Pailan Group / Ascon Agro Products Ltd.

Company Description

The Pailan Group markets the potato flakes produced by Ascon Agro Products Ltd..

Ascon Agro Products Ltd., jointly owned by the Pailan Group and Steel & Power company SPS, operates a potato flakes processing plant in Dhaniakhali in the Hooghly district, West Bengal, India. Potato flakes are exported and marketed locally, using the POTO brand.

The Pailan Group is a multi-faceted and multi-disciplinary organization with its core strengths in Education, Food Processing, Shipping, Aviation, Real estate/Township development and Media & Entertainment.

By venturing into a key agricultural development area, the Pailan Group is reiterating its commitment to the development of West Bengal. To this end, the Group has taken the lead in extending the reach of the humble potato into a major enterprise which will benefit farmers on the one hand and create a new brand of food product that will excite the new wave of consumers looking for fast and nourishing supplements.

Product Types offered by this company

- Dehydrated Potato Products
- - Potato Flakes

News for this Company

April 23, 2013

Pailan Group enters Maharashtra market with POTO potato flakes

Kolkata-based Pailan Group on Monday entered the Maharashtra market with its popular product POTO potato flakes along with three new exciting ready-to-cook products - aloo Tikki, aloo bonda and aloo cutlet.

February 27, 2013

Star studded launch of 'poto' potato flakes in India

Tollywood diva Rituparna Sengupta, soccer star and ex-captain of India's national football team Baichung Bhutia, sports minister Madan Mitra, politician Sadhan Pandey and Pailan group head Apurba Saha were present at the launch of "Poto"pota...

December 19, 2010

Pailan Group (India) exports potato flakes to Israel

Israel is getting a taste of potatoes grown in Hooghly (West-Bengal, India). Recently, 40 tonnes of potato flakes, processed and packaged at the Pailan Group plant was shipped to Israel on a trial basis.

April 05, 2008

SPS takes over Pailan's Potato Flake unit

The Rs 2000-crore SPS Group, with interests in steel, hotels and biscuits among other things, has taken over a potato flakes project set up by Apurba Saha's Pailan group, another diversified outfit that is into education, aviation, township developmen...