Business and Economy

Transparency in Milk Procurement – the Story of Mahendra Pawar

Mahendra Pawar, our milk collection partner in Rahuri, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra collects close to 1000 liters milk every day at his VLCC. At Prabhat Dairy, Sunfresh Agro (Groupe Lactalis) we operate 550+ VLCCs (village level collection center), managed by collection partners, who in turn supply milk collected from farmers to our nearest chilling centers (CCs). Pawar, […]

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Prosperous Farmer, Self-reliant India (Samruddha Kisan, Atmanirbhar Bharat)

The last one week I traveled to meet our milk producer farmers and collection agents in the villages in Ahmednagar & Pune districts in Maharashtra. After about a year, we had very productive in-person meetings with our dairy farmers, milk collection facilitators, our field supervisors, area managers, veterinary doctors and agro-service associates. We checked on

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2021 – Make it a year of Health, Family & Community

2020 will not be forgotten in a hurry. It will be remembered not only for the challenges it brought with it, but also the changes it ushered in. The way we live and work is possibly changed for good. The year brought alive empathy, compassion and human ingenuity. We became more resilient adaptable and agile.

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Time to Pivot

More than a hundred years ago, Roald Amundsen of Norway planned an expedition to the North Pole. He managed to get backing from the Norwegian government, got scientists to share time and equipment and attracted sponsors to pour in huge sums of money for the project. But just before embarking on the journey, Amundsen got

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Competitiveness is the Key to Self-Reliance

Over the last thirty years India have had an outward looking economic policy, under all Governments, that has yielded us definite, tangible benefits. We have become more globally competitive, opened up to global investments, joined global supply chains and are steadily on course towards realising our potential as an economic powerhouse. How can it be

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The CX Factor – What it takes to be a CEO

Few weeks back, there was this big media announcement of Philippe Palazzi joining us as Group CEO. Brilliant pedigree, great track record, most appropriate man for the job. Yet seemingly not a very conventional dairyman by training or experience to be on-boarding as the Global CEO of the world’s biggest dairy company. Louis Gerstner, Chairman

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