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Mrs Bectors Food | The company baking buns for the big fast food chains

2026.09.19

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Mrs Bectors Food Specialities, headquartered in Ludhiana, Punjab, is a biscuit and bakery company. It owns the "Cremica" biscuit brand and the "English Oven" bread brand, and also has a foodservice pillar supplying buns to major QSR chains, cloud kitchens, and multiplex cinemas. Consolidated revenue for FY2026 (year ended March 2026) was ₹2,044 crore (1 crore = 10 million rupees), up from ₹1,874 crore the prior year. Retail revenue is harder to predict, while foodservice revenue scales with the number of stores a client runs and is easier to forecast, so holding both smooths out plant utilization. It also exports, with biscuits for overseas Indian grocery stores making up a certain share.

This article is based on what we could verify As of September 19, 2026 This page is based on the disclosures and news reports from each company that we were able to confirm as of that date. Amounts in the text follow the notation commonly used in India, with ₹1 crore = 10 million rupees, and yen figures are approximations calculated at a little over 1.7 yen to the rupee. Store counts, funding raised, and results at Indian companies change over short periods, so when making a business decision, please check the latest information in primary sources such as each company's own announcements.

Mrs Bectors Food Specialities is a listed company that owns the "Cremica" biscuit brand and the "English Oven" bread brand. At the same time, it's a foodservice supplier of buns to major fast food chains and cloud kitchens.

Company profile

Item	Details
Legal name	Mrs Bectors Food Specialities Limited
Headquarters	Punjab (the registered head office is in Phillaur; operations are based in Ludhiana)
Consolidated revenue	₹2,044 crore (FY2026 = fiscal year ending March 2026; about 35.6 billion yen). FY2025 was ₹1,874 crore
Main brands	Cremica (biscuits), English Oven (bread and confectionery)
Business-to-business	Supply to major QSR chains, cloud kitchens, and multiplex cinemas
Listing	Listed on the BSE and NSE

It holds both retail and foodservice

Beyond consumer biscuits and bread, it has a foodservice pillar of buns for fast food chains. These two are different in nature. Retail is hard to forecast because it competes for shelf space and requires ad spend. Foodservice scales with the number of stores a client runs, making shipment volume easy to predict.

Holding both makes it easier to smooth out plant utilization. It can run foodservice to fill in when retail demand dips. Consolidated revenue for FY2026 (year ended March 2026) was ₹2,044 crore, up from ₹1,874 crore in FY2025.

It also exports, and biscuits for Indian grocery stores overseas account for a certain share.

Why buns are a difficult product

For a restaurant chain, a hamburger bun is a component that determines both taste and appearance. Unless it arrives every day at the same size, color, and springiness, stores nationwide won't serve the same product. And it doesn't keep long.

India is vast, and some regions see temperatures above 45 degrees in midsummer. Ship it chilled, freeze and thaw it, or build a plant in each region — this choice determines how far a chain can expand. A bun supplier becomes directly involved in a chain's store-opening plans.

Points for Japanese companies

When starting a restaurant chain in India, who bakes the bread or buns is a question decided early on. Building an in-house plant comes only after the store count has grown to a certain level; before that, it's outsourced.

When approaching the company, what needs checking is whether it runs frozen or ambient-temperature logistics, which cities it can reach, what the minimum order quantity is, and how far it will go to accommodate spec changes. If a Japanese-style bread (dough formulation and texture) is wanted, that needs to be worked out from the prototyping stage.