The Story Of India's Fevicol Man, Balvant Parekh

Affectionately called the Fevicol Man, Parekh dispatched Pidilite Industries in 1959, post India's freedom which later turned into an equivalent word to cement in the Indian market.

Conceived in Mahuva, Gujarat Balvant moved to Mumbai to seek after law yet before long bounced into the Quit India Movement dispatched by Mahatma Gandhi back in Gujarat. In the wake of remaining in his old neighbourhood and taking an interest in various social exercises for longer than a year, he later returned to Mumbai to finish his schooling. After he graduated from graduate school, Balvant was reluctant and hesitant to provide legal counsel considering the measure of falsehoods the calling requested. To get by in Mumbai, he at first worked at a colouring and print machine and later joined a wood broker's office as a peon.

Inevitably, with the assistance of a speculator who perceived the ability in his business aptitudes, Balvant began bringing in the cycle, areca nut, paper colours from western nations, and later dispatched his organization Pidilite Industries upheld by his more youthful sibling Sushil Parekh.

Begun with only one processing plant, fabricating a solitary item, Fevicol Pidilite Industries before long tasted accomplishment in the Indian market when Fevicol effectively manufactured an imposing business model in the glue space.

The organization later dispatched two different items Feviquick and M-Seal, which proceeded to work around 70% pieces of the pie each, making Pidilite the known and go to mark for cement in the nation.

Since the time 2006, the brand has maintained its attention on worldwide extension, by setting industrial facilities up in the US, Thailand, Dubai, Egypt, and Bangladesh. The organization has additionally assembled an examination community in Singapore. With shrewd publicizing efforts, Pidilite Industries has taken an unexciting item and made it into a top brand.

A vigorous donor, Balvant established two schools, a school and an emergency clinic in Mahuva, his old neighbourhood. He likewise began the Darshak Foundation, an NGO that reviews the social history of Gujarat and made a liberal gift of Rs 2 crore towards Bhavnagar's science city venture, and set up Balvant Parekh Center for General Semantics and Other Human Sciences. Positioned at number 45 on Forbes Asia's India Rich List with a family fortune of $1.36 billion, Parekh died in 2013 at 88 years old.