It’s difficult to say, though Saffron’s sales seem to have been steady in the past year — and Saffron is in the process of acquiring the company of one of India’s biggest coffee growers.
“It was profitable just based on the sales of the business,” said Rajan Ojha, a former Saffron executive. “Saffron’s business was growing. We weren’t losing any money.”
Mr. Ojha, a Delhi native, says that he was working with Saffron at a coffee farm in the eastern state of Madhya Pradesh in 2002 when the state government decided to privatize the farm, after years of trying and failing. At the time Saffron was being acquired for close to $250 million. The purchase was sold to a group that included Anbang Insurance Group, which owns the Indus Waterways Ltd. in Kashmir.
Mr. Ojha was hired to head Saffron for the private buyers. When Aabar, a major supplier of coffee to the Indian market, bought the farm in 2004, Mr. Ojha departed. The company’s then-C.E.O. was also forced to take an exit from the company. And the government was no longer making the sale, according to several former employees.
“There was a lot of tension within the company. People were upset,” said a second former Saffron executive. “The government did not want to sell this company.”
But the deal did happen — at least for now. Saffron is currently in talks with private investors and plans to turn over the Indian market to Tata Beverages Ltd., said the government lawyer involved in the negotiations, Manish K. Khanna, a corporate affairs lawyer for the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. (Tata has a plant in the United States where it sells coffee as well as other items to the Indian market.)
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