03/12/2020
Mahashay Dharampal Gulati(1923-2020). He suffered cardiac arrest on Thursday morning and took his last breathe on 3rd December,2020.
Fondly called Dadaji, Mirzapur ke Chacha,Mahashayji and also the king of spices. He was an Indian buisnessman and the owner and CEO of MDH(Mahshian Di Hatti Private Limited) an Indian spice company.
Gulati was India's highest-paid consumer products CEO for the year 2017. The company was started by the late Gulati's father Chuni Lal as a small shop in Sialkot, Pakistan back in 1919. After the partition of the country, Gulati moved to a shop in Karol Bagh in Delhi and opened 15 factories supplying 1000 dealers in India. It is now a sprawling Rs 1500 crore business empire which runs the masala company, a number of schools and a hospital.
MDH has a number of overseas offices including in Dubai and London. The company exports its products to over 100 countries. Gulati's son manages the overall operations now and six daughters handle distribution region wise.MDH has more than 60 products and gets a majority of its sales from three variants - Deggi Mirch, Chat Masala and Chana Masala.
Source- Wikipedia, the economic times
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