The Success Story of D-Mart-from Dalal Street to Forbes List.

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The story started in 2002 with Radhakishan Damani, when he founded D-mart in 2002 at that time he was already a millionaire in market. Before, the D-mart has been founded, he has already created a legendary name in Indian Stock Market or Bombay Stock Exchange.  He is an Indian entrepreneur, investor, and {India’s 7th richest man on Forbes list of top 100}[1]. This was all short description about D-mart Founder.

Who is Radhakishan Damani?

Radhakishan Damani was born in 1954 to an Indian Marwari family. RK Damani was dropped out after one year from his B com – Bachelor of Commerce from the ‘University of Mumbai’ to start his first stock marketing Business. After, the death of his father who worked on Dalal Street, he left is ball bearing business and became a stock market and investor. He made huge profits by short-selling stock.

RK Damani started his career as a stockbroker, he slowly understood the whole process about stock market and also, understood that, if he wants to earn more money from market, then he needs to invest his own money in the stock market. As, he was just being a stockbroker, he soon started stock trading his in Indian Stock Market. Later, as he was getting great knowledge about stock market, he is achieving his success in that field. He made huge profit from his stock trading. On mid-90s, he ended up becoming one of biggest stock investor in India.

From Stock Market to creating Retail Empire.

After, ending up with his most successful career of stock market. He decided to start his own work and he founded super market chains D-Mart in the year 2002. The first D-mart super market was open in 2002 in Powai, Mumbai, India. by Radhakishan Damani. He open D-mart to address the growing needs of Indian family.

D-Mart offers wide variety of home products under the same dome. It offers home utility products – including foods, toiletries, beauty product, garment, kitchenware, bed and bath linen, home appliances and many more household items. D-mart is promoted by parent company Avenue Supermarts Limited. (ASL).

Main Aim of D-Mart.

Is to provide the best value for customers, so that every single rupee they spend on shopping with D-Mart gives them more value for money than they would get anywhere else, RK Damani has built D-Mart into an efficient, large and profitable retail chain that is highly respected by customers, partners and employees alike.

From opening one super market chains D-Mart in Powai, Mumbai. D-Mart today, has well established presence in 214 locations across Maharashtra,  Gujarat, Daman, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, NCR, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Rajasthan.  In future, they are planning to expand in other states of India.

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This how Mr. Radhakishan Damani created a Success story, from starting at Dalal Street to Debuting his name at Forbes List in top 100 Richest Indian.

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