Haldiram owner house

Meet the most notorious member of the Haldiram Bhujiawala family

Notorious stories of bribes, blackmail and bullying abound in Hindi films and are often heard of in the form of gossip in business circles that most ordinary people are not privy to. One is always curious to read about businessmen, and the lengths they are willing to go to for their businesses. These leave us with a sense of amazement that they pulled it off, indignation that they managed to get away with it, and a mixture of disgust and admiration that they had the mettle to actually think of such deeds and implement them.

Prabhu Shankar Agarwal was one such businessman. Over the years, Prabhu Shankar had received a lot of bad press for myriad reasons. Where the press was concerned, he had more than earned his disrepute. The journey to Kolkata to meet Prabhu Shankar, Rameshwarlal’s eldest son was fraught with nerves and trepidation.

In Kolkata, he was notorious for his boisterous ways and for allegedly being unafraid of bending the law to achieve his goals.

The man seemed to have a lot of clout in the state

Haldiram & Bikaji: Story of the brothers who control half of India's namkeen market

After ethnic snack brand Bikaji was listed on the stock markets,CNBC-TV18learnt that the brothers of Bikaji’s promoter Shiv Ratan Agarwal are now charting IPO plans.


These brothers run India’s largest snack brand, Haldiram’s, and are merging their operations in Delhi and Nagpur to create an Indian ethnic snacks behemoth.

Nagpur-based Haldiram Foods International is run by the oldest brother Shiv Kishan Agarwal, while Delhi-based Haldiram Snacks is run by the youngest brothers Manohar and Madhusudan Agarwal.

But as you read this, some may wonder — there were two Haldirams? Bikaji and Haldiram’s are run by brothers? 

Bikaner, 1919

11-year-old Ganga Bishan Agarwal, nicknamed Haldiram, began to take interest in his father's Bhujiabusiness. Bikaner was no stranger to Bhujia— a snack made with chickpea flour or besan.

But Ganga Bishan, at a young age, decided to create his own version of the snack, a thinner bhujiamade from moth flour and not besan. The experiment from

Haldiram's

Vegetarian indian restaurant and foodstuff manufacturer

Trade name

Haldiram's
Company typePrivate
IndustryFood
Founded1937; 88 years ago (1937)
Bikaner, Rajasthan, India
FounderGanga Bhishen Agarwal
Headquarters

Noida, Uttar Pradesh

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India

ProductsSnacks, sweets, beverages, frozen foods, potato chips
Revenue₹9,215 crore (US$1.1 billion) (FY23)[1]
Website

Haldiram Snacks Food Pvt. Ltd. , doing business asHaldiram's is an Indian multinationalfast-food restaurantchain, founded in 1937, as a confectionery and desserts shop in Bikaner, Rajasthan, by Ganga Bhishen Agarwal. It is currently based in Noida.[2] Haldiram's is also a FMCG company as most of its restaurants have a integrated retail section, where packaged Indian Snacks and confectioneries are sold under its own brand.[3][4]

History

Haldiram's was established in 1937 as a retail sweets and namkeen shop in Bikaner, Rajasthan.[5] It was founded by Ganga Bhishen Agarwal, fon

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