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INDIAN ACES POWERED BY:

B Harish
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D Kumar Lal
C

F Tahiliani
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H Managing Director
Arab & India Spices
I Food
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K

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N ARAB & INDIA SPICES LLC HAS
established itself as a pioneer in the
O global agriculture trade, becoming one
P of the first millers that catered to the
entire Middle East with a wide variety
Q of high-quality pulses and ground
R spices. It also has its own market-leading
brands, 777, Ameera and Nallari.
S Spices and pulses are in the Tahiliani

T family DNA; the company was
originally born in 1947 in India and
U it sustained successive generations
V until the 1980s when Tahiliani’s father
decided to explore opportunities in
W the Gulf. In 1986, the company was
re-branded as Arab & India Spices,
X
and from a 400 sq-ft facility in Sharjah
Y it focused on importing spices from
India. In 1990, the company switched
Z to its current base in Ajman and, in
2016, opened the Middle East’s largest
food production facility, a 400,000 sq-ft
factory costing AED350m to build.
Having been with the company
since he was 22, Harish Tahiliani has
witnessed this growth first-hand – and,
as managing director, steered its most
recent course. Today, it is one of the q WE HAVE DIVERSIFIED
largest importers of raw pulses from OUR OPERATIONS FROM
most of the major producing countries, MILLING AND GRINDING
including Myanmar, Australia, Canada,
USA, China, UK, and India. TO PROCESSING WHOLE
One of the company’s major SPICES AND PACKAGING.
milestones was receiving its ISO 22000 WE ARE ALWAYS MAKING
certification, an international standard INVESTMENTS TO DRIVE
that defines requirements for a good
safety management system covering SUSTAINABLE,
all organisations in the food chain. LONG-TERM GROWTH”
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