Colgate-Palmolive inaugurates toothbrush unit in Sri City

HYDERABAD: Integrated business city, Sri City, which straddles across Nellore and Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh, announced that Colgate-Palmolive India Ltd has inaugurated a toothbrush production unit at its campus on Wednesday. The company has invested around Rs 450 crore in setting up the unit.
Colgate Palmolive chief operating officer (global innovation and growth, Europe/South Pacific) Fabian T Garcia said, “I am happy to inaugurate Colgate's very first toothbrush production unit of India in Sri City.For the past eight decades Colgate has been serving India with its high quality oral care products. The strong relationship and the trust of generations of consumers, built over decades of operations in India, made Colgate as 'most trusted brand' for the past five consecutive years."
The Sri City unit of Colgate-Palmolive has been built over 25 acres and has an annual production capacity of 220 million units of toothbrushes. The company proposes to expand the unit for increasing the annual production capacity to 600 million.
Colgate-Palmolive (India) Ltd. was incorporated in 1937 as a fully owned subsidiary of its US based parent company - Colgate-Palmolive, a $17.3 billion multinational company. It is involved in the production of various kinds of consumer products in the categories of oral care, personal care, household care, surface care and skin care products.