RAHUL MODI- FOUNDER & CEO SAPPHIRE FOODS-ORGANIC GROCERIES--MUMBAI-INDIA

Q1. Story behind your Brand name or Logo Our company's name is sapphire foods, sapphire means transparent, royalty, and divine favor...

Q1. Story behind your Brand name or Logo

Our company's name is sapphire foods, sapphire means transparent, royalty, and divine favor of organic. Our logo represents made in India purely.

Q2. Whether this Business is started by you or Legacy of Generations

Legacy was created by my FATHER, he is a farmer and owns a 50-acre organic land in Jabalpur, M.P. He loves nature as it has been proven, time and time again, to reduce depression, anxiety, stress, and anger. Nature helps to make him feel happier and more content as a person.

Q3. What inspired you to start this business / entrepreneurship?
Always wanted to pursue a passion to provide a healthy lifestyle for people and mother nature. Starting a business also provides me a sense of purpose and fulfillment, and the ability to make a difference. Also, it feels nice to be my own boss.

Q4. Kindly introduce about your Business, briefly products and services here.

Sapphire Organic Foods is a pioneer catering to delivering organic farm fresh produced Food pan India & World. The last 25 years into organic farming and delivering Completely natural & farm fresh organic foods gave us a reason to sell more than 1, 00,000+ products in India & the World. We are a team of 2 founders Mr Mahesh Modi & Mr Rahul Modi, 20 Co-workers & soulful farmers who are Growing organic products by emphasizing the use of renewable resources and enhancing the Quality of the environment for future generations. We serve different products like dry fruits, grains, edible oil, pulses, honey, flours, millet, spices, rice, cookies etc.

Q5. What kind of major challenges did you face while starting/doing business?
Few major challenges while I started my business was
1. problem of cash flow due to which I couldn't recruit talented staff.
2. Space was a task as our product line is vast.
3. Returns of products while I sell it online.
4. Time management.

Q6. What were the financial challenges you had during the start of Business and how did you manage ?
1. We invested our time and learned about packaging products smartly which saved a lot of time and saved on it.
2. Focused on less returns.
3. Kept staff so that we can focus on business growth.

Q7. Share with our readers the most inspiring moment in this journey of entrepreneurship or Business journey ?
I started this business during covid time. So initially it was working from home. Slowly my business started doing well so rented out a 150 sqft space and now currently have 1000 sqft space and which makes me feel is less. Shortly have plans to move in bigger space. So happy to see myself grow. Also so blessed to have amazingly genuine staff to work it.

Q8. Who is your role model or Inspiration in life personally or professional life ?
My FATHER is my role model personally as well as professionally, he is a great human being who teaches us how to live a life of integrity, optimism, hope, and determination.

Q9 What are your future plans? Or now what is your vision for the next five years?
1. Future plans are to provide high-quality products and services.
2. To start export of my organic products in many countries.
3. Pitch for an investor.
4. To have retail outlets in other states.
5. To have my own packaging unit.

Q10. What are your Core Power Values in Life?
Core Power Values of my life are confidence, honesty, accountability, perseverance, learning new things, etc.

Q.11 What is the one inspirational or Motivational message you want to share to our esteemed readers?
One quote which I love is by Swami Vivekanand "Conquer yourself and the whole universe is yours!"

Q12. Your accomplishments and Awards
My journey till now has a lot of personal accomplishments like overcoming a problem, taking a risk, working towards a goal, taking on responsibility, helping others, and gaining recognition.

Q13 Associated with various Networking Forums, & Social Organizations
SNOW

Q 14 LinkedIn profile URL link

https://www.linkedin.com/company/sapphire-foods

Q 15 Facebook profile URL link

https://www.facebook.com/sapphire.foods21/?ref=pages_you_manage

Q16 Twitter profile URL link

Q17. Instagram profile URL link

https://instagram.com/sapphireorganicfoods?utm_medium=copy_link

Q18 Whtasapp

https://wa.me/c/919893112233

Q19. Company website & Company blog URL link

www.sapphireorganicfoods.com

Q 20 YouTube channel URL link ( if any)

Q.21.Telegram

https://t.me/sapphireorganicfoods

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