How Atul Garg built Rs 100 cr stationary brand Oddy with Rs 5 lacs from his basement
Atul Garg launched a stationery brand with Rs 5 lakh from his home basement. The business called, Oddy, clocked a turnover of Rs 100 crore in 2020. After seeing his father's stationery business expand, Atul Garg chose to forego his post-graduation education and joined the family business after finishing his first year M Com examinations. He was 20 years old at the time, and the year was 1998. After assisting his father at the store for a few years, he was well-versed in the trade. Shri Niwas Garg's father ran a stationery business in Chawri Bazar, Delhi, called Nai Sarak. "Alankar Stationery Mart was founded by my father in 1978 with a capital of Rs 25,000. It was a 50-square-foot store at the time, and he supplied stationery to government agencies,", according to Atul, he has now evolved the company into the Oddy stationery brand. In 1998, Oddy was founded with Rs 5 lakh and five staff in the basement of Atul's Delhi home. The company has g...