A refugee who made the country’s meals tasty: the story behind MDH
If there’s a brand that has been adding flavour to a million lives in India, it is MDH. A household name in the country, MDH has a rags-to-riches story of a refugee-turned-entrepreneur. An acronym for Mahashian Di Hatti, which translates to ‘respected man’s shop’, MDH visualised and made the concept of ready-to-use spices a reality for consumers across the world.
The old man in the regal red turban in the MDH ads and on the spice packets is Mahashay Dharampal Gulati, the Founder of the spice brand. Although he’s in his nineties, he continues to be the brand ambassador of MDH Spices and makes it a point to appear in every TV ad. He’s a self-made billionaire who turned his roadside spice shop into one of the biggest Indian businesses in the world.
The humble beginning
Born and raised in Sialkot, now part of Pakistan, Gulati left school in while he was in the fifth standard. In , he helped his father set up a small business selling mirrors. After that, he tried his luck in other fields, starting a soap business, doing carpentry work and exploring the cloth, hardware and rice trading businesses. But these oc
Mahashay Dharampal Gulati (MDH Owner) Age, Death, Wife, Family, Biography & More
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Note: He was undergoing post-COVID treatment at Mata Chanan Devi Hospital in New Delhi.
BACKSTORY: From being a refugee to building India's most popular spices brand: Here's the story of MDH Masala
His rags-to-riches story is the stuff legends are made of. MDH — an acronym for ‘Mahashian Di Hatti, which means ‘respected man’s shop’ — made the concept of ready-to-use spices a reality for consumers across the world.
Mahashay Dharampal Gulati was born in in Sialkot, then India (now in Pakistan). However, the story begins in , when his father, Mahashay Chunni Lal Gulati, set up a shop to sell spices and called it ‘Mahashian Di Hatti’.
Dharampal was not very interested in studies and had dropped out of his school he was in class five. He started selling mirrors, soap, etc. and also tried his hand at carpentry. But none of these ventures took off. So, he had no option but to assist his father in selling spices. As th
From driving a tonga in New Delhi to building a Rs crore turnover spices brand
The life story of Mahashay Dharampal Gulati, the owner of the spices brand 'MDH' and India’s highest paid CEO in the FMCG space, with a salary of Rs 21 crore, who made a net profit of Rs crore in from total revenue of Rs crore, is truly inspirational.
Born in in undivided India in Sialkot, now in Pakistan, Mahashay ji, also popularly known as 'Dadaji', died in December last year after building a huge business conglomerate from a humble beginning.
| Mahashay Dharampal Gulati came to came to Delhi) with Rs 1, in (Photo Courtesy: MDH website) |
Being a school dropout, he soon joined his father's spices business at a very young age.
The flourishing family business suffered after participation and Mahashayji had to move to India and live in refugee camp in Amritsar.
According to the company’s website, he stopped his studies before completing class 5 and in “set up with the help of his father a small business of looking mirrors and thereafter soap business and carpentry job, cloth material, hardware business and rice trading.”
Later, he joined hands with his father’s spices busin
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