Monginis

Last updated

Monginis Foods Pvt. Ltd.
Company type Private company
Industry Bakery, Cakery, Food Processing
Founded1958;66 years ago (1958)
FounderHussein Khorakiwala
Headquarters,
India [1]
Number of locations
1000+ stores (2019)
Area served
India
Egypt
Key people
Zoher H. Khorakiwala (Chairman),
Kumail H. Khorakiwala (Managing Director),
Idris H. Khorakiwala (Managing Director),
Quriash H. Khorakiwala (Managing Director),
Qusai Z. Khorakiwala (Managing Director),
Ebrahim Z. Khorakiwala (Managing Director),
Aliasger K. Khorakiwala (Managing Director),
Murtaza Q. Khorakiwala (Managing Director).
Products Cakes, Pastry, Chocolate, Savories, Confectioneries
Number of employees
1500+
Subsidiaries Delicia Foods
Website monginis.net (India)
monginisbakery.com (Egypt)
A Monginis cake shop in Mumbai Monginis New Cake Shop.jpg
A Monginis cake shop in Mumbai

Monginis is an Indian multinational pastry and bakery chain based in Mumbai with outlets in different cities in India and Egypt.

Contents

History

Early in the 20th century, two Italian brothers ran a catering service in Mumbai's Fort precinct, which was popular with the city's European residents. In 1958, Monginis catering was taken over by the Khorakiwala family, and became Monginis Foods Private Limited. [2] In 1971, the company adopted the franchise model of business, with a stated emphasis on localized production for local tastes. It also models itself on the "food boutique" concept, focusing on quality, presentation and service. It has thereby expanded its brand and reach across the country with a total worth of about 950 million rupees by 2012. [3]

Products

Monginis sells ready-made as well as order-made cakes for catering or carry-out. Individual cake slices are also kept in Monginis stores for dine-in customers. The chain sells both Indian and Western savouries, including samosas, puffs, cutlets and doughnuts. Apart from these, snack foods and breads are also sold at Monginis shops. Monginis has a product line for diabetics, and offers themed products during festivals. The Egyptian brand has called itself Monginis bakery producing chocolates, cakes, pastries and oriental sweets. Fast food snacks include more than 50 items. [4] Monginis also produce more than 30 different gateaux.

Availability

Monginis also provides accessorized carry-out catering, with telephone and internet ordering options. It counts 1000+ exclusive franchises in total, [5] and at least one production center each, in 38 cities. [6] Besides Mumbai the company is present in Ambernath, Raipur, Patna, Dapoli, Chiplun Ahmedabad, Patan, Himatnagar, Aurangabad, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Bhadrak, Bhiwandi, Chennai, Coimbatore, Cuttack, Delhi, Deoria, Goa, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, Kurnool, Nashik, Pune, Junagadh, Palanpur, Rajkot, Secunderabad, Siwan, Surat and Vadodara. It is also present in most cities in Egypt such as Alexandria, Cairo, Suez and Mansoura in Egypt.

Products

Monginis make various products, cakes, are listed below: [7]

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Confectionery</span> Prepared foods rich in sugar and carbohydrates

Confectionery is the art of making confections, which are food items that are rich in sugar and carbohydrates. Exact definitions are difficult. In general, however, confectionery is divided into two broad and somewhat overlapping categories: bakers' confections and sugar confections. The occupation of confectioner encompasses the categories of cooking performed by both the French patissier and the confiseur.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dolly Madison</span> Snack food brand

Dolly Madison is an American bakery brand owned by Hostess Brands, selling packaged baked snack foods. It is best known for its long marketing association with the Peanuts animated TV specials.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tastykake</span> American food company

Tastykake is a line of snack foods manufactured by the Tasty Baking Company, headquartered at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Established in 1914 by Philip J. Baur and Herbert T. Morris and originally selling its product only in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, the company now distributes its products in several states on the East Coast, south to Florida, and has been gradually expanding across the United States.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">McKee Foods</span> Snack food and granola manufacturer

McKee Foods Corporation is a privately held and family-owned American snack food and granola manufacturer headquartered in Collegedale, Tennessee. The corporation is the maker of Drake's Cakes, Fieldstone Bakery snacks and cereal, Little Debbie snacks, and Sunbelt Bakery granola and cereal. The company also formerly operated Heartland Brands.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Entenmann's</span> American baked goods manufacturer

Entenmann's is an American company that manufactures baked goods and delivers them throughout the United States to supermarkets and other retailers for sale to the public. They are often known to have display cases at the end of store aisles. The company offers dessert cakes, donuts, cookies, cup cakes, loaf cakes, pies, cereal bars, muffins, Danish pastries, crumb cakes, and buns among other baked goods. In the past several years, they have added designer coffee flavors along with scented candles to their product line in an effort to broaden its appeal.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mister Donut</span> Fast food doughnut chain

Mister Donut is an international chain of doughnut stores. It was founded in the United States in 1956 by Harry Winokur. Primary offerings include doughnuts, coffee, muffins and pastries. After being acquired by Allied Domecq in 1990, most of the North American stores became Dunkin' Donuts. Outside of the United States, Mister Donut maintains a presence in Japan, El Salvador, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Singapore.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michel's Patisserie</span> Australian café chain

Michel's Patisserie is an Australian chain of bakery-style food outlets purveying cakes, pies, savouries, and espresso coffee. The company is a franchise system that was founded in 1988, and it has over 90 retail outlets in all Australian states and territories, except for Tasmania and Western Australia. The chain employs approximately 4,000 staff and serves approximately 36 million cups of coffee and 9.5 million slices of cake each year. It is the largest pastry chain in Australia. In 2016, Michel's Patisserie Toronto was judged to be National Retail Association Supreme Retailer of the Year.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mrs. Fields</span> American food company specializing in cookies

Mrs. Fields' Original Cookies Inc. is an American franchisor in the snack food industry, with Mrs. Fields and TCBY as its core brands. Through its franchisees' retail stores, it is one of the largest retailers of freshly-baked-on-premises specialty cookies and brownies in the United States and the largest retailer of soft-serve frozen yogurt in the country. In addition, it operates a gifts and branded retail business, entering into many licensing arrangements. Its franchise systems include over 300 franchised and licensed locations throughout the United States and in 22 other countries. It also offers retail grocery products and a gifting catalog under the name of Mrs. Fields Gifts. It is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pepperidge Farm</span> American commercial bakery

Pepperidge Farm is an American commercial bakery founded in 1937 by Margaret Rudkin, who named the brand after her family's 123-acre farm property in Fairfield, Connecticut, which had been named for the pepperidge tree.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Flowers Foods</span> Bakeries of the United States

Flowers Foods, headquartered in Thomasville, Georgia, is a producer and marketer of packed bakery food. The company operates 47 bakeries producing bread, buns, rolls, snack cakes, pastries, and tortillas. Flowers Foods' products are sold regionally through a direct store delivery network that encompasses the East, South, Southwest, West, and the Northwest regions of the United States and are delivered nationwide to retailer's warehouses. It has made acquisitions of a number of bakeries and other food companies over the years, continuing through to the present day. As of February 2013, it had grown to be the "second-largest baking company in the United States".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Royal Brunei Catering</span>

Royal Brunei Catering is a company whose main business is in the catering and restaurant business. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Brunei Airlines.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hostess (snack cakes)</span> Brand of snack cakes made by Hostess brands

Hostess Cake, mostly known simply as Hostess, is a brand under which snack cakes are sold by Hostess Brands. The brand originated in 1919 when the first Hostess CupCake was sold. However, it is better-known as the brand under which Twinkies are sold, after that product appeared in 1930.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Quality Dairy Company</span>

Quality Dairy Company is a family-owned dairy, bakery, and retail/convenience store chain in the Lansing, Michigan metro area. The first Quality Dairy Store opened in 1936 and as of 2023 there are 26 retail locations in the Mid-Michigan area. Quality Dairy Company's headquarters is located near REO Town in Lansing and operates its Dairy Plant and Bakery Plant from central Lansing as well.

Korean baked goods consists of either snacks or bread. Examples include bread, buns, pastries, cakes, and snacks.

References

  1. "Retail-Trends :: New-Concepts – Retailing in Bakery: Yet to Get Brownie Points!". Retail.franchiseindia.com. Retrieved 16 July 2010.
  2. India (22 February 1999). "M/s.Monginis Foods Pvt.Ltd". Gmdu.net. Retrieved 16 July 2010.
  3. "Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, Monginis man". domain-b.com. 12 July 1999. Retrieved 16 July 2010.[ permanent dead link ]
  4. "Monginis Packs A Slew Of Initiatives This Summer To Push Brand Visibility". Financialexpress.com. 22 April 2002. Retrieved 16 July 2010.
  5. Sachin Marya. "Monginis seeks franchisees – Franchise News". News.franchiseindia.com. Archived from the original on 10 February 2010. Retrieved 16 July 2010.
  6. "contact us". Monginis.net. Archived from the original on 18 September 2012. Retrieved 16 July 2010.
  7. "Monginis menu". Archived from the original on 30 December 2020.