SULABeverages / Wine
Sula Vineyards Ltd
A Stanford engineer quit Oracle, backpacked the world, and came home to plant grapes in Nashik. He ended up creating India's wine industry — and owning ~65% of it.
NSE:SULA· 4 Aug 2026Read →
Listories
The stories behind the tickers
Each story is a long-form look at one Indian listed company — how it was founded, how it makes money, and what the numbers actually mean.
LAOPALAConsumer / Tableware & Glassware
La Opala RG Ltd
India imported its dinner sets for years — expensive from Europe, flimsy from China. In 1988 a Kolkata family bet on opalware to fix that. Today they own 55%+ of India's organised market and export to 40+ countries.
BSE and NSE:LAOPALA· 29 Jul 2026Read →
BECTORFOODFMCG — Biscuits & Bakery
Mrs. Bector's Food Specialities Ltd
A Ludhiana homemaker's 1978 kitchen recipes became national food infrastructure — a dual-engine biscuits, bakery and QSR-supply business that crossed Rs 2,000 cr.
NSE:BECTORFOOD· 21 Jul 2026Read →
POLYCABWires & Cables / Electricals
Polycab India Ltd
His father died when he was 15. He dropped out of school to run a tiny hardware shop in Mumbai's Lohar Chawl. Today that shop is Polycab India — the country's largest wires and cables company.
NSE:POLYCAB· 4 Jul 2026Read →
STOVEKRAFTConsumer Durables — Kitchen Appliances
Stove Kraft Ltd
A kerosene-stove workshop from 1994 grew into a 41-million-unit-a-year kitchen appliance machine that IPO'd 18 times oversubscribed.
NSE:STOVEKRAFT· 24 Jun 2026Read →
EPLPackaging
EPL Ltd (Essel Propack)
Roughly one in every three toothpaste tubes on the planet is made by one Indian company you've never heard of — the story of EPL Ltd.
NSE:EPL· 21 Jun 2026Read →
VINATIORGASpecialty Chemicals
Vinati Organics Ltd
A father named his company after his daughter and bet on two chemicals nobody wanted to make. She turned IBB and ATBS into a global monopoly — ~65% of the world's ATBS, run out of Mumbai.
NSE:VINATIORGA· 17 Jun 2026Read →
SYMPHONYConsumer Durables / Air Coolers
Symphony Ltd
An Ahmedabad architect went bankrupt chasing too many products — then bet everything on a single one and built the world's largest air-cooler brand.
NSE:SYMPHONY· 14 Jun 2026Read →
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