­Mahavir Trading Co (MTC) promoted by Mr. Nilesh Savla and his wife, Mrs. Bharti Savla commenced its operations with the establishment in 2011. The firm is engaged in the trading of Cashews (95 percent) and balance is Almonds and Pistachio. Cashews for trading are procured from Mahavir Cashew Industries Sister concern (35- 40 percent) and the balance is procured from all over India. The customers are primarily the wholesalers, retailers and sweet manufacturers spread across Maharashtra and Gujarat. MTC supplies cashews in the Domestic market via network of Brokers with Dmart being its major customer.

­­The group promoted by Mr. Nilesh Savla and his wife, Mrs. Bharti Savla, later on in February, 2016 Mahavir Cashew Industries was set up as a partnership firm headed by Mr. Nilesh Savla, Mrs. Bharti Savla and Mr. Piyush Gogri. The firm is engaged in the processing of cashew kernels. Its partners Mr. Nilesh Savla and Mrs. Bharti Savla have been in the business of trading cashews since the past 7 years. The firm has two units located at Sawantwadi in Sindhudurg (Maharashtra) and PO Halkarni at Chandgarh District in Kolhapur (Maharashtra). The total capacity of both the units is 12 tons of raw nuts per day and 3.5 tons of finished cashew nuts per day.

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