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From Curry Powder to ₹2700 Crore Empire | Eastern Group's Untold Growth Story | #112At the age of 26, at a time when the IPO market was nothing like it is today, a man took his family business public through an IPO.That business, which began by selling curry powder, has now grown into a ₹2,700-crore group.In this episode, he shares:✅ Why he chose to take the company public at just 26.✅ How bringing experienced professionals onto the board in 1998 changed the company.✅ The story behind the merger of two ₹950-crore businesses.✅ Why raising money from investors can cost more than taking a bank loan.✅ What he learned while expanding into new industries.✅ The idea behind building a Kerala Super League football team.✅ Why many family businesses struggle with succession and how to avoid it.✅ His honest views on D2C brands and their future.Watch the full video to find out who he is.The eCom Show - Kerala’s #1 Ecommerce & D2C Podcast.

🎙️ Podcast EpisodeDinu spent nearly 10 years as flying crew with Air India. Today, she's the founder of Aham Collections — a saree and designer-wear brand generating crore-level revenue, built from a single tailoring unit run alongside her flying career.In this episode:✅ How she started a stitching business while still flying full-time✅ Surviving three back-to-back crises: Kerala Floods, Nipah, and COVID✅ Building a Shopify-based ecommerce brand from scratch✅ How AI is used in accounting (Zoho + Shopify integration)✅ Running 3 retail stores with a true omnichannel model✅ Backend systems: supply chain, dispatch, and customer support✅ Her upcoming plan to offer backend-as-a-service for fashion influencersThe eCom Show — Kerala's #1 Ecommerce & D2C Podcast.

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In this episode: → Cloud Kitchen vs Ghost Kitchen vs Hybrid - what actually differs → Running 85 brands from one kitchen - how station-level ops work → Brand dilution and threshold markets - the mistake every F&B founder makes → Revenue per square foot - the metric that actually matters → 85 brands, 5 platforms - how to never depend on one aggregatorThe eCom Show - Kerala's #1 eCommerce & D2C Podcast.

🎙️ Podcast EpisodeHe was a BCA student. Made $50/day from blogging in 2009. Paid ₹1.5 lakh for a domain. Lost ₹19 lakh on an app. Slept in a bed space in Dubai. Today, Sibin is the founder of Libromi - a WhatsApp marketing platform used by Marks & Spencer, Al Madina, and enterprise clients across the Middle East and India.In this episode: → From blogging, AdSense, and affiliate marketing to building a SaaS → How he built and scaled a quick commerce platform → Real business use cases of WhatsApp automation → How AI took their development productivity 20x → How to scale a SaaS through an agency partner modelThe eCom Show is Kerala's #1 ecommerce and D2C podcast. Subscribe - don't miss an episode.

🎙️ Podcast EpisodeA boy who sold chickpeas to earn pocket money. A young man who cried on a Dubai construction site. A businessman whose partner disappeared with everything. All the same person.Mustafa of Silvan Business Group joins The eCom Show.In this episode:- From nothing to 25 showrooms - the real journey- How he built a personal brand on YouTube and Instagram- How the Asarva brand was born- The day he stepped back and his team outperformed him- Baby Vita - a D2C brand built by accident- India's first VR tile showroom- His goal: free nutrition for 1 million children by 2030

A Kerala yogurt brand supplied the Ambani pre-wedding in Jamnagar. That brand is Crumbery - and almost nobody saw it coming.Nahas started out selling tissue paper in Qatar for his family business. At 23, he came back home, spent 6 months learning yogurt production at Mannuthy Dairy College, and launched a zero-preservative yogurt brand with savings, a small loan, and 3-4 people.No revenue for 3 years. No external funding. Just the product.Today, Crumbery crosses ₹15 Cr annually and is on every major modern trade and quick commerce platform in Kerala.In this episode:→ Why he left the Gulf job and came back→ The Mannuthy Dairy College apprenticeship→ First 100 pieces at LuLu - sold out in 3 hours→ 18 months of follow-ups to crack Reliance→ The Ambani supply - what actually happened→ Quick commerce strategy on Swiggy Instamart, Blinkit & more→ How he thinks about marketing spend

Aseem's family has been in the furniture business for 45 years. Traditional shop, offline sales, no digital presence.He took one locked factory shed, a phone, and started posting reels.18 months later - ₹70 lakhs a month, 15 staff, and a Kerala-wide furniture marketplace called Furnish Shop.This is what second-generation thinking looks like.