Atmanirbhar since 90’s: 6 Indian brands than have an inspiring story to tell

Starting a business can be an incredibly exciting and rewarding venture, but it isn’t easy. Many small businesses don’t make it past their first few years, so to increase your chances of success you have to be strategic from the very beginning. As an emerging entrepreneur, you probably feel more motivated and committed than ever. It’s important to direct your energy and resources toward the right practices, though. Without a clear, actionable plan for growth, your small business could struggle to take off.  It’s not uncommon to hear about entrepreneurs who used the wealth they made from a previous endeavor to build a thriving new startup, or about seasoned business owners who took over a decades-old franchise and transformed it into something new.

Listed down below success stories of 6 decade old companies that every emerging entrepreneur should know:

Centuary Mattress

With a legacy spanning over 3 decades, Centuary Mattress, popularly known as India’s Sleep Specialist, is India’s fastest growing mattress brand and the veritable pioneers of the “comfort” industry. The Malani family held many groundbreaking transformations even before they ventured into the mattress industry. The current generation is headed by Mr. Purshottam Malani, followed by Mr. Siddharth Malani and Mr. Uttam Malani.  Launched in 1992, under their strong leadership, Centuary mattress has scaled the heights adding many accolades along the way. Centuary Mattresses is the first Indian mattress manufacturer to hold the ISO 9001-2015 certification for its quality management system along with BIS certification for its product. It was also recently awarded Oeko-Tex Class 1 certification. With innovation as one of its core values, the brand introduced Green Gel technology for the first time in India, which helps regulate the microclimate of the mattress; thereby making it more comfortable and hygienic for the user. Centuary roped in Sania Mirza as its Brand Ambassador and launched a new range of products called ‘Signature Collection’; which are inspired by Sania Mirza.

Cello Group

Begin with a tiny factory as plastic PVC footwear and bangles manufacturer in Mumbai in 1967, Cello group has emerged as one of the most diversified household brands in the country. The Mumbai-based company has a presence across multiple segments ranging from plastic & steel ware, Opalware& glassware, melamine ware to moulded furniture, home appliances, air-coolers, writing instruments, paper & stationery products, and cleaning products. It is one of the leading exporters of household products, and supplies to the biggest retail stores globally. The 60-year-old brand exports to pan India having a 50k retail network. It has successfully reached the biggest market of middle east countries.Cello Group roped in Amitabh Bachchan as its Brand Ambassador last year in October.

Orpat Group

Popularly known for their affordable and reliable consumer durable products Orpat Group is a 50 year old brand. Today Orpat Group is India’s largest hand blender, room heater, and calculator manufacturer. The company sells diverse products such as—home appliances, Hand Blender, Iron, Room Heater, Sandwich Toaster, Mixer Grinder, Fans, calculators, wall clocks, Telephone, Educational Toys, etc. The company envisages to become the largest manufacturers of the consumer durables by implementing their simple business model of supplying Indian products globally, delivering good quality and international design at affordable prices, and most importantly customer’s satisfaction.

Tradeindia

Tradeindia is India’s largest online B2B marketplace, connecting buyers and suppliers. Tradeindia has started its inception 1996. Today company provides a single platform to all the businesses (including SME’s & MSME’s) for the online promotion of their products and services. Their mission is to help SMEs go Digital. Now more than ever, company is committed to provide SMEs with the resources they need to take their businesses online. As the shift from offline to online accelerates, during these times companies are being asked to do more with less. Tradeindia client Relations team helps SMEs with tools to digitize their business operations and make your business future-ready. Tradeindia delivers comprehensive business solutions to the domestic and Global Business Community through a wide array of online services, facilitation of trade promotional events. It is assisting manufacturers, suppliers, wholesalers, exporters and other businesses in growing their business with us. With every passing year, the company is growing on a titanic scale, under the vision and guidance of Mr. Bikky Khosla, CEO.

Royale Touche

Royale Touche began its journey in 1978 with the first laminate factory at Surendranagar. Royale Touche is a premium laminate brand in India that offers an exclusive range of luxury laminates. The company offers the widest range of categories and is known for its quality line of products. The company’s core objective relies on reinventing designs and the environment for different kinds of places. Royale Touche has become a global brand with a pan India presence and regulates in export markets to over 60 countries such as Europe, US, Africa, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, Indonesia, Singapore, and Australia to name a few.

Kemwell Biopharma

Founded by SubhashBagaria in 1980, Kemwell Biopharma started its journey as a small-molecule business catering to global pharma majors and later turned into a full-time biologics CDMO in 2012. Today, it is one of the leading biologics CDMOs in Asia, providing end-to-end integrated development and manufacturing solutions compliant with US FDA and EU regulations. In fact, it is the only pureplay Biologics CDMO in India with both Drug Substance (DS) and Drug Product (DP) development and manufacturing capabilities, dedicatedly focused on client projects and thus ensuring zero business conflicts among stakeholders.

Headquartered in Bangalore, Kemwell facilities comprise a cGMP drug substance manufacturing suite with over 45ooL bioreactor capacity, a sterile fill and finish suite for cGMP drug product manufacturing and process development labs. Built in association with a German Biotech Major, the company’s infrastructure is designed to support the production of protein therapeutics using mammalian expression systems such as monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), bi-specifics, and fusion proteins, among others.