Association of Resource Companies for the Hospitality Industry(ARCHI) of India

It was in 1986 that the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) was set up under an Act of Parliament for development and promotion of exports of the agricultural and processed food products.

APEDA’s products under purview are - fruits, vegetables and their products, meat and meat products, poultry and poultry products, dairy products, confectionery, biscuits and bakery, honey, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, cereal, groundnuts, peanuts and walnuts, pickles, papads and chutneys, guar gum horticulture and floriculture products, herbals and medical plants and rice.

APEDA has been a catalyst in the process of the transformation of Indian agriculture from a traditional subsistence-oriented activity to a modern market - oriented commercial practice. The export of APEDA- mandated agro-produce has registered an impressive growth from a level of Rs. 298.58 crore in 1986- 87 to Rs. 14,184 crore in 2003-04.

APEDA promotes exports of agro-food products through its different Schemes for infrastructure development, quality improvement, market development and Research & Development. Apart from providing financial incentives to exporters for improving their own infrastructural facilities like refrigerated transport and setting up of pre-cooling and cold storage facilities, APEDA has also set up cargo handling facilities for perishable products at different airports of the country. They are also helping the State Governments for setting up wholesale market cum flower auction centres like the ones at Bangalore, Mumbai & Noida.

Association of Resource Companies for the Hospitality Industry was formed around a decade before in 1990 to promote cooperation among persons, firms of companies connected with the hospitality trade and industry, producing equipment,
machinery & supplies, and providing services to various hotels and restaurant as manufacturers, importer, exporters, whole sale or retail dealers or as person interested in trade. ARCHI adopts a common policy and collectively taking such steps as may be deemed necessary or expedient to further safeguard the interest of its members, pertaining to the trade and industry.

Today ARCHI is well recognized platform to discuss the possible arrangements, contracts, dealings between member’s interest to regulate and standardize as far as ethical business practice in the hospitality trade. ARCHI arranges, sponsors and support various conferences, exhibitions and lectures alongwith investigation, collection and circulating information and statistics relating to the hospitality trade. It also educate its members and general public by all suitable means, the benefits and utilities of environmental technology from the hygienic point of view. Being a democratic body and having gone into regular elections of its executive committee, it helps in settlement of disputes by conciliation among the members and out side ARCHI.

ARCHI has been active to represent officially the view of its members on any matter either technically or commercially affecting the interest of its member in hospitality trade to the Government of India, Local Government, Chamber of Commerce and any other public or private authority. ARCHI Promotes goods/equipments by arranging meetings and having one to one discussions with various high profile visitors and guests, invited specifically in their periodical meetings. It also circulates among the members the informations on various new upcoming projects on hotels, restaurants and resorts for their business benefits in the printed manner as well as by its own website www.ARCHI.org.