Portrait of Madhusudan Agarwal

Rank #2395

Madhusudan Agarwal

Net worth $1.7B

Indian sweets and snacks · India

Born
Apr 03, 1956
Age
70
Source
Indian sweets and snacks
Residence
New Dehli
Citizenship
India
Marital status
Children
0
Education

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Madhusudan Agarwal, who was running Delhi-based Haldiram Foods, merged his company with his cousin's Nagpur-based Haldiram Foods International in 2023 to create Haldiram Snacks Food.
  • A consortium of investors led by Singapore's Temasek, acquired a 20% stake in the merged company in 2025 at an estimated valuation of $10 billion.
  • Agarwal is the grandson of founder Ganga Bishan Agarwal, who started selling snacks from a tiny shop in Bikaner in Rajasthan in 1937 and went on to create the popular Haldiram brand.
  • The business was eventually divided among the patriarch's grandsons into three separate companies, operating out of Nagpur, Delhi and Kolkata.