs2.83bn, achieving a 25% gross separator and a 5% EBITDA margin, nan filing added.  

Milk made up 72% of its sales, pinch nan remaining 28% from value-added products for illustration curd, lassi, paneer, sweets, ghee, and different items.

Upon completion of nan acquisition, HR Food Processing will usability arsenic a wholly owned subsidiary of Dodla Dairy. The company’s operations are constricted to India.

Founded successful 1995, Dodla Dairy is progressive successful procuring, processing and distributing beverage and dairy products. Its offerings see milk, buttermilk, ghee, curd, paneer, flavoured milk, doodh peda, lassi, crystal cream, and milk-based sweets.

Dodla Dairy’s procurement activities span 5 states, pinch its products sold crossed 13 states, supported by 190 beverage chilling centres and plants.

As of 31 March, nan institution operated 839 unit parlours successful Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka. It besides has operations successful Uganda and Kenya.