BBM Bommidala Brothers

Description :

The BBM Bommidala Group is a 40-year-old business conglomerate that operates out of Guntur, the tobacco heartland in the South Indian State of Andhra Pradesh. Named after Bommidala Bhanumurthy, a second-generation tobacco entrepreneur, the BBM Group of businesses is a complete supply chain from tobacco leaf growing and processing to cigarette production and packing. In the 2000-2001 financial year the group’s business was more than Rs. 100 crore (US$20.53 mn). One of the handful of highly synergic Indian tobacco companies, the BBM group has highly productive forward and backward integrations that stretch from growing almost all varieties of leaf and cut rag production to the manufacture of all types of cigarettes and high value tobacco byproducts. The group has the rare distinction of receiving the prestigious Chemixil Award from the Government of India in 1984 for highly innovative biochemical research. Premier Tobacco Packers, the flagship company of the BBM group, specializes in green leaf processing while its Hyderabad-based subsidiary, the Hilton Tobaccos private Ltd, produces high quality cut rag and a variety of cigarettes. Bommidala Brothers supply all types of Indian tobacco leaf while Bommidala Enterprises Pvt. Limited’s forte is cut tobacco and cigarette export. Bio-Pharma Laboratories Pvt. Ltd., another Hyderabad-based subsidiary of the group, produces various chemicals with specific focus on solanesol, a tobacco by product that could be used in several life-enriching formulations. BBM Infotech Pvt. Ltd., is the information technology arm of the BBM Group in Hyderabad that specializes in content management. The rare synergy from leaf to cigarettes and information to technology blended with decades of experience translates into highly decisive quality and price advantages to the BBM Group’s clients and business partners.