Sri City, April 25, 2016:- Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh arrived at SriCity Monday morning for taking part in the inauguration ceremony marking the start of commercialoperations of the Rs 1,000-crore first phase manufacturing unit of Mondelez India Foods Pvt., Ltd., On hisarrival at helipad, the Chief Minster was given a rousing reception by Mr. C. Sriniraju, Chairman, Sri City andMr. Ravindra Sannareddy, Founder Managing Director along with Sidharth Jain, District Collector, Chittoor.
The colourful event took place in the distinguished presence of Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu, Mr. DanielMyers, Executive Vice President, Integrated Supply Chain, Mondelēz International, Mr. Maurizio Brusadelli,EVP & President, Asia Pacific, Mondelēz International, and Mr. Chandramouli Venkatesan, ManagingDirector, Mondelez India Foods Private Limited and several other dignitaries.
Speaking on the occasion Mr. N Chandrababu Naidu said, “We’re delighted that one of the world’s largestfood companies preferred Sri City for setting up its largest facility in Asia Pacific in Sri City.
“Appreciating the vision and hard work of Ravindra Sannareddy and Mr. Sriniraju in transforming the area intoa model industrial park, Mr. Naidu said,”I have no doubt in stating that Sri City would emerge as one of thebest model in the world”. He said that both Mondelez and Sri City are lucky, as the former got world-classinfrastructure support, the later could get investment from world’s largest chocolates company.
“Commenting on the occasion Mr. Ravindra Sannareddy said,”We are very happy as Sri City has become thehome for Mondelez’s largest plant in Asia-Pacific. We are particularly happy as the plant would improveemployment opportunities to locals. A large number of farmers in Chittoor district would also be benefited,as the company uses huge quantity of milk, in addition to huge quantities of sugar for producing theirproducts. This in turn, will lead to economic sustainability for farmers and an assured regular supply of theprecious raw material to the company.
“Mr. Chandramouli Venkatesan, Managing Director, Mondelez India Foods Private Ltd., said,”Our multicategory manufacturing site will serve both India and regional markets, and we would like to thank thegovernment of Andhra Pradesh and Sri City for their excellent support.
”The multi-category food campus, spread over 134 acres, will operate state-of-the-art Lines of the future andfollow High-Performance Work Systems to drive production efficiencies, save energy, reduce emissions andpromote community involvement.
The entourage of the Chief Minister included Mr. B. Gopala Krishna Reddy, AP Minister, Mr. T. Aditya, MLA,Satyavedu, Mr. Krishnaiah, Chairman, APIIC, Mr. Kartikeya Misra, Director, Industries and a host of senior State Government officials.