Dabur India sets up new beverage venture in Sri Lanka

Dabur India, India's leading natural health and personal care Company, has marked its foray into the Sri Lankan market by setting up of an overseas subsidiary - Dabur Lanka. The company has signed an agreement with the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka to establish this venture. The company will invest Rs 70 crore to establish a new export-oriented manufacturing facility for producing a range of fruit-based beverages in Gampaha, north of Colombo. The new manufacturing facility -- with a capacity to produce 2.8 lakh cases of fruit-based beverages every month -- will be commissioned in August-September of 2012.

Spread over 50 acres of land, the plant -- once operational -- will employ around 75 people, and the intention is to increase the number of staff gradually to around 200 employees by 2013-14. It will also offer the opportunity of providing indirect employment opportunities for thousands of people in this country.

Dabur has further strengthened its presence in the SAARC region with the setting up of this Lanka operation. In the region, Dabur already has manufacturing presence in Nepal and Bangladesh, besides facilities in other overseas locations like Dubai, Ras-al-Khaimah, Nigeria, Egypt and Turkey.