| FBMI
PROFILE
Established in 1950, from gathering
of CEOs of small, medium and large Biscuit manufacturing organizations
in the country’s capital city, the Federation of Biscuit
Manufacturers of India, popularly known as FBMI has come to stay
as the premier forum of the organized segment the biscuit industry
in India, by virtue of its effective servicing and result oriented
activities, with the prime objective of protecting and promoting
the interests and development of the Biscuit industry.
During the five and a half decades
of post-independent India, the biscuit industry in the country
has achieved a position of pre-eminence as the third largest producer
of Biscuits in the world, after the USA and China.
The FBMI, its members and leadership,
have played a pivotal role in the unprecedented growth, development
and reach into all parts of the huge domestic market in India,
as also in exports of biscuits.
The FBMI represents the organized
biscuit industry consisting of small scale, medium and large biscuit
manufacturers located in all zones and all States of the country.
As the apex body of the biscuit industry, the Federation strives
to serve its members in particular and the biscuit industry in
general.
As an integral part of the industrial
scenario in the country and belonging to the food processing sector
which has been identified as the sunrise group of industries by
the Government of India, biscuits along with similar packaged
food products, have a place of pride.
The FBMI estimates indicate that
the proportion of biscuit production in the country , in the organized
and unorganized segments of manufacturing is 60% : 40%. (Please
see “Biscuit Industry Profile” for further detailed
data/information).
FBMI - AIMS & OBJECTIVES:
The aims and objectives for which
the Federation was founded and exists. Click
for details
FBMI - ORGANIGRAM
The Federation is a Company registered
under Section 25 of the Companies Act, 1955. Its management is
vested with the Executive Committee elected at the Annual General
Body of members and consists of a President, Vice President and
20 members of the Executive Committee. The secretariat of the
federation is headed by the secretary.
FBMI’s Functions &
Operations
Dissemination
of information - Latest relevant information and data is
transmitted and disseminated to the member companies, by way of
Circulars on the entire gamut of areas concerning and of interest
to the biscuit industry, such as legislations Acts/Rules etc relating
to PFA, Weights & Measures Packaged Commodities Rules a mendments/proposals
for changes on such Acts/Rules particularly those adversely affecting
manufacturers of Biscuits. With a view to ensure faster and economical
transmission of its communications/circulation to members, the
FBMI has already initiated email, launching of FBMI’s Website
(from November 2003) and by publishing of the industry’s
mouth-piece journal – ‘FBMI NEWS’ a quarterly,
beginning from October-December 2003.
Problems/Grey Areas and Solutions/Amelioration
- Interaction/meetings/representations
with Governments – both in the States and in the Centre,
to highlight and urge/seek solutions and relief in regard to problems
faced by members in particular and the industry in general, in
regard to various issues i.e. Taxation, Food Laws , finance, infrastructure,
industrial relations, environment/pollution and other grey areas
viz. wages, electricity tariff, availability and cost escalation
on wheat flour, vegetable oil,sugar, fuel, packaging and other
raw materials as well as ingredients.
FBMI highlights Biscuit Industry’s
Viewpoints:
Taxation: Central
Exice Duty - Due
to concerted efforts by way of regular and continuous interaction
with the Union Finance Minister, officials of the Ministry/CBEC
as also with political leaders of various parties, seeking support
from the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Govt of India,
and through the national apex organizations of industry, the Union
Budget 2003-04 reduced the Central Excise Duty on Biscuits, from
16% to 8%, i.e. the rate of Duty prevailing before it was doubled
in 1999-2000.
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