MANOHAR LAL AGARWAL

MENTOR CMD - HALDIRAM SNACKS PVT LTD

Manoharlal Agarwal is one of the most passionate persons about betterment of the mithai and namkeen industry. He is always in the frontline for any cause of this industry. Due to his efforts today FSNM has reach to this level. Mr Agarwal has a great team in his office consists his brothers, Sons and Nephews.

Haldiram's has its roots established in 1937 in the form of a small retail Sweet & Namkeen shop in Bikaner, Rajasthan, a small but significant town in the Thar Desert.

Haldiram's is a major Indian sweets and snacks manufacturer based in Delhi. The company has manufacturing plants in Nagpur, New Delhi and Bikaner.


SHYAM SUNDER AGARWAL

MENTOR CMD - BIKANERVALA

Shyam Sunder Aggarwal is the man behind a culinary empire that best reflects the amalgamation of Indian traditions and modern technology. And all this would not have been possible without the talent and insight of Shyam Sunder Aggarwal, the Managing Director of Bikanervala Foods Pvt. Ltd. The company also owns a chain of restaurants and mega sweets stores in India.

Started a small shop by the name of Bikaner Bhujia Bhandar in Paranthe Wali Gali in Chandni Chowk in 1960, today BFPL since 1988, has made 4 modern manufacturing facilities spread over 3,00,000 sq ft and has to its credit a turnover of more than INR 1500 Crores.


CHANDUBHAI VIRANI

MENTOR CMD - BALAJI WAFERS

Chandubhai Virani was born on the 31st of January, 1957 to a farmer named Popatbhai Virani in a small village of 2000 residents named Dhun-Dhoraji in Jamnagar, Gujarat. Chandubhai Virani is considered to be a very down to earth person and prefers to lead a simple life with a low profile.

Balaji Group, better known as Balaji Wafers based in Rajkot, Gujarat, is one of the leading manufacturers and distributors of potato chips and other grain-based packaged snacks. From a small wafer business which started in a canteen of small theater with one tawa, to making INR 2.4 lakhs in the first year’s revenues and finally becoming an INR 5,000 crore company; Chandubhai’s Balaji has come a long way.




AJIT MOTA

MENTOR MD - MOTA CHIPS

An ardent food lover himself, Mota Chips is his dream of spreading this labour of love. His will to serve all food-loving people with exotic snacks laid the foundation of Mota Chips on the 5th of May, 1992. Mr. Ajit Mota had started his ambitious venture with a few working hands, in a small unit of 1,000 sq. ft. Today the facility spreads across an impressive 12,000 sq. ft. and caters to 1200-1400 retailers in Mumbai.

Mota Chips is one of the leading manufacturers of potato chips and other delicious savouries. A brainchild of food lover Mr. Ajit Mota, it has consistently maintained its purpose of serving exotic snacks and delicious treats. M.Mota isa very active snacks manufacturer from Maharashtra. He is also the President of Snacks Food Association of Maharashtra.




SRINIVAS RAJA

MENTOR MD - Adyar Ananda Bhavan

Srinivas is one of the two brothers who has carried forward the business from their father and running the chain of Adyar Ananda Bhavan, now operates with 125 branches spread all over India, majorly in South India Adyar Ananda Bhavan is managed & run by Thiru. K.T. Venkatesan & Thiru. K.T. Srinivasa Raja, sons of Founder, Late Thiru. K.S. Thirupathi Raja.

Adyar Ananda Bhavan, which came into existence mainly because their father K.S. Thirupathi Raja ran away from his family in Tamil Nadu to Mumbai and learnt to make sweets, clocked revenues of Rs. 420 crore last year and has employed 6,000 people. Adyar Ananda Bhavan now plans to take the chain global.