The Original Ice Cream Man of India — Transcript

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1. 0:00This Gujarati went from selling sodas on
2. 0:01the street to creating India's biggest
3. 0:03ice cream factory. Vadilal Gandhi was
4. 0:05running a small soda shop in Ahmedabad
5. 0:07in the 1900s when he saw that Indians
6. 0:09are falling in love with a new treat
7. 0:11called ice cream. So, he started making
8. 0:13handmade ice creams choosing the Kothi
9. 0:15method to earn extra money. But,
10. 0:16everything changed when his son
11. 0:17Ranchhodlal joined the business who was
12. 0:19far more ambitious. He realized that
13. 0:21manual production would keep them a
14. 0:23small sweet shop forever. So, he took a
15. 0:25bold step for which people called him
16. 0:27crazy. He invested everything to import
17. 0:29an ice cream machine from Germany back
18. 0:31in 1926 and shifted from selling sodas
19. 0:34to opening India's first dedicated ice
20. 0:36cream parlor which gradually grew to
21. 0:38multiple outlets. But, the real game
22. 0:39changer came with the third generation.
23. 0:41His sons were determined to become the
24. 0:43world's number one ice cream brand. They
25. 0:44scaled production and introduced flavors
26. 0:46like Cassata in the 1950s which became a
27. 0:49raging hit. After which the next
28. 0:50generations went into exports, even
29. 0:52building India's largest ice cream
30. 0:54factories while maintaining the taste.
31. 0:56That's how Vadilal became a global ice
32. 0:58cream empire present in 45 plus
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