The Grand Sweets and Snacks was founded in 1982 by Sri. G. Natarajan, a first-generation entrepreneur, who after a series of business setbacks, started this food business in a small way at Gandhi Nagar, Adyar in Chennai by capitalizing his wife Bangaru amma’s culinary skill dipping into her personal recipes and started making and selling the generic snacks traditionally made by the old ladies of the house – the sweet Mysore pauk and ladoo as well as the crunchy, savoury ‘mixture’.