Bakery business in India has huge growth potential. Starting a bakery business also requires a modest capital. That is probably one of the reasons behind the galore of home bakers across the Indian bakery industry.
But to succeed in bakery business, especially with limited funds, an entrepreneur not only requires personal involvement, hard work and creativity, but proper training is also needed. Ashok Malkani tries to find the ingredients that make for a good baker.
The Indian bakery industry is going through impressive growth, and more importantly it holds impressive growth potential for the future. The reasons could be abundance of nuclear families in urban India, which is leaving people with less time to cook elaborate dishes, change in eating habits of urban India due to the influences of globalisation, Internet and television, and also the increase in disposable incomes among a sizeable section of urban India during the last decade.
But simply a great growth potential for the Indian bakery industry doesn’t automatically entail a rosy picture for entrepreneurs venturing into the Indian bakery industry. Hard work, innovativeness and knowledge of the intricacies of baking business are prerequisites for an entrepreneur to succeed from his/her stand-alone bakery unit.
“While recognising the growing demand among people wanting to be educated in bakery business, many bakery institutes have boomed in India during the recent years. They are offering a range of courses. These institutes provide various diplomas and certificates to the learners, based on their interest. There are institutes which offer in-depth and intensive learning and sharing of experiences that includes both theoretical knowledge as well as a platform of immense practical opportunities,” declared Chef Sukhdev Singh of Grand Mercure Mysuru .“There are multiple institutions in India and abroad which are specialised in bakery & confectionary. They provide expert training in various nuances of bakery business.They have vocational classes with the best pastry and confectionary Chefs,” disclosed Mohammed Shahid, Pastry Chef from DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pune-Chinchwad.
This story is from the April/May 2017 edition of Bakery Review.
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