Oils, Fats & Foods
Cargill Foods India processes, refines and markets a wide range of indigenous and imported edible oils, fats and flour catering to the food industry as well as household consumers. We employ more than 2,000 employees working across offices, plants and a network of warehouses and depots catering to the B2B and B2C customers. In our portfolio are a host of leading brands with a range of edible oils, fats and flour. Its brands - NatureFreshTM, GeminiTM, SweekarTM, LeonardoTM Olive Oil, RathTM and SunflowerTM, cater to over 100 million consumers across the width of the country. With a focus on nourishing lives, these brands work towards creating healthier, happier families.
Edible oils, fats & flour
Expertise in processing, refining and marketing edible oils, fats and flour for the Indian kitchens as well as the food industry.
We process, refine and market a wide range of indigenous and imported edible vegetable oils, fats and flour catering to the household consumers as well as food industries. We offer a gamut of iconic brands nourishing the lives of household consumers and working towards creating healthier and happier families. We also offer high quality oils and fats to cater to the growing needs of the food industries. With a strong focus on food safety, our two plants, 15 third party manufacturing locations, 1 Application lab for innovations in product applications, more than 2000 employees strive to serve the best to over 100 Million consumers and multiple leading businesses and brands.
Starches & Sweeteners
Our customers in the Indian Food Industry are increasingly improving their products to address changing consumer preferences. Leveraging our global portfolio and technical expertise, we have introduced a broad range of high quality food Ingredients and ingredient systems which are well suited to the current and future needs of different industries, including confectionery, pharma, beverage, culinary, infant formula, snack foods, and nutraceuticals.
Through our high quality ingredients, we ensure that our customers can create the finest experiences across food and beverage products. Our ingredient portfolio includes:
- Modified starches
- Lecithins
- Texturisers, such as pectin and carrageenan
- Low- to zero-calorie sweeteners, such as stevia, maltitol, mannitol, erythritol, among others
Our recent footprint expansion in India includes a state-of-art Greenfield corn wet milling facility which produces glucose syrups, high maltose syrups, dextrose syrups, maltodextrin powders.
Serving over 100 million household consumers
We reach more than 100 Million consumers every month through strong multi-brand multi-category portfolio across the country. These brands are some of the iconic ones including Gemini Cooking Oil, NatureFresh Cooking Oil, NatureFresh Flour, Leonardo Olive Oil, Sweekar Sunflower Oil, Rath Vanaspati and Sunflower Vanaspati. They provide host of products to the consumers, including Sunflower Oil, Soybean Oil, Olive Oils, Flavored Oils, Vanaspati, Flour etc. The brands are recognized by the consumers and industry alike, have equity in their respective markets with Gemini being a strong sunflower brand, Leonardo Olive Oil being the No. 1 Premium Olive Oil brand and NatureFresh recognized as the fastest growing brand in FMCG sector.
Serving businesses with specialty products
We serve food companies by understanding their products, consumers and competition. By gathering all insights, we deliver innovations that help customers drive growth while reducing costs, creating supply chain efficiencies, generating quality in the manufacturing process and managing commodity price risk. We leverage our extensive global portfolio and knowledge to help our customers create unique products that fill product pipelines and reduce time to market by connecting our diverse capabilities in understanding the pulse of consumers, markets, application expertise, risk management and refining. Our portfolio serves diverse needs of the baking, snacking, infant nutrition, convenience foods, quick service restaurants, pharmaceutical and flavor industries.
World-class production process
Cargill Foods India is committed to food safety and product quality. Our two plants in Kandla (Gujarat) and Kurkumbh (Maharashtra) use fully automated state-of-the-art technology and follow stringent specifications and norms for maintaining product quality and food safety. These plants leverage best practices in manufacturing and hygiene. They have also been awarded the highest food safety certification – FSSC 22000 (Food Safety System Certification). Besides this, the plants also comply with FSSAI guidelines and follow science based principles of HACCP certified (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point). With a goal to provide high quality safe food, our laboratory is equipped with sophisticated instruments and a qualified technical team.