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L-R: Garry, Robby and Gagan Sawhney
LIVING THE AUSTRALIAN DREAM Garry, Robby, and Gagan Sawhney are the brothers behind IPL Retail Group, which manufactures, imports, and distributes to more than 1,500 customers throughout Australia. They were born in India and moved to Australia with bold ambitions. This is their story…
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arry, Robby, and Gagan Sawhney, are three young and passionate brothers born into a close-knit family in the small city of Ambala, India.
While growing up, they knew they didn’t want to ‘work for the man’ and instead, they dreamed of overseeing their own destiny and career. Robby and Garry are both engineers and Gagan is qualified in commerce and IT, but the brothers say that their ambitions were always too high and their dreams too big for their hometown of Ambala. Robby started his Australian dream in 1999. He came with the purpose of finding his place in the world and becoming somebody who could set an example and be an inspiration for others back home. He has always been very active in sports and most of his time spent away from work is either with family or playing cricket with his mates. 6 June/July 2022 | C&I | www.c-store.com.au
Robby is married and has two beautiful and intelligent children. He started his life in Australia from scratch and with very little experience, and making it to where he is today has taken a lot of hard work and patience. Today, Robby can proudly say that he has more than 15 years of experience in the retail industry. He has two pieces of advice that he has carried through from his early days of managing several gas stations, as it’s from there that he learned his business skills. His first piece of advice is to “keep things simple” and the second is that “it’s all about the customers”. He says that you should seek to find good customers, invest in them, learn from them, and look after them. “I look after the marketing department in IPL Group and IPL Retail, and in recent periods of growth over the past few years I have been driven by both meeting the ever changing needs of consumers, and by driving existing and new business harder,” says Robby.
