Vadilal

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Vadilal

Type	Public company BSE: 519156 NSE: VADILALIND
Industry	Conglomerate
Founded	1907; 114 years ago (1907)[1]
Headquarters	Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India[2][3]
Key people	Ramchandrabhai Gandhi (chairman emirate) Virendra R Gandhi (chairman & managing director) Rajesh Gandhi (managing director) Devanshu Gandhi (managing director)
Products	Chemicals Foreign Exchange Ice cream Processed food Real Estate
Revenue	₹450 crore (US$63 million)
Number of employees	1,000
Parent	Vadilal Group
Website	www.vadilalicecreams.com

Vadilal Industries Ltd is an Indian ice cream and flavoured milk manufacturer. The company is also one of the largest processed food manufacturers in India^{[citation needed]} with significant exports of frozen vegetables and ready to eat snacks, curries, and breads.^{[citation needed]}

History[]

Vadilal House, Ahmedabad

Vadilal Gandhi started a soda fountain in 1907.^[4] Initially he used to make ice cream in a "kothi" (a hand-cranked wood-bucket ice-cream maker)to churn milk with other ingredients, with ice and salt for cooling. In 1926, he imported ice-cream making machines from overseas.^[5] Home delivery was also offered back then, with ice creams packed in thermocol boxes. He passed on the business to his son, Ranchod Lal, who ran a one-man operation.^{[citation needed]} Eventually, Ranchod Lal's sons, Ramchandra and Lakshman, inherited the business and they were instrumental in giving a new direction to the company.^{[citation needed]} By the 1970s, the Vadilal Company had evolved into a modern corporate entity.^{[citation needed]}

Products[]

Vadilal offers a large range of ice creams in the country with multiple flavors and packs, across forms (cones, candies, bars, ice-lollies, small cups, big cups, family packs, and economy packs). In addition to a supermarket presence, Vadilal also has a retail presence through its Happinnezz ice-cream parlour, which are run through a franchisee model. Since Vadilal started by catering to the people of Gujarat, all their products are vegetarian and do not use eggs.^[6]

Vadilal entered the processed foods industry to optimise utilisation of its extensive cold chain network in the 1990s. It caters to the domestic and export markets with products such as frozen vegetables and ready to eat snacks, curries and breads, in addition to the traditional core ice cream business.

Production facilities[]

Vadilal Industries has two ice cream production facilities – one at Pundhra in Gandhinagar district, Gujarat and the other one at Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh. It has a very strong distribution network of 50,000 retailers, 250 SKUs (stock keeping units), 550 distributors, 32 CNF and 250 vehicles for delivery of goods.

References[]

External links[]

• vadilalicecreams.com