A brief history of Amira

With a passion for purity that began a century ago, the Amira Group has been run by four successive generations of the Chanana family since the company’s inception in 1905. Founded by B.D. Chanana, in 1915, as an agro-commodities trading house that bought and sold local beans and pulses in the Punjab region during the days of the British Raj. This was taken over by his son Karam Chand Chanana, who re-established the company in New Delhi, after the 1947 Partition of India forced him to sell off the company’s assets. He went on to quickly re-establish the firm as one of India’s major rice traders, in the newly independent company.