Sheetal Agashe, Height, Age, Family, Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts About Sheetal Agashe

• Sheetal Agashe started her career in television and film before moving to business.

• She is the great-niece of Balkrishan Mahadev Gogte who was a famous Indian lawyer, industrialist, philanthropist and educationist.

• In an interview, she said it was her father who encouraged her to join the business.
  

  Sheetal Agashe with her family

• In 1999, Sheetal was appointed as a Director at a firm financed by her father.

• Later in 2000, Sheetal Agashe joined a company as Chief Executive Officer that was founded by her elder brother Mandar Agashe.

• On the 60th birth anniversary of her father, she also wrote an essay “Father’s Daughter” for him in his Festschrift.
  

  Sheetal Agashe’s essay for her father

• In 2013 Sheetal Agashe was appointed as the managing director of Brihans Natural Products Ltd.
  

  Sheetal Agashe as MD of Brihans Natural Products Ltd

• She was the first woman in her family to lead the business.

• In an interview, she also shared that she was the only woman in Brihans Natural Products Ltd. when she was appointed there as managing director.
  

  Sheetal Agashe talked about the challenges she faced during the early days of her business career

• In 2016 Sheetal Agashe started reconstructing her company’s product range and focused on adding aloe vera to every product.
  

  Newspaper article about Sheetal Agashe’s success in her father’s business

• She has received various awards, including the Times Visionary Award, Femina Pune’s Most Powerful Award, and two Times Women of the Year Awards.
  

  Sheetal Agashe taking Pune’s Most Powerful Woman 2018 award from Huma Qureshi

• In 2019 Sheetal Agashe shifted their company’s products production locally and started getting raw materials like Aloe vera, Amla and Hibiscus from the draught-prone district Solapur, Maharastra.

• In August 2021, Sheetal Agashe was one of the women in business featured on the cover of Feminas Independence Day issue of their Pune edition.

• As she belongs to the Bollywood background she easily gets celebrity endorsements and film sponsorship for her company’s products.

• In July 2021, Femina magazine also praised Sheetal Agashe and her company for raising awareness among Indian consumers on the benefits of Ayurveda.

• She also participated in award shows as an award presenter to celebrities.
  

  Sheetal Agashe presenting the award to Dia Mirza

• Sheetal Agashe is not very active on any of her social media handles, she keeps her personal life private.

• Sheetal Agashe is still single.