Meet the Founder
Biidyut Kuumar Roy · Founder & Lead Consultant
A Senior Food Technologist with 18+ years in the FMCG industry, and the product mind behind BKR Global Consulting — tea tasting, blending, product research, development and quality control.
Biidyut Kuumar Roy
Senior Food Technologist · Founder, BKR Global Consulting
Senior Food Technologist with 18+ years of working experience in the FMCG industry throughout India. The greater part of that career has been spent in tea and value-added teas — tea tasting, blending, product research, development and quality control.
Skilled in negotiation, tea tasting, tea blending, NPD, R&D, vendor development, process development, packaging development, process machinery design and business diversification. Passionate about product innovation — experimenting with ingredients and supporting innovative formulations.
Apart from value-added teas, Biidyut has worked on various seasonings, healthy snacks, flavored milk premix, healthy drinks, vending premix, coffee premix, hot chocolate premix, cooking masala, ready-to-eat food, various soups and functional food & beverages, based on current market demand in India as well as overseas.
He has developed more than 1000 tea blends for overseas buyers, especially for Australia, France, USA, UK, Europe, Russia, Kazakhstan and the Middle East. As a specialist in product research, development and quality control, he loves sharing new product ideas for value-added teas such as flavored tea, herbal tea, Ayurveda tea, tea premix and ice-tea premix. A strong research professional with an MBA focused on Total Quality Management.
Key Skills
Countries Visited
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION
- MBA in Total Quality Management
- B. Tech in Food Technology
- Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Nutrition & Dietics
- Diploma in Food Processing Technology
JOB EXPERIENCE
-
J.V.Gokal & Co Pvt. Ltd as Senior Manager -Flavored Tea
( July 2019 – Feb 2022) -
M.K Jokai Agri Plantations Pvt ltd as Manager – Product Research , Development & Quality Control
( 2015 – June 2019) -
J.V.Gokal & Co Pvt. Ltd as Food & Flavor Technologist
(2011 – 2014) -
Naturexpart of Givaudan (Formerly Valentine Agro Ltd) as Executive Quality Control
(Oct 2008 – 2010 ) -
INDIA Dairy Products Ltd, (Producer & packer of AMUL ) as Technical Officer
( Jan 2008 – Sep 2008)
PROFILE HIGHLIGHTS
Tea tasting – Evaluate the Tea, Tisanes, Flavored teas blend on daily basis and approving for production.
Tea Blending: Black tea, Green tea, Specialty teas, Herbal tea, Floral infusion, Fruit infusions, flavored tea & tea/coffee premix
Tea Packaging: Export packaging i.e., bulk packaging, Tea bagging, premix pouching, gift tea box
Tea buying: Wide exposure of South and North Indian teas, Chinese teas, Kenyan teas and Ceylon teas
Vendor Development: Interaction with overseas herb, flavors suppliers. Supplier audit, updating with standard product specification, Vendor rating.
Tea premix/Coffee premix /Hot chocolate premix/Healthy premix/ Soups– Handling blending and packing of Instant tea premix / ice tea premix/ Haldi milk/ Tomato soup/Mushroom soup/Sweet corn soup etc.
New Product Development & R&D – Develop new products (blends) based on buyer’s requirement and market trends from concept to implementation to launching of the product.
Sourcing/Procurement of Herbs & Flavours – Handling procurement of Flavours and Herbs from various parts of the world i.e. Germany / South Africa / Poland / USA / Australia/Sri Lanka etc also sourcing from domestic market as well.
Manpower Management: Training & Developing tea blenders ,Team handling.
Quality Control of Tea ,Herb& flavors: Incoming raw material inspection, Developing & Defining product specifications, Checklist , SOP , Laboratory manual , Defining Raw material specifications GMP & GHP of shop floor. Mock recall of product, Product traceability etc..
Inventory Management: (1) Stock management & control. (2) Circulation of Weekly stock statement report. (3) Physical stock taking half yearly once. 4 ) sampling for analysis of Revalidation/approval for Blending
Audit & FSSAI: Maintaining quality systems – HACCP,ISO22000,BRC,GMP SA8000,Kosher,Fairtrade,Organic for specialty tea part only. Looking after all critical points and complying all quality parameters with Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (fssai).
Technical : Response customer queries, Answering/mailing to Supplier/buyer regards to quality issue, complaints etc, New product identification, mapping, technical specification & development, Innovative product idea & implementation for regular-life.
Commissioning of new plant : Plant Layout & design ,Commissioning of new plant for iced tea premix , spices powder , flavor teas.
Up-gradation of Warehouse: Implementation of QMS , Commissioning of tea cleaning system.
Packaging Development: Packaging development of conventional teas/specialty teas with vacuum packaging, nitrogen flushing pack, seal-o pack system. New packaging concept. Maintaining of GSM & Thickness test reports of all primary & secondary Packaging Material.
Laboratory set up: New laboratory set up for R&D and food analysis
New Business Development – Sharing new business concept to management.Customer visit, Product tasting , selection , price negotiation.
Alternative farming: Cultivation ofHerb, Cultivation of flower and fruits i.e, horticulture at our T.E – will have cultivated either organically or wild-crafted . Designing a Post harvesting management- i.e, processing & packing unit , Project report on total AFP.
Process Development : Establishment of new process step through study of customer complaint, Process verification , Process validation , implementation of new step to eliminate hazards from final product.
KEY SKILLS
- Tea tasting
- Blending
- Product development
- Formulations
- export packaging
- tea bagging
- tea buying
- warehouse management
- NPD
- R&D
- purchase and procurement of herbs / spices / flavors and other additives
- packaging
- inventory management
- FSSAI
- HACCP
- Audit
- USFDA
- EUMRL
- tea bag machine
- tea and coffee premix formulation
- RTD
- Herbal tea
- Flavored tea
- instant tea
- vendor development
- Quality control
- Process up gradation
- Factory setup
- Laboratory setup
- new business development
- Alternative farming
- Up gradation of warehouse
- New plant commissioning
- team work
- Organic Certification- NOP
- NPOP
- CANADA Organic & EU
- Project management
ACHIEVEMENTS:
- Mutli-origin tea tasting ( Indian teas , Ceylon teas , Kenyan teas , Chinese teas , Vietnam teas & Japanese teas)
- Development of European standard tea blends , UK standard tea blends and Iran Standard teas
- Developed more than 1000 value added tea successfully.
- Handling almost 500 odd SKU’S for different internationally reputed clients like Disney, Revolution, Lifted Cup,Wal-Mart, Nordqvist , Follis , BKI Food, MOT, Axxcent Master , MSRF & Life Brand.
- Developed varieties of instant tea & coffee premix blend.
- Well conversant with ERP (Oracle 11i)
- Successfully developed a project on Natural green color (Chlorophyll).
- Process improvement in spray drying system.
- Trials conducted & product approved at companies HLL, HEINZ, CADBURY, FRITOLAYS, KELOGGS, GSK, BRITTANNIA etc.
- Attended customers visit like HLL, HEINZ, BRITANIA and GSK.
- Attended International Visit from DYNA FOODS, France.
- Doing third party blending operation (Orchard Brand food Pvt Ltd) for vista processed food.
Work With Biidyut
Have a product idea, a blend to perfect or a process to sharpen? Let’s talk it through.