Muhammad Sikandar Sultan (born 1955) [1] is a Pakistani entrepreneur and philanthropist who is the founder and now Chairman of Shan Food Industries.
[2] In 1981, Sultan was the first person to recognize and take advantage of the potential of launching an independent company that produced hygienic, first-rate packaged recipe mixes and plain spices.
During this period, he took the traditional Pakistani national heritage of spice mixes and developed it into a food enterprise.
[3] By 2014, according to The Economic Times of India, "Sultan is considered the guru of Pakistan's packaged food industry.
[citation needed] He took Pakistan’s cultural heritage of spice mixes to create Shan Foods.