Amjad Parvaiz

Mr. Amjad Parvaiz - a renowned Canadian/Pakistani businessman is the founder of A1 Cash + Carry, who led this venture to become the largest Foodservice Cash & Carry in Ontario. Its 4 locations, built on 250,000 square feet of area, stock more than 5000 products, besides selling through a convenient E-commerce platform, along with 9 Full-Range categories for Restaurateurs. Mr. Amjad Parvaiz set out on his entrepreneurial journey more than 40 years ago, with a mission to establish something bigger and better than; what the small village of Mian Wali offered. 10-year-old Amjad persuaded his father to let him travel to Lahore alone. As the big city promised a new world of opportunities and quickly transformed his personality, he was inspired for extra-ordinary success and growth in life. Only one year later, the diligent performance of Amjad and his father, soon led to the establishment of one small business after another, to generate wealth and capital for the family. Amjad moved to Canada at the age of 22 and had to do laborious odd-jobs to meet his family needs. Within 5 years, Amjad got the opportunity to set up a business, selling shopping-bags. Despite his lack of knowledge about this industry and its customer-segments, his passion enabled him to quickly learn the dynamics of this trade and become his own boss. He focuses completely on this new venture: A1 Bags & Supplies Inc. His father-in-law’s garage served as the first warehouse for the bags business, which grew rapidly to afford a self-storage unit and shortly after that Amjad signed his first lease of a big warehouse, measuring 1,800 square feet. Over the next 18 years, the business location had to be strategically moved 10 times. In 2011, he availed the opportunity for a One-Stop restaurant-based - cash and carry, in Mississauga. It was the first 50,000 square feet cash and carry in Ontario, with a complete range of frozen-foods, fresh ingredients, Dry-foods, food-packaging and janitorial supplies. Today, the same business has a capacity to serve more than 500 customers, every day. Since then, Amjad has grown as a leader and businessman, because of his father’s memorable words of wisdom, saying: “Always work hard with honesty, integrity and take care of the customers and employees.