The Rs 284 Million (US$ 10.2 million) Tasty Bite ?Preferred Brands Business (?usiness? is the leading player in the high growth natural, convenient, Asian food categories in the US and India.  The Business comprises Tasty Bite Eatables Limited (BEL, India and Preferred Brands International (BI, USA

Tasty Bite Eatables Limited, an&＃8209;India based fully integrated food processing company, is in the business of manufacturing (and sale in India) of a range of Ready-to-Serve (TS, all&＃8209;natural, Indian entr?s.

Preferred Brands International, a US based ?atural foods?company markets a range of high quality, authentic, all-natural ethnic (Asian) food.

We currently manufacture a range of Indian (22 SKUs, Brand Name ?Tasty Bite) and Thai (8 SKUs, Brand Name ?Thai Table) ready to serve food products and a range of Indian Curry pastes (8 SKUs, Brand Name ?Instant India) which are marketed in 79 leading supermarket chains in 13 countries around the world (Some familiar store chains include ?rader Joe / Whole foods / Safeway & Kroger in the US, Cold Storage in Singapore, Coles & Woolworths in Australia, Albert Heijn in Netherlands and Belgium).

Tasty Bite is currently the largest selling Indian / Ethnic food brand in the US in the Natural Foods Segment. Six of our SKUs are among the ?0 top selling SKUs?in the Natural Food Stores in the United States (Source - Spinscan, Dec 2002 - Subsidiary of AC Nielsen).

TBEL also has a frozen vegetables line of 10,000 tonnes per annum, RTS facility of 5000 tonnes per annum, a cold storage facility of 200,000 cubic feet and 35 acres of arable land, which is used for producing raw materials used in-house. Our infrastructure includes a fully automatic depodder and freezing line which has latest state of the art IQF plant supported by APV screw compressors. We also have a complete setup of Pulpers and Urschel Cutting and Dicing Machines.