The little-known oil king of Bareilly built an FMCG brand with sales of Rs 2,500 crore from Rs 10 lakh.

Ghanshyam Khandelwal, which was a veritable small town in the 1980s, started in 1985 at the age of 29 with his brother as a Rs 10 lakh joint venture. The company sold packaged mustard oil under the Bail Kolhu brand.


It takes a visionary and a sharp, shrewd business mind to make a Rs 2,500-crore turnover FMCG complete from an area like Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh, which was accustomed to being a true village back in the 1980s. At 29, Ghanshyam Khandelwal started the business as a partnership firm in conjunction with his brother in 1985 with Rs ten Lakh.

The corporate sold-out prepackaged mustard oil beneath the name of Bail Kolhu. The corporate has opened around twelve Nourish Exclusive complete shops to date and going to open additional this year. Ghanshyam, a science graduate, hails from a family that has been in the mustard industry since war II. “My granddaddy started the business that was continued by my father and his brother when he,” says Ghanshyam, 64, Chairman and director of BL Argo Limited.

I used to be not smart at studies, however, passed category 10 and sophistication 12 with a primary division,” says Ghanshyam. Presently after, he had to take care of Lalita Prasad Kishanlal Chemist Shop, which was another close corporation started by his father and his uncle. Tho' the business was aligned together with his educational background in science, he was additional curious about the family’s mustard industry.

He has known the main problems moving quality of the oil and located that the standard depended upon the composition of gums (phospholipids) in mustard seeds, then he launched cold ironed oil once he started his own company in 1986. His father’s brother took over the closed corporation in 1985 and gave him Rs ten lakh as his share. “I launched Bail Kolhu in 1986 with that money,” says Ghanshyam, who started the business together with his younger sibling, Dileep. In 1998, the company long-faced a crisis once the govt prohibited mustard oil when rumors unfold that the merchandise was inflicting edema on people.

The company, he says, has been victimization the gas action process to visualize the purity of oil since 1991 which the govt created it necessary solely this year. He conjointly claims that BL Argo was the primary to introduce bottled mustard oil in Uttar Pradesh. “In 2002, the government prohibited the sale of loose oil, tho' it came into impact only in 2009.


Throughout one every one of his visits to Europe, Ghanshyam says he had seen some sorts of mixed oil that were being sold out as blended oil, tho' an equivalent was thought of as adulteration in India. We have a tendency to win the case and our company became the primary one to induce the license for blended oil in India,” shares Ghanshyam, who has been a pioneer in introducing new technology during this ancient business.

In 2006, they discovered their 1st industrial plant with a packaging capability of fifty tons per day at Parsa Khera. In 2011 another work was set up in Joharpur Industrial Area with a packaging capacity of 250 tons of oil per day. The corporate established a totally automatic plant in 2015, that increased the whole processing capacity to 600 tons per day and therefore the packaging capacity to 1100 tons per day. Their son Ashish Khandelwal, 43, is an administrator within the company, and girl Richa Khandelwal, 40, is the complete Spokesperson.

“We affected from semi-automatic to a totally machine-driven packaging plant, that is presumably the most effective in the country in our industry,” he says. “During my growing up years, I had seen however my father engineered the business from scratch and took it to nice heights.

We have a tendency to be upbeat concerning developing the e-commerce channel for our business,” she says, confidently.


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