Updated October 2026: our registered office has since moved to our factory at Kallarpe. See “Looking back in 2026” at the end.
On World Coconut Day, 2 September 2010, Cocoguru Coconut Industries Private Limited was incorporated to take the work of Sri Rama Industries to the next level. Here is why we formed a company, and what we planned to do next.
Company facts
| Name | Cocoguru Coconut Industries Private Limited |
| Incorporated | 2 September 2010 (World Coconut Day) |
| Registered office (2010) | IV-616, Sri Rama Building, Main Road, Yelmudi, Puttur taluk, Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka 574201 |
| Promoters | Shivashankar Bhat (Chairman), Keshava Ram (Managing Director), Santhosha (Director), Gayathri Devi (Director) |
Why the name “Cocoguru Coconut Industries”?
Cocoguru’s brand vision is simple: “spreading the benefits of coconut to people”. Sri Rama Industries introduced the brand in 2009 to focus on making coconut products. Now that business has moved into a company of its own. Using the same name for the product and the company keeps our branding simple.
Each word of the name has a reason:
- Cocoguru: our trademark and brand name.
- Coconut: our vision and brand are built around the coconut.
- Industries: we make things, not just trade and market them.
Why a private limited company?
We did not have to form a company. A company costs more to set up and to keep compliant, all our promoters and top managers are from one family, and we have no outside investors.
We chose a private limited company anyway, because it:
- keeps personal and business affairs clearly separate;
- lets us raise equity if loans are not enough;
- makes professional management possible, with people appointed on merit, so the promoters can hand over day-to-day work; and
- fits our plan to grow, and one day to become a public limited company.
What happens to Sri Rama Industries?
Sri Rama Industries is a proprietorship started by Shivashankar Bhat in 1988 to make coconut oil. The new company has been formed to take its efforts to the next level and spread its wings. Sri Rama Industries will carry on with what it has been doing:
- its mill at Parladka will crush copra on job work, so local farmers can get oil from their own copra;
- its shop and copra collection centre at Yelmudi will sell Cocoguru products locally and buy copra for the company;
- the first floor of the Yelmudi building will be rented to the company as its registered office; and
- it will continue trade outside coconut, such as sesame oil, pepper and honey.
Our plans for the first year
- Build a new factory on a new site to make and pack coconut oil.
- Make it modern and highly mechanised, meeting the ISO 22000 food safety standard.
- Install copra crushing capacity of 15 tonnes every 24 hours.
- Get all licences and start production within six months.
- Spread Cocoguru’s distribution across Dakshina Kannada.
- Begin selling edible copra and by-products such as oil cake and second-quality copra.
We were incorporated on 2 September, World Coconut Day — a fitting start for a business built on the coconut. We seek the blessings and abundance (kalpa) of the Kalpavriksha for a bright and fruitful future.
Looking back in 2026
- Our factory at Kallarpe, Aryapu, began commercial production in December 2011, and our registered office later moved there: Door No. 5-122/B, Kallarpe, Aryapu Post and Village, Puttur taluk, Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka 574210.
- It crushes 15 tonnes of copra every 24 hours, as planned.
- We obtained ISO 22000 certification, but did not renew it, as we found it added little value.
- Cocoguru is now sold across coastal Karnataka, in supermarkets and online.
- Sri Rama Industries still collects farmers’ copra at Yelmudi and crushes it on job work at Parladka.