Beat the Heat this Summer with VIO Spiced Buttermilk, a refreshing new product from Coca-Cola India

New Delhi, 15 th June 2020: To beat the heat this summer, Coca-Cola India has introduced Spiced
Buttermilk, a refreshing offering under its dairy beverage brand- VIO. Made from curd, VIO Spiced
Buttermilk offers pure goodness of the traditional homemade chhaas with a spicy twist, crafted to suit
the palate of Indian consumers. The product contains no preservatives or added color and comes in a
convenient 180ml Aseptic packaging, at an attractive price point of INR 15.
VIO Spiced Buttermilk further expands Coca-Cola’s existing portfolio of beverages, providing more
choices to the consumers. The introduction of VIO Spiced Buttermilk is a part of the company’s hyper-
local strategy that focuses on developing localized products in India to suit consumer preferences
specific to a region.
Speaking on the emerging buttermilk category in India, Vijay Parasuraman, Vice-President – Marketing,
Coca Cola India and South West Asia said, “India is the largest dairy production and consumption
market in the world. Through our history, dairy products have evolved with our culture to suit our palate
and cuisine. And buttermilk is unique among them. It’s versatile with taste and ingredients that has
adapted locally across every region of our country. In the present times when consumers are looking for
functional beverages, VIO Spiced buttermilk is our offering that aims to refresh drinkers while providing
that daily dose of goodness. This launch is our attempt to recreate the magic of spiced buttermilk that
appeals to the certain regional tastes”.
Talking about innovation behind the launch, Sunil Gulati, Vice President, Technical & Supply Chain,
Coca-Cola India & South West Asia said, “We have ramped up our focus on product innovation with an
aim to build a localized consumer-centric portfolio. Dairy as a category is deep-rooted in Indian tradition,
having been consumed as a refreshment or digestive drink for centuries, with an ever-growing mass
appeal spanning the length and breadth of the country. Our intent with the launch of VIO Spiced
Buttermilk was to create something for the community we operate in, to adapt to the local flavors of the
country and expand our beverage portfolio to provide our consumers a beverage of their choice”.
A key offering in The Coca-Cola Company’s beverage portfolio, VIO was introduced by Coca-Cola India in
the year 2016 with the intent to make a ready-to-drink, value-added dairy beverage option available to
the consumers.
VIO Spiced Buttermilk can be conveniently ordered from the comfort of one’s home through leading e-
commerce platforms. It will also be available in stores across Delhi and Chennai, and major towns in
Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, and Maharashtra.
About Coca-Cola India
Coca-Cola in India is one of the country’s leading beverage companies, offering a range of healthy, safe,
high quality, refreshing beverage options to consumers. Since its re-entry in 1993, the company has
been refreshing consumers with its beverage products – Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Zero, Diet Coke, Thums

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Up, Thums Up Charged, Thums Up Charged No Sugar, Fanta, Limca, Sprite, Sprite Zero, Maaza, VIO
flavoured milk, Minute Maid range of juices, Minute Maid Smoothie and Minute Maid Vitingo, Georgia
range of hot and cold tea and coffee options, Aquarius and Aquarius Glucocharge, Schweppes,
smartwater, Kinley and Bonaqua packaged drinking water and Kinley Club Soda. The Company along
with its owned bottling operation and other bottling partners, through a strong network of over 2.6
million retail outlets, touches the lives of millions of consumers, at a rate of more than 500 servings per
second. Its brands are some of the most preferred and most sold beverages in the country – Thums Up
and Sprite – being the top two selling sparkling beverage
The Coca-Cola India system provides direct employment to 25,000 people and indirect employment to
more than 150,000 people. The Coca-Cola system in India is contributing in its own small way to building
sustainable communities through community initiatives like Support My School, VEER, Parivartan and
Unnati and by reducing its own environmental footprint.
For further information on the company's India operations and its products, please visit:http://www.coca- colaindia.comand www.hindustancoca-cola.com. Follow us on twitter at twitter.com/CocaCola_Ind, or
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Kajal Kamal
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Arshya Harjani
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