JAN 2022 , `150 VOLUME - X, ISSUE - I COVER STORY: THE NEXT NORMAL 4th Annual MSME Awards Coverage SEBA 2021 Ajay Thakur Head SME, BSE SME
EDITOR’S NOTE www.smallenterpriseindia.com EDITORIAL TEAM Dear Readers, Dojo Jose : Editor-in-Chief This month, we shall see how 2022 will be one of the most [email protected] significant years for business transitions. This issue will cover the N Mahesh : Associate Editor latest trends, challenges, and upcoming business trends. For the Dhanya Menon : Features Editor first time in history, the way of business will change completely; Vaibhav A : Copy Editor people will focus more on technological advancement and Sandeep Kumar : Sub Editor/ Deputy Editor innovation. Babu S : Senior Correspondent We will see how the businesses can grow and emerge stronger MANAGEMENT from the pandemic. This month’s issue focuses on the “Next Tapasya Ravishankar - General Manager Normal” and see how they will tackle the challenges, and shape Dojo Jose : Publisher & CEO our future. Dr.K.J. John : Managing Director Since the emergence of the pandemic Covid-19, businesses have SALES & MARKETING been struggling, entrepreneurs working hard, and scrambling to Sonali work effectively and adapt to the circumstantial changes. Manager - Partnerships & Alliances There have been several business transitions in 2021. However, ADMIN 2022 will see beyond that. Rather than just grinding through the Sudha - Assistant Manager - Admin & HR current situations, businesses should focus on evolving and FINANCE finding new ways of an effective business. The next normal won’t Balraj M.S : Finance Manager be all struggle and grinding! It will be coming as fresh as new. It IT DEPT will change the way businesses work. We will look forward to Raheel Mohammed - Manager - IT changing and shaping our future in a better way and tackling the Design grieving catastrophes. Parithimal E: Senior Designer You will read on the latest trends that can shape the next normal CONTRIBUTORS and how it plays a role in changing the Indian Economy that will Archana : Mumbai eventually make businesses and entrepreneurs adapt to the next Harpreet Kaur : Mumbai normal in 2022. Mamta Sharma : Ahmedabad Small Enterprise Business Awards 2021, one of the leading awards Gagneet Singh : Mohali platforms that recognises successful MSMEs, has announced the Itishree S : Hyderabad winners during its 4th annual virtual event conducted on 25 Jill Shah L: Ahemedabad November’21. The winner’s list is published in this issue. A big Nidhi Arora : New Delhi thank you to all participants, Jury panel, Validation and Nidhi Vats : Gurgoan empowerment Partner – Wadhwani Foundation and the Priya Ravindran : Bangalore Ecosystem Partners. R.Sundararajan : Coimbatore Also, get an updated trend on technology, HR, logistics and Rajesh Kumar : Kolkatta success stories. Rekshma A : Chennai Smitha Venkiteswaran : Goa Happy Reading! Viraj Desai : Delhi Abha Chopra : Delhi Dojo Jose Shalini Jyothi : New Delhi Priyanka Bhowmick : Guwahati Editor In Chief COLUMNISTS Smitha Hari : Mumbai Akshatha Sajumon : Bengaluru Rashida Khilawala : Ahemedabad Chackochen Mathai : Chennai MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS To subscribe to Small Enterprise magazine, please email us at [email protected] OR call +91 80 41155725 HOW TO CONTACT US: Aspire Media Pvt Ltd., 2nd Floor, Vinir Tower, No 6, BTM Layout, 100ft Main Road, Bangalore - 560 068, India. Tel: +91 80 41155725 Fax: +91 80 41128897 Email: [email protected] Web: www.smallenterpriseindia.com Disclaimer: This publication may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form in whole or in part without the written permission of the publishers. The Publishers regret that they cannot accept liability for errors or omissions contained in this issue. The opinions and views expressed within this publication are not necessarily those of the publishers or the editor. The editorial items appearing in this publication are the copyright property of Aspire Media Pvt Ltd. All rights reserved.
V O L U M E - X , I S S U E - I J A N U A R Y 2 0 2 2 | `150/- 06 10 NEWS AWARDS 06 LAUNCHES STATE-OF-THE-ART AI/ML-POWERED 10 SMALL ENTERPRISE BUSINESS AWARDS 2021 SOLUTIONS FOR MANUFACTURING SECTOR 14 SEBA JURY PANEL 15 SEBA WINNERS - PART 1 OF 3 08 JAPANESE PLANT-BASED COMPANY NEXT MEATS 18 SEBA WINNERS - PART 2 OF 3 FORAYS IN INDIAN MARKET; LAUNCHES 23 SEBA WINNERS - PART 3 OF 3 MEAT-FREE ALTERNATIVES FOR CONSUMERS
27 INTERVIEW 59 COVER STORY 27 ENVISYS TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD BANGALORE 59 HOW DO WE PREPARE FOR THE NEXT NORMAL? 32 HEALTHY MASTER PVT LDT 35 LK AUTOMOTIVE INTERVIEW 62 EMERGING STRONGER FROM THE PANDEMIC, DOING 39 BASELINE PROJECT MANAGEMENT SERVICES LLP. BUSINESS IN FUTURE AND THE OPPORTUNITY 43 PARVATI TECHNOCAST (GUJARAT) PRIVATE LIMITED 65 BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION FOR 2022 47 SUCCESS STORY 69 INDIAN ECONOMY OUTLOOK IN 2022 47 STEM CONSULTANCY 49 PARVATI TECHNOCAST (GUJARAT) PRIVATE LIMITED 71 SMALL BUSINESS STRATEGIES THAT NEED TO EVOLVE 51 L.K AUTOMOTIVE PVT LTD IN 2022 55 MSME TRANSFORMATION AND STARTUP HANDHOLDING 73 E-COMMERCE TRENDS IN 2022 STRATEGICALLY FOR YOUR BUSINESS TO MAKE IT ON AUTO-PILOT MODE 76 TRENDS IN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT AND LOGISTICS FOR 2022 79 CONTACTLESS SHOPPING TRENDS TO LOOK FORWARD IN 2022 83 HYBRID WORKING IN 2022: PLANNING A HEALTHY WAY OF WORK-LIFE BALANCE 85 WORKPLACES POISED FOR POSITIVE MAKEOVER IN 2022 88 RECRUITMENT AND HIRING TRENDS TO ADOPT IN 2022 90 KEY TRENDS THAT WILL AFFECT EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE IN 2022
NEWS LAUNCHES STATE-OF-THE-ART AI/ML-POWERED SOLUTIONS FOR MANUFACTURING SECTOR Lincode, a leading AI visual inspection company, has or a solution that they know will bring them high ROI. closed its another round of funding. Founded by For instance, our AI-backed visual inspection solution Rajesh Iyengar, Founder and CEO, and Ritika has made the inspection of the production lines Nigam, Co-founder and CTO, Lincode enables much more efficient than the traditional vision manufacturers to identify surface defects, identify systems. The manufacturers have seen a drastic and measure individual components, and generate difference with our solution.” real-time data about products on the production line through its flagship industry 4.0 solution, the Lincode Ritika Nigam added, “The manufacturers see that Visual Inspection System (LIVIS). microscopic surface defects were detected with the highest precision and accuracy within the established Speaking of the investments, Rajesh Iyengar said: cycle times and now we have seen an ever-growing “The automotive industry has shown an impressive demand amongst the automotive manufacturers. I adoption of manufacturing technologies. The certainly believe the industry is now more than ready manufacturers are not hesitant to deploy technology to invest in manufacturing technologies. The future 06 \\ Small Enterprise \\ Jan 2022
of smart automotive manufacturing is very calls, high compatibility and IP) along with Rajesh and promising.” Ritika's execution capabilities, makes us believe they are disruptors poised for large scale success.” Shekhar Kirani from Accel showed his optimism in the offerings of Lincode, saying, “We are excited Yashwanth Hemraj, Founding Partner of Arka about how Lincode is taking industry 4.0 to the next Venture Labs concluded saying, “Our investment in level, leveraging AI/ML to revolutionize precision Lincode aligns with our vision of backing manufacturing. Quality inspection is a critical game-changing cross-border vertical solutions that challenge faced by manufacturers across the are built with three main components - AI, workflow industries and Lincode has an amazing IP/Tech to automation and datasets. Lincode stands out among address in multiple categories and markets. They are competitors, in its ability to execute and grow rapidly. seeing great early success with their products across We are very excited to back Rajesh and Ritika as the globe.” Lincode embarks on becoming the go-to Visual Inspection solution in the factory floors for the Seconding him is K C Chea of Tech Coast Angels, largest OEMs and their supplier ecosystem.” San Diego: “The Lincode computer vision technology is very promising for the automotive industry and The automotive industry is witnessing a bullish trend manufacturing in general. The solution will deliver and has been adopting smart manufacturing to a higher quality products at a lower cost. We invested great extent. The industry is making large in Lincode because we believe Lincode is the future investments in smart technologies such as AI, IoT, as customers demand zero defects.” Automation, Big data, 5G, etc. to streamline and scale up the automotive manufacturing process for higher Hus TIgli of Tech Coast Angels added, “Lincode has efficiency and production capacity. demonstrated that its technology has achieved impressive results in defect detection vs. traditional By the end of 2022, automotive manufacturers expect machine vision technologies. We believe that these that some 24% of their plants will be smart factories, phenomenal AI-enabled results and the quick set-up and 49% of automakers have already invested more times achieved are real differentiators for Lincode.” than $250 million in smart factories. However, only a few automotive manufacturers have translated this “We believe in backing entrepreneurs who are enthusiasm into real progress – some 42% of smart looking to transform industries and even creating factory initiatives are struggling and the digital new ones leveraging technologies like AI. We see a maturity of their manufacturing operations is below lot of synergy between our vision and what Lincode is par. trying to achieve.” says Robbie Dutta of Nurture Ventures. The automotive sector has seen growth in its sales and increased adoption of critical manufacturing Raj Snehil Juneja, Managing Partner of Disruptors technologies, which is an important driving factor. Capital said, “We are glad to partner with Lincode as This has led to the delivering of best-in-class quality seed investors. Lincode is uniquely spearheading of products that are available to the market in industrial transformation globally. Their strong keeping with the demand due to better production competitive edge (reflected in extremely low false capacity. Jan 2022 \\ Small Enterprise \\ 07
NEWS JAPANESE PLANT-BASED COMPANY NEXT MEATS FORAYS IN INDIAN MARKET; LAUNCHES MEAT-FREE ALTERNATIVES FOR CONSUMERS Tokyo-based Company Next Meats has teamed up Classic Chicken, Next Chicken Biryani, Next Butter with Indian food-tech startup Vegan Meat India Chicken Curry, Next Yakiniku Japanese Taste, Next Private Limited to launch meat-free alternatives with Spicy Yakiniku and Next Burger Patty for their Indian the motive to prioritize sustainability in food consumers. production and pare down the incremental burden on the environment using crossover technology. They Next Meats, which is making its debut in Indian are also attempting to reduce the acute problem market with Vegan Meat India Private Limited is posed by NCDs and carbon footprint in the country planning to expand its product assortment by by introducing plant-based food items. introducing plant-based cakes, vegan cheese, tuna, egg and soya milk especially for their consumers in The company, which is listed in the American Stock India, will have their online retail presence in five market, aims to provide a series of delicious servings cities including Delhi/NCR, Bangalore, Hyderabad, of Next Tandoori Chicken, Next Herb Chicken, Next Pune and Mumbai. 08 \\ Small Enterprise \\ Jan 2022
“As our modern lives have become more convenient, “Considering all the aspects from human health and it has taken an inconvenient toll on our environment, we would expect the trend of meatless environment. Thinking things through from the meats would be more popular in India as well as in perspective of our planet’s well-being, led to our all over the World. Diverse plant-based meat types discovery of plant-based meats. Now we know we such as plant-based chicken and seafood continue to can’t shift our global eating culture of meat-based grow in popularity, which is contributing to the diets overnight. But if we focus on delivering the growth of the market,” Mr Yadav added. best tasting plant-based products, we believe it will lead us to a future where people will make a choice The brand is also planning to launch their that is better for them and our planet. As India is the brick-and-mortar store in India in the next fiscal. biggest consumer market in the world. Our products are high in protein, low in saturated fats with no Next Meats was officially launched in June of 2020 added flavors and cholesterol. These items are just after its journey of product development began three apt for people suffering from diabetes and blood years ago. They have their presence in Hong Kong, pressure. We are excited to cater our Indian Taiwan, Vietnam and Singapore. Besides India, the consumers,” said Mr Ryo Shirai, Founder of Next company plans to launch in Italy, France, Russia, Meats. Spain, China and USA. To attest to this, several researchers claim that Website: http://nextmeat.in/ people, who follow a plant-based diet, tend to have a Instagram: lower body mass index and lower rates of obesity, https://www.instagram.com/nextmeats_india/?hl=en diabetes, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, inflammation Facebook: and cancer due to the higher antioxidant, probiotic https://www.facebook.com/NextMeatsIndia and fiber content. “One of the most powerful steps one can take to improve health, boost energy levels, and prevent chronic diseases is moving to a plant-based diet. If you’ve read our ancient vedas, it constantly talks about nutrition, which is a powerful way to live longer and help the environment, and reduce our risk of getting sick. Therefore, a diet plays a crucial role in maintaining your overall wellbeing especially when we are fighting with COVID-19 pandemic,” said Mr Deepak Yadav, CEO, Vegan Meat India Private Limited. These plant-based meats are meticulously produced using Non-GMO soy, pea proteins and other plant extracts in factories that meet HACCP and ISO standards. In the future, they are also planning to open a lab and manufacturing unit in India and develop the products with Indian taste. Jan 2022 \\ Small Enterprise \\ 09
SMALL ENTERPRISE BUSINESS AWARDS 2021 Aspire Media has completed the 4th annual MSME awards on 25 November 2021 (Small Enterprise Business Awards 2021 (SEBA) to recognize successful MSMEs in India. The award ceremony was a virtual celebration of entrepreneurial excellence and a display of perseverance by overcoming the extraordinary challenges in the tough pandemic period. This Year, Wadhwani Foundation associated with ‘Growth’ and ‘Efficiency’. The objective is to make Aspire Media as a Knowledge & Empowerment these SMEs competitively positioned in their Partner. The registered nominees will be provided industry and become challengers or leaders in their with the benefits of the Wadhwani Advantage respective segments. program. The aim of the Wadhwani Foundation is to upskill SMEs by conducting personalized training On partnering with the Wadhwani Foundation, Dojo and intervention and build capabilities, focused on Jose, Founder & CEO, Aspire Media Pvt Ltd said, 10 \\ Small Enterprise \\ Jan 2022
“We at Aspire Media are thrilled to partner with educate and motivate them. Empowering Wadhwani Foundation to offer an exclusive program entrepreneurs and training them to make sound curated by Wadhwani Foundation for all Nominees decisions with tools, content and connects on the and Winners at the Small Enterprise Business Wadhwani Advantage technology platform, “Genie” Awards 2021. The offer contains huge knowledge will open up a strong support ecosystem for the resources like education Videos, articles and SME entrepreneurs. consultancy. There is a reason to cheer up for those Nominees who didn’t make it to the Finalist as they Samir Sathe, Executive VP, Wadhwani Advantage at have access to empowerment training and Wadhwani Foundation and SEBA’21 Jury Head and certificate, and handholding support of using a Validation Partner said: “Being the knowledge and ‘Discovery Tool’. validation partner has been an intense and mutually beneficial exercise and I am certain that our SEBA’21 Runners-up and Winners get the best of partnership with Aspire Media will yield substantial this program. They get access to the following benefits to the MSME community in India and solutions tools - Key Account Management, New globally.” Growth Opportunity. Revenue Forecasting, Inventory Management and Customer Analysis Management The Wadhwani Advantage program provides growth Tool. And the Jury Awards Winners get the most strategy and long-term support to MSMEs to help benefits of the program.” them grow by 2X-10X by identifying and solving their business challenges. The endeavour is to bring To fully leverage this partnership for the benefit of data-driven problem-solving habits to the MSME the nominees, the Wadhwani Advantage team will sector and empower them with all-around undertake deep interventions to help MSMEs capabilities for sustainable growth. In India, and towards discoveries and business transformations, globally. Wadhwani Advantage has helped ~1000 supported by a series of Webinars, Panel SMEs and influenced the creation of 15,000 new Discussions, Articles and Podcasts all aimed to jobs in the last 2 years. SMALL ENTERPRISE BUSINESS AWARDS 2021 WINNERS LIST COMPANY CATEGORY SEGMENT AWARD PAGARIYA FOOD Export / Import Small WINNER PRODUCTS PVT LTD Innovative Business Small WINNER Global Presence Small WINNER VASHINI EXPORTS Food & Beverage Small WINNER Retail / FMCG Small WINNER Export / Import Micro WINNER Global Presence Micro WINNER Food & Beverage Micro WINNER Sustainable Business Micro Runners Up Agriculture Micro WINNER Rural Micro WINNER Jan 2022 \\ Small Enterprise \\ 11
FOCUS EDUMATICS Service Micro WINNER PVT LTD Technology Micro Runners Up Innovative Business Micro WINNER SHASHILA HEALTHY Education Micro Runners Up MASTER PVT LTD Manufacturing Micro Runners-up LK AUTOMOTIVE Food & Beverage Micro Runners-up PVT LTD Retail / FMCG Micro WINNER E-commerce Micro WINNER TESTPAN INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED Manufacturing Micro Runners Up Technology Micro Runners Up MANISHANKAR OILS Global Presence Micro Runners Up PVT LTD MEGAA MODAA Education Micro WINNER PVT LTD Edu-Tech Micro WINNER SCRIBE EMR SYSTEMS PRIVATE LIMITED Food & Beverage Small Runners Up SIERRA ODC PVT LTD Agriculture Small WINNER AVB TECHNOSOLVES BANDEJJIA TRADERS Export / Import Small Runners Up BASELINE PROJECT Global Presence Small Runners Up MANAGEMENT SERVICES LLP Innovative Business Micro Runners Up ENVYSIS TECHNOLOGY Healthcare Micro WINNER JAYANI Sustainable Business Micro WINNER Energy Micro WINNER Manufacturing Micro WINNER Innovative Business Micro Runners Up Sustainable Business Micro Runners Up Technology Micro WINNER 12 \\ Small Enterprise \\ Jan 2022
PINNACLE LEARNING Service Micro Runners Up LLP Service Micro Runners Up Family Run Business Micro WINNER SEARCH ADVISORS SERVICES G PVT LTD Micro JURY AWARD Small JURY AWARD SELLOWRAP Micro JURY AWARD INDUSTRIES PVT LTD Micro JURY AWARD Small JURY AWARD FOCUS EDUMATICS SME OF THE YEAR Micro JURY AWARD PVT LTD SME OF THE YEAR Micro JURY AWARD SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR PAGARIYA FOOD PRODUCTS PVT LTD SIERRA ODC PVT LTD FOCUS EDUMATICS PVT LTD SME OF THE YEAR PAGARIYA FOOD PRODUCTS SME OF THE YEAR PVT LTD SIERRA ODC PVT LTD SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR SHASHILA HEALTHY WOMEN ENTREPRENEUR MASTER PVT LTD 13 \\ Small Enterprise \\ Jan 2022
SMALL ENTERPRISE BUSINESS AWARDS 2021 JURY PANEL Dr.Sunil Shukla Ajay Thakur Samir Sathe (Jury Head), Director General, EDII Head SME, BSE SME, Mumbai EVP, Wadhwani foundation Neetu V Bansal, Dr. Kirankumari Patil, Darshana Thakkar, Founder and Business Director Incubation Center, CEO,– Transformation, Coach, Marketing4Sales REVA University The Strategy Hub Ish Anand, Founder & CEO, Rajendra Deshpande, Business Doctors CEO, Business Value India 14 \\ Small Enterprise \\ Jan 2022
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NOMINEE INTERVIEW SMALL ENTERPRISE BUSINESS AWARDS 2021, NOMINEE INTERVIEW EXCLUSIVE: ENVISYS Dr Anil Kumar Kottani, Mahantesh Gowda Patel, Basavaraju.K.M (left to right), Directors, EnvisysTechnologies Pvt Ltd. TECHNOLOGIES Envisys Technologies in the year one fine day with dreams in mind PVT LTD 2014 intending to become a while starting a career after our number one customized education in a city like Bangalore. BANGALORE solutions provider cum supplier The guts to become an in India supplying its products to entrepreneur is learnt through How did the idea for your pan India and the international our experiences early in our lives business come about? markets. when we started our career as an Ans: The founders of Envisys employee turned intrapreneur Technologies with a cumulative What was your key driving and finally an entrepreneur with experience of more than 30 years force to become an years of experience and expertise in similar lines of business after entrepreneur? to become an entrepreneur. identifying the need for a reliable Ans: The key driving force to supplier in the environmental become an entrepreneur is the How did you come up with the testing chambers market of India innermost desire or fire to name for your company? to suffice the upcoming demand become one such entrepreneur Ans: The name ENVISYS is in the market for environmental test chambers especially the one with an ability to customize the requirements of a spectrum of industries started this company 27 \\ Small Enterprise \\ Jan 2022
evolved after an extensive etc., by making sure that buyers word-of-mouth marketing. brainstorming session among the find Envisys as their preferred founders of Envisys and finally supplier during their online Envisys has developed an decided to name it ENVISYS search for suppliers of impressive website which is formed as a short-form Environmental Test Chambers www.envisystech.com which is of ENVironmental SYStems. The within India and as well as the highly dynamic and informative full name is established as international markets. Envisys has for its prospects acting as its 'Envisys Technologies' because of successfully created an online 24x7 online platform providing the nature of the business which platform in such a way that every information about its products is in the engineering and science enquiry which may get generated and services to category. through online mode for testing prospectivecustomers/visitors. chambers across the world How did you raise funding for markets on a day-to-day basis Envisys is also taking its lead in your venture? through online-searchers are the leading online B2B portals of Ans: The initial funding for the finding Envisys in their search India and Overseas with venture is through a bank results whereby forwarding their informative catalogues about its financing of cash credit limits leads or enquiries to Envisys. products and services. Envisys against the security of collaterals has acquired a leading supplier of founders and a convincing How do you market your status with a trust seal in one of project report about the viable business, and which tactics the leading B2B portal of India business with promising business have been most successful? IndiaMart. Envisys has its projections in the report and independent URL strengths of the founders. Ans: Unique selling proposition www.envisystech.in from (USP) of Envisys at all times shall TradeIndia as a premium seller How do you build a successful be its approach to the market which is another leading B2B customer base? with high-quality product, portal of India. Exporters India Ans:Envisys believes in acquiring competitive price and efficient B2B portal is showcasing Envisys its customers through a pull after-saleservice. This approach Products in its dedicated URL strategy. We are building a of Envisys has been recognized in www.envisystechnologies.in with successful customer base using a the market by the buyer-market an advertisement banner in its new generation of powerful tools whereby generating several portal. Envisys has exhibited its of e-marketing (electronic customer-sellers for its products products in the world-renowned marketing) like SEO, B2B Portals and services through online exhibition stand of Jan 2022 \\ Small Enterprise \\ 28
DiretIndustry.com and has listed partners whose mutual success as well as personally. its products on Alibaba.com to or failure depends on how reach the prospects in the efficiently, effectively and jointly What motivates you? overseasmarket. they serve the customers. Hence, Ans: The biggest motivation for the core area of after-sale service us is giving employment to Search engine optimization (SEO) ownership is given to a team people and building future is another vital tool applied by directly or indirectly involved in leaders. According to us, there is Envisys in optimizing its presence customer service by encouraging no satisfaction or motivationin in the top pages of various them to share the our liveswhich is greater than search engines viz., Google, revenue/profits generated from giving livelihood/bright careerto Yandex etc., The results of online customer service revenue among many talented people with job searches are being consistently themselves apart from their opportunities in our company improved and expanded to other regular remunerations which the with the freedom to learn. Also, potential markets of other team gets from the company. another notable motivation to countries organically for This ownership culture is where name is ‘serving the nation’ most-searched keywords in the each employee acts as an owner directly or indirectly as a environmental testing chambers by improving how well customers backbone of our country’s market. areserved economy with employment and revenue generation. Apart from the above Envisys Can you describe/outline your also has developed marketing typical day? What is unique about your and service networks all over Ans: Morning operational review business? India to localize its presence in and planning with functional Ans: Unique about our business the potential markets of India. heads. Getting back to work as is providing quality one-stop Envisys has also expanded its per the plan. Direct/online customized environmental footsteps in the international meetings with customers, testing solutions according to markets by appointing suppliers and other stakeholders testing requirements of the authorized distributors in USA as per the calendar. Dedicated spectrum of industries like AND CANADA, UK, RUSSIA, time for developmental activities automotive, electronics, defence, KOREA AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN of each function/department aerospace at competitive prices COUNTRIES. reviewed on monthly basis. etc., Exhibitions are one of the key How has being an entrepreneur What is your greatest fear, and promotional strategies of Envisys affected your family life? how do you manage fear? to showcase its products to Ans: During the initial years of Ans: We name the fear in target customers. Envisys starting a business one need to business as a risk. The risk in participates in all the relevant sacrifice his or her family time business is an integral part of any national and international until the business stabilizes and a business. We at Envisys believe exhibitions wherein the core or second-line management that we need to learn the art of awareness of the Envisys team is built to look after the minimising risk. There is one capabilities is demonstrated to day-to-day activities of the saying “instead of waiting for the potential buyers. business. However, balancing clouds to go away learn to dance both family and business purely in the rain”. This is what we What kind of culture exists in depends on how we manage believe when it comes to your organization, and how did both amidst commitments on managing risk. Of course, as a you establish it? both sides. Empowering the team strategy, we have created Ans: Envisys believes in an and delegation is the key to different business revenue ownership culture where each finding time professionally and verticals in our business to employee sees colleagues as combat any such unexpected risk 29 \\ Small Enterprise \\ Jan 2022
to any one of the business intelligence, skills, leadership entrepreneur to decide. But if verticals. Other verticals should qualities and various other one can build an elevator in his compensate for the loss or traitswhich any entrepreneur may building why climb a corporate support the ongoing business. require to succeed. ladder? How do you define success? What advice would you give to Ans: Success according to us is a someone who is trying to mindset become an entrepreneur? Ans: You have to work on the 1Do you believe there is some business first before it works for sort of pattern or formula to you. Starting abusiness is like becoming a successful writing a chapter in the book of entrepreneur? your life which will make it a Ans: Not really. Success as an bestseller. It’s all about your entrepreneur varies from one confidence in your business entrepreneur to another concept, idea or experience. If it entrepreneur. It depends on the is a new idea, whether it works? strengths and weaknesses of If it is already a working business, each individual who wishes to how well do you differentiate become an entrepreneur in terms yourself from the competition? of his or her passion, creativity, So, it is the task of an 31 \\ Small Enterprise \\ Jan 2022
NOMINEE INTERVIEW SMALL ENTERPRISE BUSINESS AWARDS 2021, NOMINEE INTERVIEW EXCLUSIVE: SHASHILA Dipti Singhal Shivali Garg HEALTHY typical Rajasthani married maida, preservatives, chemicals, woman. But when the duty and artificial colors. She used to MASTER changed from being a daughter think, what to do, how to serve in law and wife to being a perfect kids nutritious snacks. PVT LTD mother, things got changed for her. That shift of role, completely She started exploring various How did the idea for your transformed her life. options. But she couldn’t find start-up come about?Even after anything. being an interior designer, Shivali We all know, mom’s are very ( founder & my best friend) never possessive about their kids' Finally, she started experimenting thought of pursuing it as a health. Likewise, when Shivali herself in the kitchen with grains career. Reason being, the became a mother, her like wheat, Jawar, Ragi, etc. upbringing of old school consciousness didn’t allow her to thoughts, girls are born to be serve her kids unhealthy packet She failed often, but she didn’t good house wives. For the time snacks. As airy food is full of quit. She kept trying hard and Shivali got married, she played finally got successful in serving the role of a perfect daughter in law and wife. She used to stay awake until midnight to serve her husband fresh dinner. She was completely busy in being a 32 \\ Small Enterprise \\ Jan 2022
her kids healthy homemade and and myself we had many I am sure most of the start ups flavory snacks. Then she thought, brainstorming session on the has to go through the selection of company name and challenges, we also had many like herself, there are other finally Tarun has suggested the initial hurdles. Vendors were not mom’s also, who are possessive name \"Healthy Master\" Both of ready to manufacture on our about their kid’s health. us loved it. The idea behind this terms & conditions as our initial Therefore, she started doing name is ; Master's of everyone's order size was not that great, informal exhibitions of these good health. hiring right talent was also a snacks in her society. challenge. But with proper People started liking her What is unique about your planning and dedication we have nutriment and encouraged her to business? overcome with all these add more variety. Healthy Master is pioneer of challenges. I was also worried about serving healthy Snacks without any my family air pumped food. But I preservatives that is based out of How has being an entrepreneur loved Shivali’s homemade millets and surprisingly its affected your family life? snacks. I used to give genuine non-fried. It's an E commerce I was already in full time feedback on her experiments. platform with 250 plus products employement so for me That shining Sunday, we both that includes Millet based (Jawar, entreprenur journey was better best buddies were talking. We Bajara, Ragi) - baked chips, than full time job with corporate were dreaming about a blend of noodles, vermicelli, Khakhra, giants as I felt to have better mystic healthy and delicious cookies (with jaggery and work life balance. but for Shivali snacks for their kids and family. unrefined sugar), puffs; Berries, yes it was a challenging phase to Finally the idea popped up with a seeds & nuts etc. become an entreprenuer from a random thought of taking this home maker. But she has proved snack idea forward as a start-up It offers a robus munching verywell in her new role and set and helping everyone eat healthy platform without compromising an example for all women leaders break meals. the taste buds. @ Healthy Matser who wants to take a big leap in How did you come up with the we believe - \"It's easy to switch their life but keep thinking and name for your company? but difficult to quit\". Also getting demotivated due to one Tarun, CEO & Co founder, Shivali Provides various healthy options or other reasons. to switch to healthier alternatives. What motivates you? Zeal to make everyone master's How do you build a successful of their own health with the help customer base? of Healthy Master and make We provide a complete E India healthy - This vision always commerce platform to our push three of us. customers, easy ordering using website - www.healthymaster.in How do you define success? Do or our IOS/ android application. you believe there is some sort Initially in 2019 we have of pattern or formula to launched our Android app along becoming a successful with our website and later in entrepreneur? 2021 we have launched our IOS I always remember Swami app considering the customers Vivekanand's this quote : demand. Our logistics supports PAN India operations. “Take up one idea, make that one idea your life. Think of it, dream Can you describe/outline your of it, Live on that idea let the typical day? brain, muscles, nerves, every part Jan 2022 \\ Small Enterprise \\ 33
of your body be full of that idea, We work with various industry one and monthly brain and just leave every other idea like - Fitness industry, IT Industry, storming sessions with entire alone. This is the way to success.” automation industry, Retail chain team. In that employees share stores. Our products are suitable their thoughts in terms of any Same we have applied - The idea for all kinds of industry and it is scope for process of making India healthy without available at Amazon, flipcart, improvement, their comproising with individuals swiggy, Zomato, Meesho and suggestions, feedback, any taste buds. Efforts are still on… many more online platforms. concerns ( if any) is getting addressed. What is your greatest fear, and Our key corporate clients are how do you manage fear? Amazon, Toshiba, Tally Solutions Our admin staff take care of Pvt Ltd, Venky's. complete work place hygiene Leaving well established and good working conditions. corporate job and start a What kind of culture exists in company. The biggest fear was - your organization, and how did We make the environment bit Will I be able to get good result? you establish it? of challenging and alot the It requires a huge investment, We have robust system to keep assignment based on when will reach on break even our employees happy and employee interest and talent. and many more. But with the motivated : We follow Golidilock Rules in support of Tarun and Shivali - terms of work distribution. To overcome with all the inhibitions. We have monthly award less will become boring and ceremony in which we too much will loose the Please mention the kind of recognize the employees for interest. The apt amount clients/industry that you their extra miles and efforts. based on employees worked with pre-dominantly capabilities. over the last 2-3 years We practice Weekly one on 34 \\ Small Enterprise \\ Jan 2022
NOMINEE INTERVIEW SMALL ENTERPRISE BUSINESS AWARDS 2021, NOMINEE INTERVIEW EXCLUSIVE: LK customer base in the engineering Within just 5 years of span, he was sector apart from the automotive successful in acquiring prestigious AUTOMOTIVE components. clients in the automotive industry. L. K. Automotive has become an INTERVIEW In 1999, after the completion of a approved supplier for many B. E. in mechanical engineering, fabricated components for How did the idea for your Mr. Sachin Siddhpura has joined automotive giants like General business come about? his father’s company L. K. Motors (GM), TI Group K. Automotive was started by Mr. automotive as a Sales Engineer. (Murrugappa group, Chennai), Tata Chimanbhai Siddhpura in 1982 With his technical know-how and group, KLT, SODECIA-India, with rented space in the global market trend, Mr. Sachin KI-USA, etc. Makarpura GIDC, Vadodara. has identified a huge opportunity Initially, the operation started with in the automotive and engineering What was your key driving force very basic fabricated components sector for more precise and to become an entrepreneur? of Tractor assembly. Our first complicated automotive parts. During my engineering study from customer for this engineering business was Gujarat Tractor Limited in Vadodara, Gujarat. Eventually, under the leadership of Mr. Chimanbhai Patel, the business expanded to cater to a more 35 \\ Small Enterprise \\ Jan 2022
the Mumbai university, I worked the Saurashtra region of Gujarat. conservative in terms of spending on the project “Fuel Injection My Father moved to Vadodara in money. We utilize all the resources System” for the car. During the 1982 and started the Engineering very efficiently and my father was detailed study of the automotive unit for the fabrication of the also working very actively to system, I come across many critical automotive component with manage whole business components which are very inspiration from his Father. So that operations. With his hard work, important for the efficient and safe with the initial letter from his name dedicated efforts, and the grace of functioning of the car. Keeping L. for Laljibhai and K. for God, we were able to manage that in mind I decided to drive my Khodabhai, we registered our purchase our factory with our career in the area of the company as L. K. Industries. profit only without any external automotive industry. Fortunately, funding. My father is in the engineering and How did you raise funding for fabrication business. I decided to your venture? How do you build a successful join my father’s company to cater Initially, we have started the customer base? to the high potential automotive business with rented space and A happy existing customer is a sector as an auto ancillary basic machinery with our savings. great source for the new business. company. That was the turning In the begging year f the business, A satisfied customer base helps to point in my life to become an we were doing some activities multiply business with their entrepreneur. outsourced to other companies on requirements and with their a labor contract basis. Eventually referral network. On-time delivery, How did you come up with the from our profit from the business, premium quality, and reasonable name for your company? we started purchasing different prices are the key factors for our My Grandfather Mr. Laljibhai plant machinery some of them as happy customer base. We are Khodabhai was a great source of second-hand machines and some regularly doing customer surveys inspiration to us. By community, as a new fresh machine. Being a and obtain their feedback for the we are Blacksmith originally. My Gujarati and being a business scope of an improvement in our Grandfather was a Blacksmith in community, we are quite product quality and services. We targeted feedback rating score to an average of 65 %. Fortunately, our customer rating is more than 85 % most of the time. Apart from this, we have established a factory near Aurangabad in 1991 to cater to the prestigious customer in the auto industry “Bajaj Auto” with the name SIDDHPURA AUTO INDUSTRY. That unit was exclusive to supplying various components to Bajaj Auto. Eventually, products manufactured in our company were approved as a green channel for Bajaj Auto. Over a period of time with the changing strategy and management at our customer end, our contract to supply is ended in 2005. Jan 2022 \\ Small Enterprise \\ 36
How do you market your Company uniform, Safety shoes, hurdles. Then I review the business, and which tactics have and all PPE for human safety are production of the previous day been most successful? our prime focus for safer factory and the delivery schedule of the As I mentioned above, a Happy operation. Periodically we provide current day. After that, I review the customer is a great source for training related to safety and a other task related to the Sales, generating business. Our satisfied safer work culture. Periodic Account, and purchase team. customers are the first source to training and the utmost care from Communication with the customer give more and more business with management towards employees regarding the delivery schedule other products. Their positive keep them motivated to follow all and inspection requirements is a feedback helps us to generate the guidelines for the operations. part of my day-to-day activities. I more leads. Noppen OEM Media is Our team strictly follows 5S also need to review periodically for Inia’s no 1 Automotive journal. We practices for all the processes on outstanding payments of vendors often use that for advertising our the shop floor as well as for the and suppliers with my accounts products. Apart from that we often Office Administration. team. Prompt response to participate in Domestic and customer queries is our priority at International Trade shows. Can you describe/outline your all times. Recently we have participated in typical day? Hannover Mess in Germany. As being a small enterprise and For every two hours, I visit the Family run business, we need to shop floor to ensure smooth What kind of culture exists in take care of all the business production flow and to check your organization, and how did functions. My day at works starts whether everything is in line with you establish it? at 8.30 am as the factory opens. In the production schedule. If there is Our all team members are just like the morning first I visit the shop any trouble or any delay because family to us. The regularity of each floor to ensure that all the team of any reason I resolve the same employee for the factory hours is members are present and start by taking suitable decisions. My the result of our motivated team. their allocated works without any day ends at 6 pm normally with the last visit on the shop floor in the normal course of time. How has being an entrepreneur affected your family life? Being an entrepreneur is a challenge in terms of managing all the tasks. Every day new challenges related to various business function is a part of life for any entrepreneur. But our systematic planning of all the tasks and with the help of the efficient and reliable team, we can manage the business operation smoothly without much disturbance on the family life. We plan the whole production process and customer delivery to ensure smooth flow of work, This helps us to avoid working for an excessive hour and 37 \\ Small Enterprise \\ Jan 2022
working on holidays. This is the received from the customer is we were a green channel supplier key driver for satisfactory family having a unit weight of 2.3 Kg per for several years. About our 80 % life despite having a huge unit. With the help of our business stack is with a single responsibility of an enterprenural innovative team, we have customer. With the sudden change journey. successfully developed the same in management and their policy, component with better quality and we were terminated from the What motivates you? price which weigh only 1.25 kgs approved vendor list without Satisfied customer and their per unit. This way we help our giving any reasonable reason. positive feedback and appreciation customer to reduce their input That’s a very huge impact on the is the single important factor to cost as well. survival of our business in the motivate me to do more and more respective period. with continuous improvement in What is your greatest fear, and our products and services how do you manage fear? One more example, we were In terms of business, our greatest approved and green channel What is unique about your fear is the loss of business. As we vendor for the supplies of several business? are dealing with a very specialized parts to General Motor, Vadodara Despite being a micro-enterprise, product line by serving very few for many years. A few years back we are strictly following various large corporates, loss of business the company management has lean tools in our organization for any reason results in a huge strategically decided to relocate effectively. 5 S, Kaizen, Kanban, impact on our business their manufacturing plant from and continuous improvement is sustainability. For example change Gujarat to another state of India. inherent characteristics of the in management of large Again that was a huge loss of team L. K. Continuous corporates or any strategic business to our organization. improvement and innovation in decision at our customer end product manufacturing is a unique affects adversely to our business How do you define success? feature for a company like us in despite having very good product Customer satisfaction and repeat the sector. Customer loyalty is our quality. customer with added product line prime motto irrespective of the is the main definition of success profit margin. For example in I would like to give one classic for me. recent times the order we have example over here. In Bajaj auto- Do you believe there is some sort of pattern or formula to becoming a successful entrepreneur? Say It Is said that the customer is God. We exist until our customer exists. Customer satisfaction is the ultimate driver for our success. One more thing important for success I risk-taking ability. Being a Gujarati business community, risk-taking is an inherent characteristic. So decision making at the right time and foreseeing the future mixed with calculated risk is the formula for success. 38 \\ Small Enterprise \\ Jan 2022
SMALL ENTERPRISE BUSINESS AWARDS 2021 NOMINEE INTERVIEW BASELINE PROJECT MANAGEMENT SERVICES LLP. Gaurav Gupta, Partner, Baseline Project Management Saurabh Arora, Partner, Baseline Project Management How did the idea for your business come about? complete lack of information to take timely and Our Reply: While working with large business informed decisions. Understanding this gap we conglomerates we realized that there is a large decided to provide professional Project Management requirement in India about the Project Management Services to Tier-2 / SME construction companies. All Services for Tier 2 / SME construction companies. Tier the partners in Baseline are from a Project 2 / SME construction companies either work directly Management background and have domain expertise with Owners or get the work as sub-agencies from in managing mid to large size projects as per best Large Construction companies. Large Construction industry practices. companies work on a model where the work scope is broken into different modules and handed over to What was your key driving force to become an smaller Tier-2 contractors. However, the integration entrepreneur? of the Project Schedule with various small agencies Our Reply: \"The instinct to create something new and becomes very difficult and unmanageable. Also, the add value to the people who really need it\". We want availability of skillset/resources with these small to bring a difference in the Project Management contractors, to understand the Project management domain by adding value to the Tier-2 / SME requirements is scarce. This leads to a delay and construction agencies. 39 \\ Small Enterprise \\ Jan 2022
How did you come up with the name for your and each employee is free to approach their company? teammates for any discussion or clarification. Though Our Reply: In Project management parlance, Baseline small, we have incorporated the best management is the benchmark against which the project progress practices in our organization i.e. our Finances, is monitored. Hence, we named our company as Employee benefits, Project schedules etc. are all 'Baseline' to become a benchmark in the Project monitored online. The working hours are not Management domain. watertight but timely delivery is the key. We keep our employees updated by providing them with requisite How did you raise funding for your venture? training. We also have annual outbound trips to Our Reply: Our company is bootstrapped and as of create better bonding and understanding among the now we have not raised any funds for our venture. team members. We have managed our operations through our ongoing projects. However, now we have a minimum Can you describe/outline your typical day? viable product ready i.e. WINGSTAR – Online Project Our Reply: We start our work by 9:30 AM with a Management Application. We are ready to infuse heads up meeting with all discipline leads planning capital for an exponential growth curve ahead. This for the day. A lot of time goes into Client calls, sales can be in the form of pre-series A funding or Angel pitches, accounting-related tasks, managing funding. employee processes. Having a small team, we need to wear many hats and multitask. An online meeting How do you build a successful customer base? has come in handy as a lot of time which went into Our Reply: We go by the mantra - Project success is travelling has been saved. Though still a couple of everybody's success. Being into the project's sphere, days in a week are spent in travelling and visiting the project success is the only parameter that binds prospective clients or the existing projects. all the stakeholders together. Hence, focussing on the same diminishes any difference of opinion of the How has being an entrepreneur affected your stakeholders as all are working towards the same. family life? Doing so, transforms the relationship between Our Reply: Entrepreneurship asks for a lot of your stakeholders from that of competition to time and often, we are not able to give adequate “collaboration”, thereby reducing unnecessary time to family. But having a supportive family is one hurdles. Further, standing true to our commitment big positive that keeps us both focussed and and going beyond the call of duty to support the motivated. We try to spend quality time with family project success has helped us retain customers. on weekends. Further, having like-minded partners gives one a bit of relief and collectively we could How do you market your business, and which manage situations where giving time to the family for tactics have been most successful? one of the partners becomes inevitable. Our Reply: Our deliverables are our best marketing tools and our customers are our brand ambassadors. What motivates you? Thus we go beyond our line of duty to ensure that Our Reply: Each satisfied customer motivates us to the projects are managed well. Our ethical conduct take up new assignments. Also, the very idea to and professional working practices make our create the paradigm shift by the implementation of customers trust us and thus give us repeat orders. Project Management principles at the grass-root 70% of our orders are repeat orders. We share all the level is another driving factor for us. design seed files with our customers as we believe it is their property as they have paid for the same. So What is unique about your business? although our growth has been a bit slow but has Our Reply: \"Back office Project Management\" is been on firm ground. something which is not existing in the market. We have developed cloud-based software for fetching What kind of culture exists in your organization, daily site information, that is easy to use and does and how did you establish it? not require extensive training. Our software needs Our Reply: We have a very open working culture in training for only a few of the users (System our organization. We have an almost flat organisation Administrators) that too is minimal. For ground-level 40 \\ Small Enterprise \\ Jan 2022
users, the training required is just an orientation to engage with our team and try to keep them make them understand how to update their daily motivated, Plan for their growth and give them free work progress from the desktop or their mobile app. hand in deciding their way of working. Also, they are motivated to face the customers and increase their It also hardwires into the system the chain of span of work for better exposure and quick learning. command and fixes responsibility for timely progress updates. The real-time dashboard and issue tracking How do you define success? methodology also make the team directly engaged Our Reply: Success is meeting customer expectations to project outcomes. It also reduces the redundant and paving way for higher grounds. The efforts of making a daily progress report and MIS entrepreneurial journey does not have a terminal, but charts. It is on the cloud, teams can manage projects interim stops, which in our thinking allow us to be from remote locations and is ideal for projects spread satisfied that we have reached so far and also the over multiple project locations. As of now, Tier-2 / requisite breather to introspect and plan ahead. In SME Contractors and Developers generally use excel my opinion, if you can learn from your failures and sheets, e-mails, handwritten records and spend lots capitalise achievement of your interim milestones, of their time struggling in making reports and that’s what success is. updating the progress rather than analysing the project data for project success. If our clients require Do you believe there is some sort of pattern or it, we can give them back-office support to manage formula to becoming a successful entrepreneur? their projects much more effectively by analysing the Our Reply: In my opinion, there is no defined formula data available. So our customers can enjoy the to become a successful entrepreneur. Every services of qualified Project Management experts at entrepreneur has to write his success formula on his very affordable costs. own. The originality of the formula itself is a precursor for success. While giving priority to What is your greatest fear, and how do you customer needs and having a motivated team cannot manage fear? be overstated. The ability to take the risk, with a Our Reply: The greatest fear is to keep the team proper risk mitigation strategy in place can help in motivated in the lean times. As an old saying - The achieving your targets as an entrepreneur. Success best way to overcome your fear is to face it and hope for any entrepreneur is a paradox..!! for the best and be prepared for the worst. So, we 41 \\ Small Enterprise \\ Jan 2022
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NOMINEE INTERVIEW SMALL ENTERPRISE BUSINESS AWARDS 2021, NOMINEE INTERVIEW EXCLUSIVE: PARVATI Foundryman, Calcutta in 1965. entrepreneur? My passion to serve the TECHNOCAST This way I worked for almost 10 engineering industry with a years with 2 to 3 prestigious specialized sector ignited the (GUJARAT) companies in Vadodara. During entrepreneurial fire in me. I have my career in working with the started my first business as a PRIVATE LIMITED engineering company, I realized foundry to manufacture casting that “CASTING IS THE MOTHER for machine tools. Initially, I have How did the idea for your FOR ANY MACHINE BUILDING started my factory in a rented business come about? COMPANY” Then after in 1975, I space of just 600 sq. ft. I have completed my Graduation have started my entrepreneurial in Science with a specialization in journey by establishing a 3.How did you come up with the Chemistry in 1964. Then after foundry. name for your company? immediately I have joined Batliboi company as a laboratory What was your key driving I have started my foundry with chemist. Batliboi was the leading force to become an the name of R. J. foundry. R is and prestigious company in Machine tool manufacturing. During my tenure at Batliboi , I realized the importance of Casting in the Machinery. Eventually, I have done the course at the Indian Institute of 43 \\ Small Enterprise \\ Jan 2022
the initial of my own digital platforms, we have tied up casting in a typical name Jivanbhai. with some external marketing engineering company. agencies like India mart to With the growth of expand our market across the What kind of culture business and market, we geography and to tap the exists in your decided to transform our potential market beyond the organization, and how business at a little larger range of our network. did you establish it? scale. We formed a new private limited company How do you market your All members of our in 2012 with the new business, and which tactics factory are just like a name Parvati Techno cast have been most successful? family members for us. (Gujarat) private limited. We have established our As a Hindu our Consistent quality and on-time organizational culture devotional faith is in Lord delivery is the key to the success over a period of time as Shiva. And Maa Parvati is to retain the customer for long we have grown from just a symbol of strength. so period. Apart from this, we are 2 employees to 17 we decided to make our providing casting with many people now. company name as Parvati specializations like non-ferrous techno cast (Gujarat) casting, Ni-hard casting, CI Can you private limited. casting, steel casting, Wear describe/outline your resistance casting, Ductile typical day? How did you raise Casting, High chrome casting, funding for your etc. This wide range of casting in My day starts in the venture? our product basket helped us to business at 9.00 am. The become a single-source supplier day-to-day operations including Initially, I started my business for all the requirements of production, Marketing, Quality, part-time along with my job. I Dispatch, etc are managed by my used rented space for the initial Son Mr. Ajay Patel. Who is a few years and used my saving for metallurgy engineer by the fixed and working capital qualification. Now after investing requirements. I was also doing 20 years in the business consulting business along with operation, he is handling the my job and business. I have whole operation independently. I utilized my knowledge and usually share my experience and experience of a foundry in expertise for innovation, new guiding other foundries to product development, to develop quality castings. This improve productivity and quality. helped me to earn some seed Along with the business activity funds for the expansion of my now I am also associated with business. many charity and social activities. How do you build a successful Apart from these, I have been customer base? associated with Makarpura GIDC Industries Association (MGIA) for Our happy customer itself is a the last ten years and now I am a strong marketing tool. With our present of the association.. I strong network in the industry invest 2 to 4 hours daily in and maintaining good quality, we developing an entrepreneurial have developed a huge customer spirit in young people and in base across India. In recent years, assisting other enterprises to considering the importance of help them with resolving various Jan 2022 \\ Small Enterprise \\ 44
problems related to industry and business? customers. In our industry liasoning. We are providing a variety of segment, we are a single-source casting for diverse applications supplier for diverse casting How has being an entrepreneur under one roof. So our requirements of any industry. The affected your family life? customers do not need to go customer doesn’t need to find with another supplier for any of another foundry for any of their As our business activities are well their casting requirements. This is casting. Our consistent quality planned and organized, we are not possible for most of the and ability to produce as per able to manage business industries in our segment. respective Indian standards comfortably. Moreover our helped us to become successful faithful employees and with the What is your greatest fear, and in our industry sector. grace of God we are able to how do you manage fear? manage the business optimally There is no fear at all. I believe in What advice would you give to without major disruption in karma. DO your work in your someone who is trying to family life. best way and keep faith in God become an entrepreneur? for the result. Dedication to your work and What motivates you? consistent quality is the key to We are able to serve the How do you define success? becoming successful in the customer from the distance area Happy customer and day by day interneural journey. of our country is an appreciation growing business is the definition for our brand name and quality. of success for us. NB: Kindly submit the answers We manufacture all casting for the above 15 questions on strictly as per respective IS Do you believe there is some standards. Appreciation from the sort of pattern or formula to or before 11th Dec’21. customer for our consistent becoming a successful quality and on-time delivery is a entrepreneur? Along with the answers, please great source of motivation for us. It is said that the customer is king. One happy customer helps reply with 2 -3 Photos of yours/ What is unique about your to acquire more than 5 Office team / Premise/factory 45 \\ Small Enterprise \\ Jan 2022
Pioneer in manufacturing of Graded casting and machinery parts as per respective IS standard in premium quality and with proof machining • Ni-Hard Castings • CI and DI Flanges • SG Iron Castings • High Chrome Casting • Steel Castings • Wear-resistant casting • CI Castings • Manganese steel casting • Ductile iron casting • Glass mould casting • Alloy steel casting • Machinery Parts Our wide Customers base include reputed OEM in various industry sector including electrical appliances, Machinery manufacturer in domestic as well as in global market. Parvati Techno cast (Guj) Private Limited 688, GIDC, Makarpura , Vadodara-390010,Gujarat, India Website: www.parvatitechnocast.co.in E-mail : [email protected] Contact : Mr. Ajay Patel : 9227416365, Mr. Jivanbhai Patel :9221442196
SUCCESS STORY STEM CONSULTANCY Engineering rapidly in domestic as well as & overseas markets. STEM Intec LLP Construction. is in the process to get Independent TPI certification Technical very soon with the extended Expert efforts of the team. STEM Intec Services & LLP offers different services i.e. Certification. Inspection, Expediting, Testing (NDT) and Certification. During the journey of 8 The founder Bhartendu Vimal Jha years, STEM has is the Director & CEO of the achieved few STEM Group. He has acquired awards and proficiency in the field of Service recognition for Business. He has vast experience excellence in a in dealing with various industry different area. sectors like Manufacturing, Marine, Oil & Gas (Offshore & “STEM” is a group of companies In the year Onshore), Power, etc. in reputed that includes STEM Intec LLP & 2018, STEM MNC’s companies in India as well STEM Consultancy with the slogan has been awarded as “MSME as Abroad. He is the recipient of of “Serve to you & the society” as India 5000 for Quality briefed below. Excellence” by TQV. Award “India 500 Best CEO” in the year 2019He has been “STEM Consultancy” is a Service In 2019 received BenchMark awarded by Chief Minister of Solution Provider in India & Abroad “India 500 Best CEO” by TQV. Bihar (Mr. for several industries majorly NitishKumar)@ChetnaSamiti, involved in Oil and Gas Sectors. In the year 2020 STEM has Patna for “Social & Cultural STEM Consultancy Registered in received recognition as “Most Activities & Contribution” in the year 2013, as a Proprietorship Enterprising Business” by NARF. the year 2018 firm,with the rapid business growth and resource requirement in the In the year 2020 has received At STEM Our Mission is to year 2016, STEM Consultancy the award for “Business provide world-class, time-bound registered as a Partnership firm. At Excellence” NARFBy NARF professional services with Speed, STEM, we are offering top-class (National Achievers Efficiency, and Responsibility. manpower deployment services Recognition Forum. STEM group is aspiring to which includes: become a multi-disciplinary In 2020 by the MSME manpower service provider under Inspection, Expediting, Testing. Chamber of Commerce, one roof for Skills, Talents, recognized as “Most Attitude & Capability on-demand Payroll. Enterprising Business”. basis. Outsourcing. In the year 2020 considering the Our goal is to exceed customer volume of business and market satisfaction by providing timely Recruitment. potential “STEM Intec LLP” is and on-demand availability of established as an independent qualified, dedicated, and highly Consulting. entity for dealing specially in the experienced personnel in the Inspection and testing portfolio respective domain area. Auditing. of our esteemed clients. “STEM Intec LLP” has grown very Training. 47 \\ Small Enterprise \\ Jan 2022
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SUCCESS STORY PARVATI TECHNOCAST (GUJARAT) PRIVATE LIMITED Parvati techno cast is in the manufacturing of a variety of casting for diverse applications under one roof that includes both ferrous and non-ferrous casting. So the customers do not need to go with another supplier for any of their casting requirements. The castings are supplied with proof machining as per customer requirements and in premium quality. Such a combination of Ferrus and non-ferrous casting and special alloy casting manufacturing under one roof is rarely available in our industry segment. Pioneer in Ajay Patel, Director, Parvati Technocast (Gujarat) Private Limited manufacturing of Graded casting and leadership, the organization has In-house manufacturing facility machinery parts as achieved milestones by adding and well-established per respective IS various product categories to infrastructure spread across 7500 standard in premium cater to a larger industry segment. square ft. of area aids quality and with Later on the second generation, manufacturing world-class quality proof machining. Ajay J. Patel has joined the family of various graded casting and business. Under the Guidance of machinery parts. Parvati Techno Cast (Guj) Private Jivanbhai and the Leadership of Limited is the leading Ajay Patel organization has The company is having an manufacturer of a wide array of started spreading the market in-house capacity of Ni-Hard Castings, Steel Castings, across the Globe. manufacturing 200 tons per SG Iron Castings, Hi-chrome month. The company is having an casting, and wear-resist casting, Machinery Parts. Established in 1975, by the visionary entrepreneur Jivanbhai N. Patel in the heart of Vadodara City, Makarpura GIDC. Under his 49 \\ Small Enterprise \\ Jan 2022
in-house laboratory also for These machines and equipment The entire range is fabricated with carrying out chemical analysis of are handled by a team of highly the finest quality of the raw input material, WIP, and finished experienced professionals that material that is strictly quality products. have in-depth knowledge of the checked by our quality inspectors. domain. The entire workforce These find wide application in Some of our plant and Machinery performs efficiently for meeting Rocker Lever, Rocker Bracket, includes the following. the diversified needs of the clients Sugar Machinery, Process Valves, in the following product Ore Extraction and Cement Electric Induction Furnace categories. All castings are made Industries. strictly as per IS Standard. Heat Treatment Furnace All of the above products are Ni-Hard Castings acknowledged in the industry due Hydraulic Pressure Test to their unique features like Equipment SG Iron Castings abrasion resistance, high durability, and corrosion Shot Blasting Machine Machinery Parts resistance. Our products find extensive application in the Universal testing machine for Steel Castings engineering industry. tensile strength & elongation CI and DI Flanges Pattern shop High Chrome Casting Machining facility Wear-resistant casting Carbon-Sulpher determination equipment Manganese steel casting Temperature measurement CI Castings Digital hardness tester Ductile iron casting supplier Jan 2022 \\ Small Enterprise \\ 50
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