Do you remember your last grocery shopping spree? 

Surely, you would have come across several fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) like the famous maggi, canned products such as beverages and foods, baked goodies, ready to eat meals, medicines, cosmetics, electronic products, work tools like pens and markers, different fruits and vegetables or even soaps.

All of these categories of products are known as FMCG products or CPG. They accumulate segments of mainly three whole categories under the FMCG umbrella which include.

• 1. Health care products
  
• 2. Personal care and household products 
• 3. Food and beverages products

Although these fast-moving consumer goods products have a less shelf-life, they do move into our hands very often.  As they are distributed widely and frequently in both urban and rural areas of the country. 

The FMCG sector is claimed to be one of the largest contributors to India’s annual GDP, and also one of the fastest-growing markets in India. 

The market size and share of the FMCG sector in India 

According to Statista the growth rate of FMCG was 9.4%  in the financial year 2019-20.

The market size and value of FMCG products have been growing at a staggering rate over the years and is currently worth 110 billion dollars and is expected to reach about 220 billion dollars by the year 2025

Great corporations have over the years gained chunks of the market within the country.

Here are some popular brands and their market share within the FMCG industry.

1. 1. ITC with a 30% market share 
2. 2. Hindustan Unilever with 14%
3. 3. Nestle with 5%
4. 4. Britannia with 1%
5. 5. Dabur with 2%
6. 6. Godrej group with 2%
7. 7. Marcio with 5%
8. 8. Amul with 4%
9. 9. Parle products with 7%
10. 10. Emami with 2%
11. 11. GlaxoSmithKline with 1%
12. 12. Colgate-Palmolive with 1%

Career opportunities in FMCG

In the FMCG industry, there is a lot of potential hiring done every year in different operations within the industry.

Creating diverse career opportunities for young aspirants and freshers within the fast-moving consumer goods sector.

Marketing, product management, research and development, sales, human resources, retailer-oriented roles, and many other types of career opportunities are widely available across the country.

But Why does the FMCG sector need you?

They need you to help them curate unique innovations with creativity in manufacturing CPG products.

It is constantly required to give rise to products that are correctly segmented and made user-friendly for the consumer in this fast-paced industry. 

They produce new FMCG products to meet the demands of the growing market and fill their pockets with an ROI of five to eight times high.

But to crack a job in an FMCG niche, one should have at least a master's degree in business or other relevant degrees or diplomas to be suitable for the applied designation.

Unless your choice is sales, as the growing brands hire sales executives in bulk to help them run their operations all over the country.

And the qualification criteria may only include your secondary education. 

And a little hands-on experience in sales will be a plus point in nailing your desired opportunity.

Not only sales but there are other career opportunities available within the FMCG category, which may include the following  

1. 1. Sales manager 
2. 2. Stock control manager 
3. 3. Data analyst 
4. 4. Marketing manager 
5. 5. Retail consumer 
6. 6. Retail associate 
7. 7. Finance manager 
8. 8. Business development 
9. 9. Supply chain manager 

FMCG distributors at Trade raise.

The FMCG industry is a great sector if you are looking for a career change, a promotional raise or even a distribution professional. At trade raise, you can start your journey as a distributor and become our business partner.