Market Analysis and Sales Development of Amul
Market Analysis and Sales Development of Amul
Market Analysis and Sales Development of Amul
DEVELOPMENT OF AMUL
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MAHIMARAJ DURAISAMI
PROF.MANISHA JADHAV
APRIL 2021
Prahladrai Dalmia Lions College of Commerce & Economics
Sunder Nagar, Malad (West), Mumbai, 400 064
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INTRODUCTION
Kaira Union introduced the brand “Amul” for marketing its product range. The word “Amul” is derived
from Sanskrit word ‘Amulya’ which means ‘priceless’ or precious, a name proposed by then founding leader
of Agriculture College, Maganbhai Patel.
Tribhuvandas Kishibhai Patel under the guidance of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel became the founding chairman
of the organization and led it until his retirement in the 70s. He hired Verghese Kurien in 1949 and
convinced him to stay and help with the mission. Under the chairmanship of Tribhuvandas, Kurien was
initially the general manager and helped guide the technical and marketing efforts of Amul. Kurien was the
chairman of Amul briefly after Tribhuvandas Kishibhai Patel died in 1994. Kurien, founder-chairman of the
GCMMF for more than 30 years (1973–2006), is credited with the success of Amul's marketing.
HISTORY
Amul cooperative was registered on 19 December 1946, as a response to the exploitation of marginal milk
producers by traders and agents in small cities. The prices of milk were arbitrarily determined at the time.
The government had given Polson an effective monopoly in milk collection from Kaira and its subsequent
supply to Mumbai.
Angered by the unfair trade practices, the farmers of Kaira approached Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel under the
leadership of local farmer leader Tribhuvandas K. Patel. He advised them to form a cooperative (Kaira
District Co-operative Milk Producers' Union) and supply milk directly to the Bombay Milk Scheme instead
of Polson (who did the same but gave them low prices). [14] He sent Morarji Desai to organise the farmers. In
1946, the milk farmers of the area went on a strike which led to the setting up of the cooperative to collect
and process milk.[13] Milk collection was decentralized, as most producers were marginal farmers who could
deliver, at most, 1–2 liters of milk per day. Cooperatives were formed for each village, too. [15] By June 1948,
the KDCMPUL had started pasteurising milk for the Bombay Milk Scheme. Then-Prime Minister Lal
Bahadur Shastri visited Anand to inaugurate Amul's cattle feed factory. On 31 October 1964, and spent a
night in village and spoke to farmers about their cooperative and after returning to Delhi he set in motion the
creation of an organization, the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), to replicate the Kaira
cooperative in other parts of India.[16] Under the selfless leadership of Tribhuvandas Patel, in 1973, Amul
celebrated its 25th Anniversary with Morarji Desai, Maniben Patel and Verghese Kurien.
Under the leadership of Tribhuvandas Patel, the cooperative was further developed through the efforts of
Dr. Verghese Kurien[4] and H. M. Dalaya. Dalaya's innovation of making skim milk powder from buffalo
milk was a technological breakthrough that revolutionized India's organized dairy industry.
With Kurien's help, the process was expanded on a commercial scale [4] which led to the first modern dairy of
the cooperative at Anand. This cooperative would go on to compete against established players in the
market.
The trio's (T. K. Patel, Kurien and Dalaya's) success at the cooperative's dairy soon spread to Anand's
neighborhood in Gujarat. Within a short span, five unions in other districts
– Mehsana, Banaskantha, Baroda, Sabarkantha and Surat – were set up, following the approach sometimes
described as the Anand pattern.
In 1970, it spearheaded the "White Revolution" of India. To combine forces and expand the market while
saving on advertising and avoid competing against each other, the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing
Federation Ltd., an apex marketing body of these district cooperatives, was set up in 1973. The Kaira Union,
which had the brand name Amul with it since 1955, transferred it to GCMMF.
In 1999, it was awarded the "Best of all" Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Award.
The GCMMF is the largest food products marketing organisation in India. It is the apex organisation of the
dairy cooperatives of Gujarat. It is the exclusive marketing organisation for products under the brand name
of Amul and Sagar. Over the last five and a half decades, dairy cooperatives in Gujarat have created an
economic network that links more than 3.1 million (3.1 million) village milk products with crores of
consumers in India. In 2007, Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd., crossed US$ one Billion
in its sales turnover and entered the elite club of food companies having this distinction from India. [21] In one
more major achievement, the dairy cooperatives of Gujarat under the GCMMF fold crossed milk
procurement of 10 million kgs. per day mark on 27 December 2007, which is the highest ever milk
procurement achieved by any dairy network in India, be it private or cooperative and the entire quantity of
milk received was accepted without any milk holidays and was processed successfully into milk and other
milk products.
On 30 September 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Amul's chocolate plant in Mogar, Anand
near their headquarters. The new plant has been built with an increased capacity of 1,000 tonnes per month
against the earlier 250 tonnes a month capacity. GCMMF has invested around ₹3 billion for this project. It is
a fully automated production factory with minimal human intervention.