Jodia Bazaar

Jodia Bazaar جوڑیا بازار
Bazaar
Country	Pakistan
Province	Sindh
City	Karachi

Jodia Bazaar (Urdu: جوڑیا بازار) is a bazaar located in Karachi, Pakistan.^[1] The bazaar comprises a wholesale market for commodities including flour, wheat, rice, sugar, and legumes.^[2][3]

Jodia Bazaar is also known as the main market of hand fans in Pakistan.^[4]

History

Jodia Bazaar was established in 1947 after independence.^[5]

In 2014, it was estimated that the market worth of daily trading is between Rs. 3 and Rs. 5 billion.^[2]

Shops

Some of the largest sugar merchants of Pakistan are based in Jodia Bazaar.^[6] Some of the shops are owned by emigrants from India.^[7]

Tapal Tea, one of the largest Tea company in Pakistan, started its business with a small shop in Jodia Bazaar.^[8]

Jodiabaazar.com is another company that started in Jodia Baazar. It is an online marketplace aggregating all the merchants in the baazar. ^[9]

Jodia Baazar hit a new trend through YB Wires in 2024. A local hardware trading shop turned into a brand, a corporate with a monitored system where people do business and work on progress instead of working on security of their own goods and money. Some people realized and copied the model of YB Wires.

References

1. "تجارتی علاقہ جوڑیا بازار". Daily Jang.
2. "Jodia Bazaar remains closed". Dawn. December 17, 2014.
3. "District South: a remnant of the British Raj's Kurrachee". The Express Tribune. July 10, 2018.
4. "Hand fans become a common sight". The Express Tribune. July 18, 2022.
5. "Jodia Bazaar: A peek into growing undocumented trade". The Express Tribune. February 8, 2015.
6. "پاکستان میں چینی کی قیمت پر سٹہ کیسے اور کہاں کھیلا جاتا ہے؟" – via BBC Urdu.
7. "'پاکستان جانے کے بجائے چلتی ٹرین سے کود گئے' – DW – 14.08.2022". DW News.
8. ترمذی, فاروق (July 12, 2021). "کیا ٹپال چائے ایک ارب ڈالر مالیت کی کمپنی بن چکی ہے ؟". Pakistan Today.
9. Mohsin, Umair (December 2, 2022). "Jodiabaazar.com seeks to popularize traditional market through digital & ecommerce services". Medium.