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THE BOMBAY BURMAH TRADING CORPORATION, LIMITED

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THE BOMBAY BURMA TRADING CORPORATION, LIMITED The Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation Limited (BBTCL) is a 150-year-old company, which founded its fortunes on teak in the year 1863, as a public company. The company is a leading concern of the Wadia Group, a reputed Indian business house with interests in plantations, foods, textiles, chemicals, electronics and light engineering, healthcare and real estate. Bombay Burmah, Bombay Dyeing and Britannia are the mastheads of the Wadia Group. It is the second oldest publicly quoted company. The Company has diversified its interests into tea, coffee, other plantation products, biscuit and dairy products, auto electric and white goods parts, weighing products, horticulture and landscaping services, healthcare products (viz.) dental, orthopaedic and ophthalmic products. Its dark green colour emblem is a monogram using the letters B and B. The letters are treated as feathers of a peacock and are supported by a profile of the

COFFEE BOARD

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COFFEE BOARD The Coffee Board was set up under Section (4) of the Coffee Act, 1942. The Board is headed by a Chairman and functions from Bangalore. The Board administers four Regional Coffee Research Stations, a Coffee Research Institute, a number of Regional Field Stations and Coffee Demonstrations Farms. The primary functions of the Board include formulating and implementing programmes and projects for growth and development of the coffee industry; promoting coffee consumption in India and exports in the international market; supporting research; extension and developmental activities for raising productivity; evolving pest and disease resistant varieties; and prescribing and enforcing quality standards at all stages. The coffee brown coloured logo has the map of India in the centre surrounded by two concentric circle bearing the name in Devanagari and English. At the bottom is a coffee cup with saucer has got a pair of wreaths of coffee stem with leaves.