Reliance plans ₹1,500 Cr beverage hub

Reliance Consumer Products is moving ahead with a ₹1,500-crore food and beverage manufacturing hub in Katol, near Nagpur, adding a large new base for soft drinks and packaged foods in central India. (thehindubusinessline.com) The Maharashtra government signed a memorandum of understanding with Reliance Consumer Products in September 2025 for a ₹1,513-crore integrated facility at Katol. The plant is expected to create about 500 jobs, according to the state and company reporting cited by BusinessLine and The Economic Times. (thehindubusinessline.com, (economictimes.indiatimes.com)) Katol sits in Maharashtra’s Nagpur district, a logistics belt tied into the Delhi-Nagpur and Hyderabad-Nagpur industrial corridors and the Samruddhi Expressway, which the state markets as an advantage for food processing and warehousing. Maharashtra’s investment agency says the state already has 12 food-processing clusters and a large farm-to-factory base in crops, beverages, and allied industries. (maitri.maharashtra.gov.in) This plant fits into a much bigger Reliance buildout. At Reliance Industries’ 48th annual general meeting in August 2025, Isha Ambani said the group would invest ₹40,000 crore over three years to create integrated food parks across India. (ril.com) Reliance Consumer Products has been expanding fast in beverages, not just staples. The company has used the Campa brand to push back into India’s carbonated drinks market and has also added regional beverage partnerships such as Sosyo through a joint venture announced in January 2023. (business-standard.com, (ril.com)) An integrated food park is basically a factory cluster: one site handles making, bottling, packing, storage, and outbound shipping instead of splitting those steps across several plants. That setup can cut freight time, reduce handling costs, and keep a consumer brand closer to farms, warehouses, and retail shelves. (ril.com, (maitri.maharashtra.gov.in)) For Reliance, Katol also places beverage production closer to inland markets where it is trying to scale distribution through kirana stores, modern retail, and its own networks. Business Standard reported in October 2024 that Campa’s pricing and retailer-margin strategy was already pressuring larger rivals in India’s soft-drink market. (business-standard.com) The company has not, in the sources reviewed here, publicly broken out which exact beverage lines will be made first at Katol or when each line will start production. But the state-backed MoU and Reliance’s wider food-park plan point to the same next step: more in-house manufacturing capacity as Reliance tries to turn consumer brands into a national scale business. (thehindubusinessline.com, (ril.com))