When MaligramAgarwal started his business, his objective was to establish an international standard trading house. Thus, MS Group came into existence in 1970 and Maliram was its…

In 1972, Indra Bhakta Shrestha started importing fabrics and other consumer products from Japan and Korea. In the same year, he started Nepal Enterprises (NE) with the help of his son Ravi Bhakta Shrestha to give momentum to his trading activities.…

The father-son duo of Jagadish Prasad Agrawal and Ananda Bagaria started their business journey with Global Writing, a manufacturing company that produced ball-pens in the late…

Pioneering the manufacturing of construction materials, Panchakanya Group is considered as a force to be reckoned with in the Nepali industrial fraternity. The group is the result of a vision and the ambition of its founder Prem Bahadur Shrestha and the hard work of his…

Prabhu’s emergence as a leading business sector has been recent. But its growth has been quite swift. Prabhu Group has a strong presence in the financial sector with a first class commercial bank to its name along with a life and a general insurance company and a money transfer and a payment…

In the 1950s, Ram Bhakta Saakha, the father of Ganesh Bhakta Saakha, was a Bhaktapur-based trader who traded in clothing, edible oils, coconuts and thread. After one hundred years in trade and business, Saakha Group can be considered as one of the oldest business houses of…

Sanima Group comprises companies which are operational in Nepal and other countries of the world. These companies are run by prominent non-resident Nepalis (NRNs) residing in different parts of the globe. Arun Kumar Ojha, Tek Raj Niraula and Jiba Lamichhane are the key NRNs who are heading different companies under the umbrella of Sanima…

After testing his efforts in trading, Rawat Mal Golyan established a button factory called the Sau Udyog in Nepal in 1960. Although it didn’t prove successful, it was a first step towards the making of a business group that would own multiple industries…

More than six decades ago, Duli Chandra Sharda set up a rice mill in Lahan namely Pashupati Rice Mill. It was this rice mill that built a base for the establishment of Sharda Group. Prior to that, Duli Chandra Sharda and his father were Lahan-based small traders who traded in rice, jute, mustard seeds etc.…

Prabhakar SJB Rana, the Chairman Emeritus of Soaltee Crowne Plaza, has been engaged in a number of sectors particularly hospitality, trade, automobiles and hydropower.…

Triveni Group started its journey with trading activities in 1920. The group considers trading as its spine which contributed to its growth in many sectors. Triveni Byapar is the trading wing of the Triveni Group handling international FMCG, consumer durables and electronic brands such as Panasonic, Motorola, Fuji Film, Samsung, Yasuda, Sansui, Symphony, Crompton, Opple and Roland and boasts of a large distribution network. Earlier, Triveni Byapar imported products such as Konica reels, TDK Cassettes, Panasonic cameras, video cameras and other similar products, which with time became obsolete.…

Late Noor Pratap Rana, the founder of Universal Group, is considered a pioneer in the Nepali footwear industry. Noor stepped into the footwear industry in the 1970s. In the early 80s, the group established a factory in Hetauda and started producing ‘Hathi’ brand…

It was during the 1940s that the seeds of Vishal Group, a business group owned by an Agrawal family, were sown with the establishment of a fabric shop in Dharan. The Agrawal family was led by Gordhandas Agrawal who traded cloths in Dharan, after having moved from Ilam.…

After completing his master’s degree in economics from Calcutta University in India, Vijaya Gajananda Vaidya returned to Nepal where he worked as a gazetted officer for the then Ministry of Foreign Affairs for two years and then switched to United States Agency for International Development (USAID)…