VARUN BEVERAGES LIMITED
Vaarun Dutt currently serves as the Vice President of Supply Chain at Varun Beverages Limited, focusing on enhancing efficiency and strategic growth through innovative projects such as the Supply Chain Control Tower and Order Management System. With extensive experience in supply chain management, Vaarun previously held key roles at Dabur India Limited as Head of Logistics, Customer Services & Supply Planning, where responsibilities included driving innovation, managing transportation costs, and overseeing end-to-end supply chain processes. Vaarun's background also includes leadership positions in commercial finance at The Kraft Heinz Company and Pernod Ricard, along with foundational roles in finance and accounting at Reckitt. Vaarun's educational credentials encompass advanced degrees in business administration and supply chain management from prestigious institutions, equipping Vaarun with a strong foundation in finance, strategy, and operations.
VARUN BEVERAGES LIMITED
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• Varun Beverages Limited (“VBL” or the “Company”) is a key player in beverage industry and one of the largest franchisee of PepsiCo in the world (outside USA). • VBL has been associated with PepsiCo since the 1990s and have over two and half decades consolidated its business association with PepsiCo, increasing the number of licensed territories and sub-territories covered by the Company, producing and distributing a wider range of PepsiCo beverages, introducing various SKUs in the portfolio, and expanding the distribution network. • The Company manufactures, distributes and sells a wide range of carbonated soft drinks (CSDs), as well as a large selection of non-carbonated beverages (NCBs), including packaged drinking water sold under trademarks owned by PepsiCo. • PepsiCo CSD brands produced and sold by VBL include Pepsi, Pepsi Black, Mountain Dew, Sting, Seven-Up, Mirinda Orange, Seven-Up Nimbooz Masala Soda and Evervess. PepsiCo NCB brands produced and sold by the Company include Tropicana Slice, Tropicana Juices (100% and Delight), Seven-Up Nimbooz, Gatorade as well as packaged drinking water under the brand Aquafina. • VBL has been granted franchisees for various PepsiCo products across 27 States and 7 Union Territories in India (responsible for ~90% beverage sales volume of PepsiCo India). VBL has also been granted the franchise for the territories of Nepal, Sri Lanka, Morocco, Zambia and Zimbabwe. India is the largest market and contributed ~80% of revenues from operations (net) in Fiscal 2022. • VBL is part of the RJ Corp group, a diversified business conglomerate with interests in beverages, quick-service restaurants, ice-creams and healthcare. VBL’s Promoter and Chairman Mr. Ravi Jaipuria has an established reputation as an entrepreneur and business leader and is the only Indian to receive PepsiCo’s International Bottler of the Year award, which was awarded in 1997.