Bhavnagari Foods Pvt Ltd

Bhavnagari Dry Fruit Stores (Wanowari) In the year 1901, a chance day trip to Pune changed the life of Virjibhai Karsandas Parekh forever. In the business of making and selling chivda and other salted snacks in Mumbai, he was smitten by Pune city.  While his group of five friends returned to Mumbai at the end of the day, he stayed on at the shelter offered by the Jain temple in Pune’s Cantonment area. Little did he know then that the seed of a business idea, in the form of the Bhavnagari `mithai’ shop that he would set up, right next to the temple in the same year, would last for more than a century, with the name changing from Bhavnagari Fancy Sweet Emporium to Bhavnagari Dry Fruit Stores somewhere along the journey. Over time,...