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Nambisan’s, est. 1932 — Slow goodness, naturally
Since 1932

The best ghee in your kitchen!

Made the way it has been made for ninety-four years — pure cow butter, a slow flame, and patience. Slow goodness, naturally.

  • 94years of tradition
  • ✓Agmark graded
  • 30K+stores in India
Hands holding a jar of Nambisan’s Pure Cow Ghee with a spoonful of golden, granular ghee
We are different

Meet the jars

Two products, one promise. Each is made to a recipe we would serve at our own table, and labelled with exactly what is inside.

Ghee

Pure Cow Ghee

Pure cow butter from the milk belt of South India, simmered slowly for its grain and aroma.

1932

The year Mr. M.K. Nambisan began the D.V. Dairy Farm.

Seen on TV
A family meal with a jar of Nambisan’s on the table

A name families remember

Nambisan’s brings to mind the fondest moments a family spends together, festival after festival.

Find a store

30,000+ shops across India and partners in six Gulf markets.

The slow way

There is only one way to make ghee

Scroll on — the picture follows the jar from butter to your table.

A bowl of golden ghee with fresh flowers on a clothGolden ghee pouring from a spoon into a brass vesselA spoonful of granular ghee lifted from the jarA sealed jar of Nambisan’s Pure Cow Ghee
  1. 01

    Butter from the milk belt

    It starts with the best of the dairy produce from the milk belt of South India — pure cow butter, and nothing else.

  2. 02

    A slow, gentle flame

    The butter is heated gently over a slow flame and left to simmer — four days from butter to jar — until the milk solids turn gold and the aroma fills the room.

  3. 03

    The grain forms itself

    Filtered and left to cool at its own pace, the ghee settles into the fine, natural grain that tells you it was never rushed.

  4. 04

    Checked, packed, yours

    Tasted and tested at our Perundurai plant, then sealed with a batch number and best-before date — ready for your table.

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Pick your jar

A size for every kitchen

From a 50 ml jar by the stove to a 15 litre tin for the sweet shop down the road — every pack holds exactly the same goodness.

Our most-loved jar, and the one that won the IndiaStar Award for its pack.

In the kitchen

For every dish you cook

Nambisan’s Ghee enhances the taste of every dish. Swipe for a few of our favourites.

Ghee poured over hot rice
Everyday

Hot rice & dhal

A spoonful over steaming rice is the oldest comfort food there is.

Cooking with ghee in a sunlit kitchen
Tempering

The perfect tadka

Mustard, cumin and curry leaves crackling in hot ghee — then straight over sambar or dal.

Ghee pouring from a spoon
Roasting

Ghee roast dosa

Crisp edges, golden centre, and the aroma that brings everyone to the kitchen.

Honey on a breakfast board
Breakfast

Toast, dosa & curd

Spread it on bread as a wholesome alternative to jam, or drizzle it over thick curd.

Honey jar beside a palm frond
Warm drinks

Lemon, tea & milk

Stir into warm water with lemon, or into tea once it’s off the boil, in place of sugar.

Since 1932

The Story of Just 94 Years

Swipe through the moments that made the name — from a dairy farm in 1932 to kitchens across the Gulf.

1932

Mr. M.K. Nambisan starts the Nambisan’s D.V. Dairy Farm

The partnership firm builds its name slowly and steadily, and establishes itself as a pioneer in quality dairy products.

The Nambisan’s emblem, est. 1932
1964

Nambisan’s Dairy Pvt. Ltd. is incorporated

The new company takes over the partnership firm. Over the decades it grows to more than 30,000 retail outlets and nearly three hundred distributors across South India, with around 4,000 outlets outside India.

Stacked cartons of Nambisan’s ghee
2000

The Board is reconstituted

A new Board brings a radical change in the sales pattern and strengthens the brand through campaigns on television, digital media and radio.

A growth chart rising from an open hand
2015

A new ghee pack, designed in Italy

The refreshed pack goes on to win the IndiaStar Award for the best packaging in India.

The award-winning Nambisan’s ghee pack
2016

A state-of-the-art ghee plant

Our plant at the SIPCOT Industrial Growth Centre, Perundurai, designed in Europe, is commissioned. The same year, exports of ghee to the Middle East begin.

Inside the Nambisan’s ghee plant at Perundurai
2020

Nambisan’s Wildflower Honey is launched

The second product to carry the name, made to the same promise: sweet, not sugary, and nothing added.

Nambisan’s Wildflower Honey with a jar of ghee
Today

From Erode to the Gulf

Nambisan’s is on shelves across India and the Andamans, and in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar — still made the slow way.

Flags of the six GCC markets Nambisan’s serves
94Years of unbroken tradition
30,000+Retail outlets across India
300Distributors in India, near enough
4,000+Outlets beyond India
Nambisan’s Products

Powered by the H.E.A.R.T Promise

Five principles guide everything we make, from the first churn of butter to the words on the jar. Together they describe one idea: the way it was truly meant to be.

H

Heritage

The traditional Indian way of making — the method the family has kept since 1932.

E

Efficiency

Technology enables the efficient processes that drive the system, so tradition reaches more homes without shortcuts.

A

Aroma

Wafting with natural aroma — the clearest sign that the butter was given the time it needed.

R

Real

Free from synthetic additives, unadulterated. Completely natural.

T

Time

Unrushed, allowing nature to do its work.

Seen on TV

Our films

Nine television commercials for ghee and honey. Each plays only when you press play.

The Music DirectorGhee · 30 sec
One + OneHoney · 30 sec · Malayalam
Nambisan’s HoneyHoney · 25 sec
The PoliticianHoney
The DirectorHoney
SupermarketGhee · 30 sec · Tamil
Couple — Part 2Ghee · 20 sec · Tamil
Couple — Part 1Ghee · 30 sec · Tamil
Biryani MakingGhee · 30 sec

Our YouTube channel

Pan India and Exports

Stock Nambisan’s

Around three hundred distributors already carry us across India, and partners in all six GCC markets. Tell us your market and volumes — the trade desk will come back with packs and terms.

Nambisan’s Pure Cow Ghee and Wildflower Honey jars beneath a palm leaf