IN TIMBER SINCE 1967 · FOUNDER
Pachan Dhanji Patel
First generation
He started in timber in 1967, more than twenty years before the family opened its own
mill. Give him a girth, a length and a number of logs, and he had the answer before anyone
else could reach for a calculator. And he was never wrong.
He kept the whole trade in his head. Thousands of people across the country, their faces,
the last thing they talked about, all remembered years later as if it were yesterday. A
customer who had bought from him for forty years and someone walking in for the very first
time got exactly the same attention.
He never bent the truth, and he was not afraid of anyone he had to say it to. The one thing
he would change was his own thinking, whenever the world moved on. He bought only the best
wood he could find, and he did not call it a rule. It was simply how he worked.
1992 · PARTNER
Bhadresh Patel
Second generation
In the early years the work started at 6:30 in the morning and went on until 5 the next
morning, with only a couple of hours in between to eat and rest a little. Nothing here came
by luck. It came from that same long day, done again and again until it grew into a business.
He has his father's memory for numbers. Quantities, rates, the week a lot came in, what is
on the saw today, all of it ready without opening a book. Ask him a price he gave you two
years ago, and he will give you the very same price.
He treats every customer like family, not just a sale. That is a big part of why
customers stay for thirty years and then send their sons to us too.
TODAY · PARTNER
Kashyap Patel
Third generation
He learned everything the two before him knew, and added something they never had to:
today the city buys through architects, designers and project offices as much as it buys by
walking into the mill.
A good part of the architect and builder trade in Chennai came to us through him. He can
talk to anyone, the way his grandfather could, and he finishes whatever he starts.
Member, BNI Brios, Chennai.
