City distillery Khoday rejigs its positioning in alcobev industry, after remaining sober for over a decade

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Khoday India, a homegrown steadfast started successful 1906 that aboriginal started making a wide assortment of alcoholic beverages, has embarked connected a marque rejig, aft remaining sober successful the marketplace for implicit a decade.

The 119-year-old House of Khodays has announced enlargement of its distillery disconnected Kanakpura Road and accumulation facilities crossed the country. To commencement with, the institution volition infuse ₹50 crore to money these expansions.

New brands

The steadfast besides said it would soon present a slew of caller brands to reenforce its existing enactment successful the Indian alcobev industry. New products include: 3 brands of Indian single malt whiskey, a luxury rum, and others.

To awesome the opening of its revived market push, House of Khodays launched Red Knight Premium Blended Whisky. The upgraded blend besides features a refreshed logo, label, and bottle, said Aditya Khoday, the 5th procreation distiller successful the household and besides a director.

According to him, Red Knight was primitively introduced successful 1967 and was the archetypal whisky to beryllium placed successful the CSD Defence Canteens. Back then, Khoday Distilleries were visited by Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa and Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, to personally inspect them, Mr. Aditya Khoday told The Hindu.

Earlier speaking astatine a media get-together, Swamy Khoday, managing director, Khoday India, said the steadfast volition soon present respective caller brands to reenforce their enactment successful the Indian alcobev industry.

Narrating the way to Peter Scot Whisky, 1 of the iconic brands from Khoday stable, Mr. Aditya Khoday said it was his grandfather, the eldest Khoday, Ramachandra, who travelled to Scotland successful the aboriginal 1960s and brought a celebrated whisky expert, Peter Warren, who successful Bengaluru created a statement whose archetypal sanction was his ain name.

Khoday, arsenic portion of diversification, is besides readying to participate into lifesciences. 

Brothers who started

When the Khoday brothers, Ramachandra, Srihari (the astir flamboyant Khoday who wore respective hats, of an industrialist, philanthropist, litterateur filmmaker and euphony enthusiast), Padmanabh and Swamy founded Khodays Group implicit a period ago, the steadfast for a fewer years focused connected silk, silk products, agro-products, and stationery products. Later, it exited each those businesses and consolidated on liquor business..

Published - December 16, 2025 12:20 americium IST

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