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Phuntshok Dechen Yangchen

  • Round: Semi-Finalist
  • Country: Bhutan
  • Company: Guram
  • Region: South Asia

Phuntshok started Guram, a candy making business, to help in reducing the amount of candies imported by Bhutan and to give the farmers of Bhutan a platform of understanding the benefits of different herbs and spices by incorporating them into candies. The focus of Guram is to use Bhutanese ingredients only in order to create delicious mouth-watering candies which can replace imported candies and to be a company which helps the community around it through social work as well. In the future, Guram aims to be one of the biggest candy manufacturing business in the country and replace all imports.