Saurabh Group, the early days.

Saurabh Group’s journey began from Myanmar. Till the 1960’s, Bishnu Prasad Neupane’s father, Lila Ram Neupane, was doing retail business alongside running a butter processing factory in Lashio town in the Shan state of Myanmar. After Buddhism was made the state religion in the 1960s, people of Nepali and Indian origin were forced to leave the country. Lila Ram Neupane made a decision to leave Myanmar and resettle in Nepal and started his own business with a wholesale store of textiles in Bhairahawa. During that time, textiles were brought from Kathmandu and distributed there. Later, he also took dealership of the National Trading and Salt Trading Limited.

It was in 1964 when the business took shape of a group and was further diversified. Bishnu Prasad Neupane took up responsibility in 1986 and started the Jagdamba Cement Industries, his first manufacturing venture, in the early 1990s.

Saurabh Photo International, the authorized distributor of Konka products, was in the agency trading business since 1990 and has a strong presence in the market. Currently, the group is mainly involved in the production of cement, steel, tea, spun yarn, PP Woven fabrics, calcium carbonates and other such products. The group’s trading activities continue with imports of Konka products, Citizen watch components and other Chinese products.

Saurabh Group, in the present.

Currently, the group is mainly involved in the production of cement, steel, tea, spun yarn, PP Woven fabrics, calcium carbonates and more. Group’s trading activities are continued with imports of Konka products, citizen watch components and other Chinese products. In the fiscal year of 2016/2017, total turnover of the group exceeded NRS. 3000 crore, equivalent to‎ US$ 291 million. The group has the strength of about 4000 employees from different sectors.