Our Story
Get to know our roots and follow our story below…
The Late Mohammed Hafiz
Alamgeer Foods Co-Founder
Haji Ghalib
Haji Mohammed Aurungzeb
Alamgeer Foods Co-Founder
1969
Humble Beginnings
Haji Ghaleb leaves his home village of Gujar Khan, Pakistan, and travels to England in search of a better quality of life for his family. He travels first to the north of England before settling in Birmingham.
1972
First Business Venture
The expanding Pakistani community in inner-Birmingham means that the scarcity of halal meat is fast becoming a problem. Haji Ghalib responds to the needs of the local community by buying chickens from farms in surrounding rural areas and performing the Islamic slaughter ritual, he then supplies this halal meat to the local community.
1979
Alamgeer Food Store
Haji Ghaleb puts aside an amount of money over the years and eventually opens a store on the corner of Marlborough Road, Small Heath, Birmingham. He entrusts his two sons to run the store. Alamgeer Food Store starts to supply the local community with a spice mix known as Bassar. For the first time, the local community in Small Heath get a real taste of home and begin to associate the Alamgeer name with quality authentic imported spices.
1997
Alamgeer Foods Ltd
Struggling to find space in his Birmingham shop due to the sheer amount of imported spices, Haji Aurungzeb moves his stock to a warehouse in Darlaston, Walsall. The name of Alamgeer officially becomes incorporated into Alamgeer Foods Limited. At this time, we increase the number of sales representatives who travel up and down the country taking orders from businesses and we diversify our lines of products to include drinks, pulses, Asian cosmetics, teas, and various other Asian products.
2020
A New Beginning
Alamgeer Foods moves into a new 40,000 square-foot warehouse. We now employ more than 30 staff members, and hope to take on more staff in the coming months as we settle into our new headquarters. We supply close to 1,800 businesses all over the UK and in the Republic of Ireland. Our aim for the coming years is to take Alamgeer Foods to new heights and to expand the supply of Asian spices into continental Europe.