NIVEA opens its first India manufacturing plant at Sanand

Global skin care brand NIVEA on Tuesday opened its first manufacturing plant in India at Sanand GIDC area in Gujarat along with an integrated regional development lab. Beiersdorf AG, parent company of NIVEA, is a leading producer of skin care products and has over 130 years of experience in this market segment.

"It was about ten-and-a-half months ago in June when we actually did the ground-breaking ceremony. If you look back, see in a ten and half months back, we have been able to put up the first phase of this factory extremely fast and the fastest in the history of Beiersdorf," Rakshit Haragave, Managing Director of NIVEA India said after the inauguration ceremony. Haragve said the Rs 850 crore plant is having the annual capacity of production of around 100 millions unit of the companies products comprising NIVEA Creme and lotions.