From selling snacks on the street to building a multi-billion-dollar empire
Mega-Thread on the story of Haldiram's
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1) Ganga Bhisen Agarwal, affectionately known as Haldiram by her mother, started The Haldiram Empire in 1937 before India gained independence.
2) He was born into a Malwadi family in Bikaner and married Champa Devi.
3) He started out selling Bhujia, as per his aunt's recipe in his father's namkeen and snacks shop.
4) However, he and his wife later fled home owing to a family quarrel.
5) Later he started by selling on the street mong daal namkeen prepared by his wife.
6) Haldiram opened his first business in Bikaner in 1946. He began selling his Bikaneri Bhujia there.
7) He recreated the Bhujia by including moth flour and made it thinner. His sales and income improved dramatically because of all of these adjustments.
8) Later on, Haldiram attended a wedding in Kolkata, and only he got the idea to set up his shop there.
9) With this step, the first branching out of the Bikaner Bhujia business was started.