Meet Paras Kumar who joined Hathi Brand at the age of 18, grew it into Rs 170 cr turnover business
Paras Kumar joined his family business when he was a teenager. He built Hathi Brand into a Rs 170 crore turnover business. It takes a lot of passion and effort to expand on your parents' foundation in a family business . When he took over the reins of Delhi-based Hathi Brand, the family-owned manufacturer of chana dal and atta (flour), at the age of 18, Paras Kumar did it extraordinarily well. At the time, he was doing his B.Com through Open School at Delhi University. "I entered the firm with an expansion mindset and invested roughly Rs 20 crore to set up a semi-automatic maida factory," says Paras, detailing how he grew the company from Rs 50 crore in revenue in 2009 to Rs 170 crore in FY 2020-21. The company has 150 employees at present. "The facility began operations in 2010, and we quickly began producing and selling maida, sooji, dalia, besan, and poha." When he started in 2009, the company only sold channa dal and atta. Hathi Brand...