1. Hallal CertificationHallal is the priority to ensure our Muslim customers safety and convenience.Warna sugars, Godavari sugars and also other leading groups of North India have gone for Hallalcertification seeing the growing market and to capture this segment of market with differentiation.How can sugar be Hallal? It is because there is no use of animal bones in the refining or bleachingor colouring process while other companies use itSugar consumption usually rises during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan as families gather to breaktheir fast from dawn to sunset over festive meals. The Islamic world is rapidly going through aparadigm shift as far as brands and consumerism are concerned.As more and more companies look at expanding their footprints in the global Islamic market, whichaccounts for around 23 per cent of the worlds population and is projected to grow to about 35 percent in the next 20 years, brand managers and marketing heads need to study and analyse the religionthat dictates so much of public life and its associated values.Companies that fail to understand these few but essential tenets are unlikely to taste success inmarkets. For instance, sports goods Major Nike had to recall a whole range of sports shoes for carryinga logo that offended Islamic sentiments.India is home to more than 175 million Muslims and has the third-largest community of Muslimconsumers in the world after Indonesia and Pakistan. But its market in regard to the choices of Hallal-endorsed products among mainstream brands is still highly untapped. According to estimates by thePew Research group, Muslim population in India is projected to increase from 177.3 million in 2010to 236.2 million in 2030. And the share of Muslims in Indias population is expected to increasefrom 14.6% in 2010 to 15.9% in 2030.More than one in ten of the worlds Muslims, 10.8%, will live in India in 2030, about the same as in2010. Most Muslim households have middle-level expenditure abilities. Compared to rural Muslims,counterparts in urban areas have better economic conditions. But the masses live in rural areas. Thepercentage-wise distribution of urban Muslims annual per capita expenditure is 25 per cent for belowRs 5,280, 47 per cent between Rs 5,281 and Rs 10,320, 22 per cent between Rs 10,321 and Rs 19,560and 6 per cent above Rs 19,561 in 2004-05. For the same period, the annual per capita expenditurefor rural Muslims was below Rs 4,110 for 23 per cent, Rs 4,111 to Rs 5,790 for 32 per cent, Rs5,791 to Rs 9,480 for 36 per cent and above Rs 9,481 for 9 per cent.The majority of Muslims prefer to buy only Hallal-certified products. Further, an increasedawareness in recent years among Muslim consumers about what they see as religious obligationshas expanded the demand for Hallal items. Indian Muslims have 15 per cent share in the consumermarket, going by their population. But keeping the constraints of their economic conditions, it isassumed that Muslim consumers have only 10 per cent share of the overall private consumptionexpenditure of India. Based on the share of Muslims, the estimated consumption is shown in theaccompanying table.

2. Muslims are permitted to use products with vegetarian logos from India by default since these do notcontain Haram, the opposite of Hallal, elements. To certify that products are authentic Hallal, it isnecessary to regard the processed and contaminated products where the ambiguity of Haramingredients is high due to change in shape. It is pertinent to note that introduction of the Hallal tagwith conventional products is not an identity campaign for Muslims but only intends to includeMuslim consumers who might have been left out due to religious limitations.If Asia is seeing the emergence of a new, modern Muslim consumer how best to reach them? On themost basic level, more and more brands are ensuring their products meet Hallal certification in variousmarkets. This is understandable. The global Hallal industry was estimated by the World HallalCouncil to have been worth US$632 billion in 2009.Worlds first Hallal certified sugar from India which contains no Islamically forbidden ingredients hasentered the Gulf region.Warana Sugar Gulf Trading, which is part of Warana Sugar (India), has unveiledits Hallal certified sugar yesterday also announced plans to penetrate the Gulf Cooperation Council(GCC) market this year, immediately after launching in the UAE.GCC includes Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, theUnited Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar and Bahrain. In the Middle East, there is currently a shortage incapacity of about 3 Million MT of sugar while the EUs consumption requirement is forecasted at about 2million MT in the next 2-3 years.Industry estimates published in 2009 revealed that the UAEs sugar consumption is at nearly 140,000tonnes per year, calculated based on the annual per capita sugar consumption of 34 kilograms peryear, which is higher than the world average of 24 kilograms. The regions annual sugar consumption isat 12 million tonnes, of which 8.5 million are imported.