(1937 – 1967) Operating as a small workshop, my childhood memories were formed at a small sugar-splitting workshop in one of the oldest streets in Tabriz. My father would change the white sugar form into molded sugar at that workshop, and I would have never predicted that one day this small workshop would become one of the biggest production complexes in the Middle-East. Sometime later products of this small workshop were produced with the local old brand named "Shekar-Panier" a traditional brand name of sweets, which has had a lot of fans for some time nationwide. Our products soon won the hearts & minds of many people and we showed interest in producing more other varieties of products.
(1967 – 1974) The first steps that were taken in the industrialization direction, were during these years when we bought a bigger workshop at Elqoli Road in Tabriz and started up our first automatic line of producing candy and toffee. Since 1972 the eye-catching expansion of this workshop started and within a short period, our production lines were multi-doubled. We now could make an effort to open up a shop in one of the streets in Tabriz and sell our own products. (1974 – 1983) It was the birth of the Nejati Industrial Group. Having achieved the people's welcoming message to our products, we indeed attempted to establish a big factory to produce different kinds of sweets and chocolates patented by the name of Nejati Industrial Group and we bought the presently existing land of the factory. After one year two automatic production lines of biscuits and wafers were installed and started up and the first group of our productions in biscuits and wafers was made with Anata brand name. At that time, both the sugar-splitting & candy workshop and the toffees, biscuits and wafers-producing factories were actively in operation. Because of the unprecedented acceptance of Anata productions in the markets, in a short time, more other sales branches were opened and it was only after three years of running automatic production lines of biscuits and wafers that exports to the neighboring countries started.
