The Founders & Chairperson

The Founders

Mr. Kiritvadan A. Taktawala

Founder

Mrs. Bina Taktawala

Founder

Life is a beautiful journey to be lived again and again !

The quest to introduce India to the concept of sophisticated surgical dressings and wound management products began as early as the year 1970 when the founders, Mr. Kiritvadan A. Taktawala & Mrs. Bina Taktawala joined hands to process raw gauze cloth using a hand full of Of skilled labourers .

They designed innovative sizes and types of wound dressing material keeping in mind their usage and began supply to large government & civil hospitals in Ahmedabad.

Their hard work was well appreciated and soon they started suppling to many hospitals across india. It was the story of two birds coming together gathering twigs and making a strong nest, as a result of which. Softouch Hygiene products Ltd was born in the year 1985.

Fifteen years of relentless hard work, research, market & customer feed back from all renowned doctors across India led to the right type of product development of a varied and vast variety along with procurement of the required machineries from Germany and Japan to give the most advanced wound management products to a young and independent nation which had a long way to go. Mr. Kirit A. Taktawala was a visionary who was forthright, dynamic and futuristic in his thinking.

He developed products out of which some of them till date are still holding a monopolistic market. His education in Germany, made him realise that nothing but the best technology for personal hygiene products were needed in a country that was still budding .

Mrs. Bina Taktawala his better half stood like a pillar and actively held his hands tight while he was walking this path that took years of extra ordinary effort to finally give birth to Softouch and make it earn the name and fame of “ Softouch - A trusted name in hygiene”

They continue their journey in the heavenly abode, smiling thankfully from up above at their valuable customers, piers, members of the entire Softouch family and all those who supported them in their journey of accomplishment . Their only expectation from us now being to keep their legacy alive by serving the nation as well as all the countries with wound management products of exemplary standards, ensuring a common feeling among all human beings-of being of happiness on account of good health that - Life is a beautiful journey to be lived again and again!

The Managing Director & Chairperson

Ms. Sunali Taktawala

Managing Director

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep."

Carrying forward the Legacy of her parents and taking their creation to higher skies is a promise, The Chairman & Managing Director, Sunali Taktawala, the only child of the founders, endeavours to fulfill with utmost commitment .

Choosing to soar the skies at an early age of 16, she decided to begin the first step towards fulfilling her dream of becoming an Airline pilot someday. She joined the Air Wing NCC alongside her bachelors Degree Programme in Commerce at thr St. Joseph’s College of Commerce, Bangalore.

NCC gave her the wings to soar the skies in its purest form. She excelled in Gliding & worked hard relentlessly to prove to her parents that although hailing from a family of industrialists she had it all in her to be a successful pilot.

She was chosen to represent Karnataka in the All India Glider Pilots competition and became the proud Gold Medal recipient from the Hon’ble Prime Mr. Shri .P-V.Narashimha Rao in January 1993, by attaining the 1st position in the country.

There was no looking back now. Her father Mr. Taktawala broke all boundaries to support his only daughter to fulfil her dream. Sunali went to SanDiego, California for her commercial pilot licence course after Air wing NCC proudly sponsored the Private pilot licence course in Bangalore for their gold medalist.

Sunali became a qualified commercial pilot in the year 1995. She worked in smaller airlines till the year 1999 in an era where airline industry in India was yet budding. In the year 2000 she joined Jet Airways India Ltd.

She has flown a series of aircrafts and has a vast experience on the New generation Boeing 737s, an aircraft she flew for 15 years and attained her captaincy on. Her long and soulful journey as an Airline Pilot for 20 years and a Senior Commander in Jet Airway enriched her as a person and prepared her for a new role in her family business.

Throughout her life she did the dual role of being an airline pilot along side actively managing her family business. The dual duty demanded long working hours but that did not deter her. She gave her best to both. She is as passionate about her business as she is for her flying.She was trained by her father from an early age for a role she would be undertaking in the future.

Before taking over the Managing Directorship of Softouch she was heading sales & marketing and product designing of the company. Being closely involved in the company affairs in the capacity of a director of Softouch since the last three decades, in the year 2013 she took over the Managing Directorship of the Company upon the demise of her parents. She finally decided to fulfil her promise to her late parents by dedicating herself to Softouch completely.

Her resolve to make Softouch a Niche brand in the global and dynamic market has taken wings. An entire new range of product portfolio for health care and life essential products has been added to an already existing list of over fifty well established products.

In the last six months Softouch has joined hands with the nation to help fight the COVID 19 Pandemic by introducing a wide range of COVID Care and life essential hygiene products and is supplying to all major government hospitals, private institutions, corporate houses, banks, airlines, charitable organisations etc.

Ms. Sunali Taktawala is commited to keeping her parents legacy alive and taking it forward by maintaining & growing the name - “Softouch - A trusted name in hygiene”