Uni Foods, with a customer base of 2500, is poised to double its turnover in the next two years.
Uni Foods is one of the youngest companies in the bakery, confectionary and HORECA industries, which has grown manifold into a Rs 50 crore company within a short span of seven years. The company develops, produces and supplies cocoa-based products and cocoa powder for the chocolatiers, bakers, confectioners, ice cream manufacturers across India.
Its brand Colate is among the most renowned industrial chocolates in India. The fine texture, consistency and distinctive taste of the chocolate have reached the panicle after a lot of research by professionals.
By providing excellent products with the finest service at affordable rates, Uni Foods fosters its business for a long-term. The company is also engaged in imports and supplies of top quality cocoa powder originating from Ghana and Malaysia, and supplies to the industries that use them for manufacturing cocoa-based products.
Uni Foods was founded in 2011 by Dinesh Kalyani and Ishani Kalyani as a distribution company with mere 200 sq foot office area, one delivery boy and an outsourced delivery vehicle with a dream of being the largest food service distribution company in India. The company’s mission is to assure quick and timely services to its existing as well as new customers at best rates with world class quality as it has various product lines to fulfill the different needs of its users. The company has set itself the goal of becoming India’s largest and most trusted brand in the industrial chocolate segment.
Uni Foods has today over 2500 customers in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Thane, which include bakery and confectionary outlets, chain restaurants, hotels, fine dine restaurants, coffee shops, quick service restaurants and caterers with over more than 2000 product SKUs. As much as 20 per cent of the Uni Foods business is through its own brand, which is its biggest strength. And as much as 95 per cent of the suppliers who were associated with the company in its journey since 2011 till date are still with it. The company attributes the reason for this to the fact that it values partnership to the highest degree.
The company’s value system has made it one of the most preferred vendors of bakery chains, restaurant chains, quick service restaurants, fine dine restaurants, hotels within a short period. The company has cemented its position as a one-stop solution for the industry, and new outlets opening in Mumbai invariably approach Uni Foods. The company has set industry benchmarks for quality and services, and has set itself a target to achieve Rs 100 crore turnover by 2020.
