Business

In the 1920s, Phirojshaw Khambatta established a business-to-business operation centred on the production of carbonated drinks. In the 1950s, it began selling flavour concentrates…

In 1920, Maiya brothers from Kota, a small village near Udupi in South Canara, moved to Bengaluru to find work. They had been cooking in the homes of the well-to-do before being p…

Jagdish Chandra Mahindra anticipated opportunities for Indian businesspeople as India prepared to gain its freedom. With his brother Kailash Chandra Mahindra and Ghulam Mohammed, …

A.M. Murugappa Chettiar, at 14 years old, became an apprentice at his uncle's moneylending company in Burma (now Myanmar) in 1900, He belonged to the Tamil Chettiars, who had long…

George Townsend established a sewing needle manufacturing company in the English town of Redditch in 1851. After this, in 1882, his son started making bicycle components, includin…

When Satpal Malhotra was a boy living in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, he lost his father and mother within a few years of each other, at the ages of 15 and 19, respectively. He was left …

Customers may credit Ujala's inventor, Moothedath Panjan Ramachandran, whose insistence on wearing spotless white garments every day is reported to have inspired the product's cre…

On November 20, 1851, in Verolanuova, Italy, an Italian entrepreneur, inventor, and scientist named Signor Felice Bisleri established the Bisleri company. To begin with, Felice Bi…

Ramesh Chauhan of Parle contacted his friends at Duke's with the idea for a 'veri veri lime & lemoni' drink. He had asked for the recipe for their lemon drink, pledging not to…

Chaleo Yoovidhya, a Thai entrepreneur from humble beginnings (son of poor Chinese immigrants), started TC Pharmaceuticals, which produced antibiotics in the 1960s. In 1970…

John Jacob Bausch, a German immigrant, and Henry Lomb, an American investor, established Bausch & Lomb in New York in 1863. By the time World War One broke out, Bausch & L…

An agriculturist named Chinni Krishnan also worked in the pharmaceutical industry. Poor kids wandering the streets with uncombed hair used to bother him. He envisioned a future wh…

The HUL brand Surf dominated the Indian market in the 1960s. While hundreds of disorganised players serviced the mass and mid-range markets, Surf specialised exclusively to the af…

With tens of thousands of businesses in every possible field, the online market has never been more crowded. Despite the upsides, however, it's more complicated than ever to set y…