Major Chinese dairy producers say sales recovering
Sunday, 19 October 2008
HOHHOT, Oct. 17 (Xinhua): Two major Chinese dairy producers said yesterday sales have recovered to 80 per cent of the normal level before the tainted milk scandal.
The companies of Yili and Mengniu, both based in the northern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and each realized more than 20 billion yuan (2.9 billion U.S. dollars) in sales revenue last year, made the remarks here on Thursday during a group interview by domestic and foreign journalists.
"We felt heart-broken over the milk crisis and drew a bitter lesson from it," Yili's executive president Zhang Jianqiu said, adding the companies had taken measures to ensure its products free of melamine, an industrial chemical added to sub-standard or diluted milk to make the protein levels appear higher.
Yang Wenjun, president of Mengniu, said the company's sales drastically dropped by 96 per cent in the first couple of days after the tainted milk scandal broke out in mid September.
In a bid to ensure quality, Mengniu installed Global Position System (GPS) on every milk truck and monitored the milk collection centers around the clock after the scandal broke out.
The companies of Yili and Mengniu, both based in the northern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and each realized more than 20 billion yuan (2.9 billion U.S. dollars) in sales revenue last year, made the remarks here on Thursday during a group interview by domestic and foreign journalists.
"We felt heart-broken over the milk crisis and drew a bitter lesson from it," Yili's executive president Zhang Jianqiu said, adding the companies had taken measures to ensure its products free of melamine, an industrial chemical added to sub-standard or diluted milk to make the protein levels appear higher.
Yang Wenjun, president of Mengniu, said the company's sales drastically dropped by 96 per cent in the first couple of days after the tainted milk scandal broke out in mid September.
In a bid to ensure quality, Mengniu installed Global Position System (GPS) on every milk truck and monitored the milk collection centers around the clock after the scandal broke out.