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Sugar Mills Cause Sanitiser Glut In India
The installed capacity of hand sanitisers in India has risen three-fold to 30 lakh litres.
06 Oct 2020, 01:16 PM IST
Sanitiser was hard to find in India when the pandemic broke out. Now there’s so much of it that prices are tumbling.The cause for the glut is the sugar industry. Prices of hand sanitiser have fallen by half to about Rs 250-300 a litre, according to distributors BloombergQuint spoke with. And it’s forcing consumer goods makers to offer deep margins to retailers, allowing them to sell below the maximum retail price.People stocked up on...
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