Dharampal Gulati

OWNER OF MDH MASALE

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Name- Pawan Sharma

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ASSIGNMENT ON MDH MASALE

OWNER MAHASHAY DHARMPAL GULATI
 Mahashay Dharampal Gulati
Born
27 March 1923 Sialkot,Punjab,
British India
Died
3 December 2020
(aged 97)
New Delhi, India
 Sialkot to Delhi
• Mahashay Dharmpal was born on 27th March, 1923 in Sialkot
(Pakistan). His father Mahashay Chunnilal and mother Mata
Chanan Devi were Philanthropic, religious minded and followers of
Arya Samaj.
• In The year 1933, he left school before he could have completed 5th
class. In 1937, he set up with the help of his father a small business
of looking mirrors and thereafter soap business and carpentry job,
cloth merchant, hardware business & rice trading.
 After the partition of the country, he came to India and reached Delhi on 27 th
September 1947. At that time he was having only Rs.1500/- with him. Out of this
amount he purchased a Tonga for Rs.650/- and drove it from New Delhi Railway
Station to Qutab Road and Karol Bagh to Bara Hindu Rao at two Annas sawari
for few days.
Somehow these petty businesses could not hold him for long and he again joined
hands with his father in his parental business i.e. Spices under the name of
Mahashian Di Hatti popularly known as ‘Deggi Mirch Wale‘ people.
• Thereafter he bought small wooden khokha (Shop/ Hatti) measuring 14ft. X 9 ft.
at Ajmal Khan Road, Karol Bagh, New Delhi and started his family business of
ground spices and again raised the banner of Mahashian Di Hatti of Sialkot
“DEGGI MIRCH WALE“.

MDH company also found its roots in Pakistan, where Mahashay's father opened a
small spice shop by the name of "Mahashiya di hatti" in 1919, which later became one
of the largest spice manufacturers in India valued at over Rs 15,000 crore.anner
 Dharmpal Gulati was once India’s highest-paid consumer
product CEO as the fifth grade school dropout took home
more than Rs 21 crore as salary in 2017. Gulati was actively
involved in the functioning of the company even in his 90s and
was known for making daily rounds to the factories, markets,
and the company. He held 80 per cent stake in MDH.
 Growth of MDH
• Hand- growth spices – automated machine’s
• First cardboard box packing in 1948- new innovation
• 30 tonnes of packaged spices a day- 10g to 500g
• Full automatic manufacturing plants at Delhi, gurgaon, Haryana,
Amritsar, Nagaur,Sharjah ( UAE)
• Ranked 490th among unlisted Indian companies 2000- 01
• Global Top 3rd Ranking in its Category
 About the owner
• Dadaji makes daily rounds of factories
Market and dealers
• His motivation to work is being sincere in
product quantity sold at affordable prices.
• He owns 80% Stoke in MDH
• He took more than 21 crore of salary in 2016-
17 higher than Adi Godrej and Vivek
Gambhir of Godrej consumer,Sanjiv
Mehta of Hindustan Unilever and ITC YC
Deveshwar
• 90% of his salary goes to charity
• Started with a small 10 beds eye hospital at Arya Samaj,
Subhash Nagar, New Delhi during November 1975, thereafter
in January 1984, a 20 beds hospital was established in
JanakPuri, New Delhi to perpetuate the memory of his
mother Mata Chanan Devi. With 300 beds in about 5 acres
land, this super specialty hospital with MRI, CT Scan, Heart
Wing, Neuro Sciences, IVF etc.
• Mahashay Dharmpal has also extended his blessing to the
children by developing a school to impart quality education
to the new generations. Today he is associated with
innumerous educational institutions particularly MDH
International School, Mahashay Chunnilal Saraswati Shishu
Mandir, Mata Leela Wati Kanya Vidhayala, Mahashay
Dharmpal Vidhya Mandir etc. Which hold a distinction that
upholds the philosophy of harmonious co-existence.
• From a child who dropped out of school
at an early age, Dharampal went on to
compete with and outmanoeuvre the
highly educated CEOs of many
consumer goods multinational
companies," Ahluwali writes. Gulati
passed away Thursday morning in a
Delhi hospital, leaving behind a
business empire worth over a
thousand crores

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