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DIVE INTO THE MOST INSPIRING SUCCESS STORY OF HALDIRAM

This is one of the most inspiring stories for the youths and the upcoming generation. Everything is possible with dedication and effort will take you towards success whatever obstacles come to life, you have to be focused on the goal and do every possible work to make it possible and finally achieve an objective like Haldiram’s. The founder hails from a small village Bikaner where he used to sell Bhujia in his father’s shop in 1918, but now Haldiram’s has become one of the famous International brands with annual revenue of Rs 7,130 crores, selling its products globally. Needless to say, today it has become a multibillion-dollar company. Its story inspires us to always look for the positive side of every incident to reach the pinnacle of success. Whatever, happens in life happens for good.

Keeping that in mind, let’s most inspiring story of Haldiram

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The Initial Phase Of Haldiram

The founder of this company Ganga Bhishen Agarwal was initially called by the name Haldiram Ji and at the beginning, he used to work in his father’s shop and sold namkeen bhujia as instructed by his father and aunts. Haldiram’s marriage was done at an early age but on the behest of his wife, he had to leave the house because of some household quarrels in 1946, Haldiram started his first shop and started selling Bikaneri Bhujia, but this time he brought some changes to its flavours and to make it tasty to eat he added little moth flour in its making and also made it thinner to make it little more crunchy to eat and as just by his idea the namkeen was loved by so many new customers and his sales increased by day by day. He kept on experimenting with the taste of bhujia and by its success Haldiram when goes to attend the marriage in Kolkata there he gets an idea of opening a shop and by this initiative, his first step towards the branching of his Bikaner Bhujia business is started and bypassing of time his business started to spread in parts of Nagpur and some of the capitals and by this success, there is no looking back took place in his life as his business started to grow more and more and he gets enough profit from it by attracting so many customers towards their shop and by here the success of Haldiram started.

HALDIRAM SHOP’S EXPANSION

For any business to spread in the market and stick its root in the market its expansion is very necessary to build the business so after Haldiram business expands in Nagpur and Delhi, the business also expands in many more cities of India as well as foreign countries. The Haldiram company has mainly appeared in three areas Kolkata, Delhi, Nagpur in comparison to the other two the Delhi business growth rate is highest. In 1993, the company exportation of products spreads to more than 50 countries including the US. And in 2003, the multicrore company get the certification of the most trusted brand industry and the company started to work in all four directions of the country mostly acquire the entire northern region but little weak in the southern region which is not come in that success mark even after doing so many attempts in comparison to other three regions in this process of success their family support and helps is always there they are to lead and key people of the company who works a lot to bring the best in the quality of every product. In 2017, this company got a tag of countries largest snack company and left many domestic and international companies behind and comes as India’s largest snacks company.

Haldiram Revenue

The revenue of the Haldiram business is INR 7,130 crore in a year and is more than the total revenue of both McDonald’s and Domino’s. The Haldirams product quality and taste itself lead the business towards growth because no advertisement and promotions are done for publicity of the product.

• Type - Private

• Founder - Ganga Bhishen Agarwal

• Headquarters - Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

• Industry - Food

• Revenue – INR 7,130 crore (US$950 million) (2019)

• Founded - 1941

Haldiram Products

Haldiram’s business firstly started with Bhujia Namkeen but later on by seeing the tremendous success of the company it started to include many more products like Haldiram sweets (Rashgula, Basin Laddu, Gulab Jamun) snacks (Aalo Bhujia, Khata Mitha, Namkeen, Peanuts), Papadum, Cookies, Pickles, Chips, Dry Fruits, and the company also started its outlet restaurants in Kolkata, Noida, Delhi, Nagpur, and Pune. It is called Haldirams, an Indian snacks, sweets and restaurant company. Owing to the taste and variety in food products, the customers buy its product due to which the company is benefitted a lot. Many more products are yet to come in future also as the company keeps on practising and always ready to bring some new variety with a little twist in its flavour.

Obstacles Come In The Path Of The Success Of The Haldiram Company

Every success has its ups and downs and success cant be achieved in one day it takes many sleepless nights and it also takes time and effort the way of success is never be smooth just like that this company also have to go through many challenges like in the year 2015 when ban in Maggie occurs at that time many products of Haldiram is also banned by regulatory of food authority that brings lost in the profit of the company and 2015, FDA of India after several tests gave the Haldiram company a clean chit and after that company take an initiative to tie-up with companies and it also provided food facilities to the passengers in partnership with Indian railway and by that the company success rate again comes in places.