Since the factory has started, it has not changed since then. The name of the symbol is Parle G. The girl's photo has not changed yet.

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Parle-G: The journey of a biscuit for masses
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Text: Shephali Bhatt, ET Bureau


It has saved many hungry souls, old and young, at noon or midnight. It has been a loyal companion to cutting chai for decades.

Whether you are looking for a nutritional substitute or just something to munch after a long day of work or study, Parle-G is a brand built for the masses.

And with 70% market share one can't argue with that.

ET presents the journey of a biscuit:

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Text: Shephali Bhatt, ET Bureau


It has saved many hungry souls, old and young, at noon or midnight. It has been a loyal companion to cutting chai for decades.

Whether you are looking for a nutritional substitute or just something to munch after a long day of work or study, Parle-G is a brand built for the masses.

And with 70% market share one can't argue with that.

ET presents the journey of a biscuit:

Who's that girl?
Who's that girl?
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She is Neeru Deshpandey from Nagpur, if you believe a post on Quora where a user has raised a question on the identity of the evergreen Parle-G kid.

The anonymous post adds that the picture was clicked when she was 4 years 3 months old. Then there's another source, Parle-G's Wikipedia page that comes up with the name 'Gunjan Gundaniya'.

Finally, Mayank Shah, group product manager at Parle Products, puts all the folklore to rest and reveals: It's actually an illustration by an Everest creative back in the 60s.

People have created their own stories about the kid being a girl and assigned names of their own accord and others just caught onto them, a lethal combination of rumour and grapevine.

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