KTC Almond Oil 500 ml

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GT – How big is KTC in UK turnover and staff numbers? How fast is it growing? Do you export to other countries? I wrote about the many Hair Oils available some weeks ago, and the best Hair Oils for growth. Well I have been experimenting with a few new hair oils to discover the best hair oil for our hair (that is myself and my baby girl). GT – Where are your other retail products and your speciality products made? Do you make these products in your own factories, or do you act as importers and distributors for them? GT – What is your brief as Sales Director? How are you organised in terms of sales to the different sectors? Mr Jernail Singh Khera founded KTC in 1973. The company originally began trading in cosmetic oils, as used in the Asian community for health and beauty purposes. Originally a partnership operating as Khera Trading Co, it became a limited company and the name changed to include the “edibles” for impact, in 1979.

Pure, undiluted Almond Oil is the best for my hair and my daughter’s hair. I have only good things to say about this amazing hair oil. It is so good that I have had to buy 2 more bottles immediately, just so I don’t run out.

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Our newest products are Smoothies, Peri Peri sauces and a new Sea Isle Very Hot Pepper Sauce, which will blow your head off! They were launched in April, so it’s too early to tell how they’re selling just yet, but Smoothies in particular look like a real winner. Let’s hope we have a good summer. GT – Of your retail products, what proportion of sales is retailer private label and what proportion is branded? Do you have capacity to take on more retailer private label, and if so what kind of products? The current owners of the business are the Khera family and myself, Mike Baldrey. Although I have a minority shareholding, it is significant. We have many of the most respected brands in the ethnic food industry, KTC, Sea Isle, Supermalt and Ashoka, to mention just four; we are always competitively priced and generally give an excellent all-round service. Quality has always been a top priority.

GT – Which of your products have crossed over from being bought purely by the ethnic community to being bought by Brits as part of their cooking repertoire, and which ones have the potential to do so? Have you modified any of your products’ recipes to appeal to UK mainstream tastes? It’s quite simple: we offer personal attention, competitive prices and have 700 products to choose from. My brief is to control and oversee our profitable sales to all the market sectors we operate in. We are well represented in the Ethnic sector and have specialist operators in foodservice, bakery and ingredients, as well as sales agents helping us across the board. The split between the major multiples and the wholesalers and smaller retail outlets is 2:1 in favour of the independent wholesalers and retailers, but the multiple business’s contribution has grown over 50% since January 2008.I’d say the split is about 60/40 in favour of branded versus private label. We could certainly take on more private label vegetable oils. We blow our own PET bottles in our Wednesbury factory. GT – You recently launched some exciting new products. What are they, and when did you launch them? How are they doing?