Frooti is a mango-flavoured drink sold in
India
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. It is made with natural flavours and mango-concentrate. It is the
flagship product
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and most successful drink product made by
Parle Agro
Parle Agro Private Limited (stylised as Parlé Agro) is an Indian company that owns Frooti, Appy, LMN, Hippo and Bailley brands.
History
Parle Agro is an offshoot of Parle Products, which was founded in 1929 in British India. It was owned ...
. Frooti was launched in 1985 in
Tetra Pak
Tetra Pak is a Swedish–Swiss multinational food packaging and processing company with head offices in Lund, Sweden, and Pully, Switzerland. The company offers packaging, filling machines and processing for dairy, beverages, cheese, ice cream ...
packaging, and is now also sold in
PET
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bottles and rectangular shaped packs. Frooti is exported to the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the
United Arab Emirates
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, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Maldives, Singapore, Thailand, New Zealand, Australia, Mozambique, Ghana, Malawi, Zambia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Japan, and Ireland.
History
Frooti was launched in a green rectangular
Tetra Pak
Tetra Pak is a Swedish–Swiss multinational food packaging and processing company with head offices in Lund, Sweden, and Pully, Switzerland. The company offers packaging, filling machines and processing for dairy, beverages, cheese, ice cream ...
as a ready-to-serve mango drink. Frooti was not the first mango drink, but quickly won a large market share, with 25.6% of market share as of June 2020.
The tagline "Mango Frooti, Fresh and Juicy", was created by the marketing duo of Arun Lahori and GM Menon, whose brief as the brand's communications agency was to "make mango Frooti synonymous with freshness and juiciness".
Other slogans used by the brand have included: "Fresh and juicy got to be Frooti", and "Juice Up your Life".
The drink has been advertised by
Allu Arjun
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,
Alia Bhatt
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, and
Shah Rukh Khan
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. The brand spent 40% more on its
marketing
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in 2013.
Ingredients
The drink contains
mango pulp,
water
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,
sugar
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,
citric acid
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,
ascorbic acid
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,
salt
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, colouring and flavouring. Frooti contains 33.7 grams of sugar per 250 mL.
Packaging
Frooti is offered in size variants: , and and
Tetra Pak
Tetra Pak is a Swedish–Swiss multinational food packaging and processing company with head offices in Lund, Sweden, and Pully, Switzerland. The company offers packaging, filling machines and processing for dairy, beverages, cheese, ice cream ...
. A consumer study indicated that consumers wanted a recap bottle, which did not previously exist in the mango drink segment. In response,
Parle Agro
Parle Agro Private Limited (stylised as Parlé Agro) is an Indian company that owns Frooti, Appy, LMN, Hippo and Bailley brands.
History
Parle Agro is an offshoot of Parle Products, which was founded in 1929 in British India. It was owned ...
launched Frooti in a hygienic hot fill PET bottle. Frooti is now available in various sizes of PET bottles, including 200 mL, 250 mL, 500 mL, 600 mL, 1.2 L and 2 L.
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Indian drink brands
Juice brands