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Company Atlas/FMCG/Britannia Industries
NSE: BRITANNIA· FMCGCyclical · Aug 26Large cap

Britannia Industries

Cleanest GST beneficiary

Last close
₹4,835.00
29 Sept 2026 · reference
1D · 1M
−1.6% · −8.9%
price-only
Weight
2.0%
31 Jul 2026 · Aug rank 21
Thesis review
8 Sep 2026
Why We Own, p34
Coverage owner: Research (per book); latest results Q Jun-26Buoyant AIF I Top 30 Holdings - Aug 2026.pdf · p1Buoyant_Why_We_Own_What_We_Own_Sep2026.pdf (portfolio as of 31 July 2026) · p34Screener ↗Tijori ↗NSE ↗
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What the company does

Britannia Industries · Packaged Foods

Britannia Industries is one of the country’s leading food products companies. The company manufactures India’s favorite brands like Good Day, Tiger, NutriChoice, Milk Bikis and Marie Gold which are household names in India. Britannia’s product portfolio includes Biscuits, Bread, Cakes, Rusk, and Dairy products including Cheese, Beverages, Milk and Yoghurt.

Full profile (Yahoo)

Britannia Industries Limited engages in manufacturing, trading, and sale of various food products in India and internationally. The company offers biscuits under the Good Day, Marie Gold, NutriChoice, Milk Bikis, Tiger, 50-50, Jim Jam, Britannia Bourbon, Little Hearts, Treat, Pure Magic, Nice Time, and Biscafe brand names; cakes under the Muffills, Fudge It, Gobbles, Layerz, Tiffin Fun, Rollyo, and Nut & Raisin Romance Cake brand names; rusks under the Toastea brand; snacks under the Treat Croissant, Treat Creme Wafers; and Snacks under Time Pass brand name. It also offers dairy products, such as ghee, cheese, and dairy whitener; milkshakes, lassi, and flavored milk under Winkin' Cow brand; gourmet, wheat flour, and white breads under Britannia brand; paneer and dahi under Come Alive brand, and nutritious bars under Be You Protein Bars brand name. The company exports its products to approximately 80 countries worldwide. Britannia Industries Limited was founded in 1892 and is based in Bengaluru, India.

Sector (Yahoo)
Consumer Defensive
Industry (Yahoo)
Packaged Foods
Employees
5,682
Website
britannia.co.in

Key people: Mr. Rakshit Hargave (MD, CEO & Executive Director) · Mr. Natarajan Venkataraman (CFO & Executive Director) · Mr. Ramamurthy Jayaraman (Vice President of Corporate Finance) · Mr. Susheel Navanale (Chief Information Officer) · Ms. Sona Rajora (Company Secretary & Compliance Officer) · Mr. Sudhir Nema (Chief Development & Quality Officer)

Who are the competitors of Britannia Industries?

Britannia Industries major competitors are Nestle India, ITC, Varun Beverages, Godrej Consumer Prod, Dabur India, P&G Hygiene & Health, Hindustan Foods. Market Cap of Britannia Industries is ₹1,20,169 Crs. While the median market cap of its peers are ₹89,033 Crs.

Is Britannia Industries financially stable compared to its competitors?

Britannia Industries seems to be financially stable compared to its competitors.The probability of it going bankrupt or facing a financial crunch seem to be lower than its immediate competitors.

Snapshot and what to watch · Tijori · 18 Sep 2026
  • Britannia makes biscuits as its core, with cake, rusk, wafers, dairy and croissants holding about a quarter of sales.
  • It sells through general trade, e-commerce and quick commerce across Indian states and in the Middle East, North America and Africa.
  • Profit still comes from biscuits. Cake, rusk, wafers and dairy grow double-digit. Croissants grow over 30% at slightly accretive margins.
  • It is broadening, with a health and protein platform and acquisitions under review. Per management, any deal must add brand or capability and be accretive.
  • First-quarter tonnage grew 9% with clean sales after dual pricing ended in June. Biscuit share rose sequentially. The quarter exited at mid-teen revenue growth.
  • It is early in a recovery with margins below last year. Near-term profit depends on covering inflation, with 1.5–2% more shrinkflation pricing likely in Q2FY27.
  • Reported first-quarter sales and profit differ across filings. No reconciliation has been filed.

Yahoo profile 23 Sept 2026 · Tijori 23 Sept 2026

Segments

Revenue mix and market share

Product Wise Break-Up
  • Biscuits80.0%
  • Bakery Products18.0%
  • Dairy Products2.0%
Location Wise Break-Up
  • India94.1%
  • Rest of the World5.9%
Rural vs Urban
  • Urban63.0%
  • Rural37.0%

Latest reported mix as compiled by Tijori from company disclosures; percentages of revenue.

Operating metrics

Company-reported KPIs (Tijori) · latest quarter

As the company reports them. They can differ from the ratio table on the Financials tab, which uses Tijori's own definitions (for example NIM on average total assets rather than on interest-earning assets); the Cross-check panel there lines both up.

Advertisement Spend as a % of Total Sales4.12 % 2026-03
Volume Growth9 % 2026-06
Business model

How the company earns

India's largest biscuit maker (Good Day, Marie Gold, Tiger, NutriChoice, Milk Bikis, Bourbon) with adjacencies in cake, rusk, wafers, croissants (~Rs 200 cr ARR, >30% CAGR), dairy (cheese, drinks) and bread; ~80% of the portfolio moved to the 5% GST slab in Sep-2025. Wadia Group promoted (50.6%). FY26 consolidated revenue Rs 19,152 cr, EBITDA margin ~18%, ROE 53-56%. International business (Middle East, Africa, North America) is small and was disrupted in FY26 by a Middle East-to-Mundra SEZ production shift. Biscuit market share is not quantified in the sources used (company typically cites leadership with share gains vs Parle/ITC).

Economics and valuation note (book)

Stock -17% over one year (screener) and at 46.6x trailing vs the ~55-60x it traded at in 2021-24; PL's 50x FY28E target multiple is itself a compression vs its earlier framework - trailing multiple is at the low end of 5-yr range (5-yr average not sourced). EV/EBITDA 34.1x; dividend yield 1.8%.

Competitive position · why this and not peers
Nestle IndiaNestle trades at 72.7x trailing PE vs Britannia 46.6x for a similar GST-2.0 beneficiary profile (67% vs 80% of portfolio); Nestle's Jun-26 sales jump (~25%) is partly base/pricing driven and its 0.9% yield is half Britannia's 1.8%.
MaricoMarico at 56.2x PE with Q1FY27 sales +50% driven mainly by copra/coconut-oil price pass-through (3-yr sales CAGR 12%); its margin is under pressure from commodity inflation whereas Britannia's input basket (wheat, sugar, palm) is more diversified and its ROE (56%) exceeds Marico's 43%.
Segment economics

Reported revenue mix

Product Wise Break-Up

share of revenue, %
  • Biscuits
    80.0%
  • Bakery Products
    18.0%
  • Dairy Products
    2.0%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Location Wise Break-Up

share of revenue, %
  • India
    94.1%
  • Rest of the World
    5.9%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Rural vs Urban

share of revenue, %
  • Urban
    63.0%
  • Rural
    37.0%

Share of revenue as disclosed in filings (Tijori normalisation). Segment profit measure: not disclosed in this source — segment EBIT/EBITDA/PBT are not shown rather than estimated. Eliminations and unallocated costs not available here.

Industry cycle

FMCG chapter

FMCG — 9.5%: the main stake, for the first time in ten years

Every era in Indian markets has a sector nobody wants right before it becomes the main stake. Post-COVID, demonetisation, GST and a capex-first fiscal stance took money out of household hands and consumption went into a five-year hiatus. Starting in 2024 the wheel turned: states began putting money directly into households — women-centric cash transfers alone run at ~₹1.7 lakh crore a year across fifteen-plus states and 120 million beneficiaries, and our aggregate estimate of the welfare shift is close to ₹6 lakh crore, or 1.7% of GDP. Add GST 2.0 (September 2025 moved soaps, toothpaste, biscuits, noodles, apparel under ₹2,500 to the 5% slab), 125 bp of rate cuts and a normal monsoon, and the income impulse is real. The evidence is arriving: ex-cigarette staples volumes are at a two-year high, rural volumes have out-grown urban for seven straight quarters, and we expect a broad set of companies to print double-digit growth this year. The setup mirrors 2021 in reverse. Then, consumption's fundamentals were eroding but investors would not let go of the multiples. Today the money has moved but nobody is looking — HUL is down from ₹2,250 to ₹1,960, Britannia −17% and Trent −23% over a year, Varun −14%. We are buying the operating leverage of a volume recovery in franchises whose multiples have compressed to 40–50x from 55–70x. The sales point is not "India has a large population"; it is that a cash-flow transfer the size of the IT salary bill has already happened.

Datapoints the team can quote
  • State women-centric cash transfers: 15+ states, ~120 mn beneficiaries, ~₹1.7 lakh cr/yr in FY26; Maharashtra recipients raised monthly spending 46% — Economic Survey 2026; Business Standard, Jul-2026
  • Buoyant estimate of total welfare transfer to households ≈ ₹6 lakh cr (1.7% of GDP), analysed across 16 state budgets — Buoyant Perspectives, Aug-2026
  • GST 2.0 (22-Sep-2025): ~60% of the FMCG basket repriced; soaps, toothpaste, biscuits to 5%; apparel/footwear up to ₹2,500 to 5% — NIQ; Business Standard
  • Rural volume growth out-paced urban for seven consecutive quarters to Sep-2025 (rural +7.7% vs urban +3.7%); FMCG value growth 7.8% in Oct–Dec 2025 — NIQ
  • Quick commerce is >75% of e-commerce FMCG sales; e-commerce is 14% of metro FMCG sales — the channel shift favours scaled brands — NIQ, Oct–Dec 2025
What we deliberately do not own

Nestlé India is a superb business at 60x+ with the least GST benefit and the slowest volume growth of the group; ITC is cigarettes-led (we specifically exclude cigarettes from the volume thesis) and now a hotels demerger story; Dabur and Godrej Consumer have weaker execution and portfolio issues (honey/chyawanprash seasonality; GCPL's African drag). Marico is a copra-cost story, not a volume story. Tata Consumer pays 60x for tea. In discretionary, V-Mart and ABFRL lack Trent's unit economics and balance sheet, and Shoppers Stop is the wrong price point for a transfer-led recovery.

Market position

Market share (where tracked)

Biscuits - Market Share30 %as of Mar 19
Cream Wafers - Market Share20 %as of Mar 22
Sector datapoints

From the one-pager

  • GST 2.0 effective 22-Sep-2025: biscuits 18% to 5%, along with coffee, chocolates, noodles and condensed milk; nearly 60% of the FMCG basket was repriced (NIQ) - Nomura named Britannia and Nestle top picks (Business Standard 5-Sep-2025).
  • NIQ: FMCG value growth 7.8% in Oct-Dec 2025 (13% in Jul-Sep 2025) with food volume +2.8% outpacing HPC +1.9%; rural volume +2.9% vs urban +2.3%; benefit of GST 2.0 expected to be visible from Mar-2026 quarter (Business Standard 5-Mar-2026).
  • Rural outpaced urban for seven straight quarters to Sep-2025 (rural +7.7% vs urban +3.7% volume in Jul-Sep 2025, NIQ); small manufacturers continued to outgrow large ones in both quarters.
  • State women cash transfers ~Rs 1.7 lakh cr in FY26 across 15+ states (Economic Survey 2026); Maharashtra recipients' monthly spending +46%; the ~Rs 6 lakh cr aggregate welfare-transfer estimate could not be verified.