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For a lot of college students, faculty life isn’t all nice and enjoyable studying, particularly within the preliminary years. There may be a number of causes for it like unable to understand what’s being taught, not with the ability to hold your focus, not with the ability to mix effectively with the opposite college students, and many others. and many others.
Nevertheless, for the seven years previous Gurinder Singh of Bangalore, the wrestle was completely different.
Gurinder’s Battle
It was 2015 and he had simply been promoted to the fifth commonplace and had all of a sudden began combating writing notes and with artwork and craft as effectively.
Gurinder’s dad and mom, Sandeep and Pavitter, had been unable to grasp the rationale behind it as he was not the form of youngster to have had any issues in his tutorial life earlier than. However their troubles grew when the complaints of Gurinder not ending homework or not writing notes within the class began piling up.
When Sandeep and Pavitter tried speaking to him, Gurinder expressed that he was undecided why his writing pace had lowered and he was not ready to deal with the writing tempo of the category.
Getting To The Downside
The stress to assist their youngster grew however Sandeep and Pavitter didn’t lose hope. They analyzed the issue themselves and once they noticed Gurinder attempting to jot down they realized the Gurinder was merely left-handed. Although it is extremely widespread and normally doesn’t impacts one’s day-to-day life, for a fifth commonplace youngster who had no thought it did pose some issues.
When a left-handed individual writes, the phrases earlier than within the sentence will get blocked by the hand. This was posing problem in Gurinder to manage up with the category lectures.
The issue was not simply restricted to his writing, Gurinder had troubled with artwork and craft as there was hardly any stationary for left-handed individuals. To Sandeep’s shock, a pair of left-handed scissors would price Rs 1200. They had been shocked to see how there weren’t many firms that manufactured these sorts of merchandise.
Once they contacted the stationary manufactures and sellers, they had been informed that for the reason that ‘left-hand’ market was too small and the merchandise had been manufactured in lesser amount, making the manufacturing and value of sale costly.
The couple quickly realized that there have been not many rivals out there and had a whole lot of potentials since eight % of the Indian inhabitants was estimated to be left-handed. That brings it to round 10 crore individuals.
Taking The Left-Hand Market Ahead
Since Indian producers weren’t very eager and had the identical previous causes like price and sale, Sandeep & Pavitter determined to method worldwide producers and import the completed items from there. They contacted stationery manufacturing firms in France, Germany, and different international locations and confirmed them the potential market in India.
The French firm ‘Maped‘ joined the couple with their enterprise.
It took them a 12 months to behave on the plan and persuade worldwide producers to make merchandise possible to the Indian market. They even persuade home producers to grasp the untapped market. A Pune-based firm making rulers agreed to customise them for left-handed customers, and a Gujarat-based entity agreed to fabricate pencil sharpeners.
Different firms agreed to customise clipboards, blade cutters, and hand-writing books catering to the wants of left-handers. The opposite merchandise embody a pouch, clay, and taking part in playing cards.
‘The Left-Handed Store’
With sheer arduous work and dedication, in 2016, The Left Hand Store was established. So as to lower down on the pricing, Sandeep and Pavitter determined to chop down on revenue margins, logistics, and advertising and marketing.
With their initiative, the Rs 1,200 Maped (French Firm) scissors now price Rs 200, whereas a Rs 600 pencil sharpener prices Rs 28.
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4 years down the road, Sandeep and Pavitter’s startup has achieved 50,000 clients and is rising steadily.
Supply: TheBetterIndia
