India Glycols Limited’s Gorakhpur unit has entered the Asia Book of Records for the highest annual sales of a country liquor brand by a single manufacturing unit. The brand behind the feat, Bunty Bubbly, closed fiscal year 2025–26 at 18,434,799 cases, containing 829,565,955 pieces, a figure ratified by the UP Excise Department.
What makes the number stand out is where it came from: one unit, not a network of plants. Since 2022–23, Bunty Bubbly’s annual case count has climbed from 1.63 crore to 1.72 crore, then 1.83 crore, and now 1.84 crore for 2025–26 four straight years of record sales out of the same Gorakhpur facility. Holding that pace while keeping quality standards steady is, by the company’s own account, the harder part of the story.
A single-unit record of this size signals how deep demand for country liquor runs in Uttar Pradesh’s largest market and how much production discipline it takes to keep meeting it, year after year.
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The Asia Book of Records confirmed and presented the honour on July 15, 2026. Business Head S.K. Shukla, who leads IGL’s liquor business out of Gorakhpur, has steered the brand through this run of consecutive records. Mr. Shukla credited the achievement to the company Chairman’s guiding vision and the sustained effort of every employee at the Gorakhpur unit, adding that the team is already eyeing the next record, while Plant Head Shailendra Pandey has overseen the production floor that turns out the volumes behind the numbers, with Atul Pandey, Marketing and Operations Manager, directing the ground effort across distillation, bottling and dispatch. Together, their teams are the ones who actually deliver 82.9 crore individual pieces without a slip in consistency.
Bunty Bubbly, made from a rose-and-lime recipe, has been on the market since 2006 and today holds a leading share of IGL’s country liquor portfolio in Uttar Pradesh, a state where the brand has become close to a household name in the segment. Congratulations to the entire IGL Gorakhpur team leadership and shop floor alike on an achievement built on sustained teamwork and production discipline.
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