peti
origin · the whole story

we named ours after the crate.

peti is the urdu word for the wooden box mangoes ride in from the orchard to the market.

and that's the whole story yaar.

the peti · the actual crate

a wooden box.
twelve mangoes deep.

A peti is the wooden slat crate every Pakistani orchard packs into. Pine slats nailed at the corners. Newspaper or dry straw lining the bottom. Twelve mangoes deep, sometimes more. It rides from Multan and Sindh orchards into Karachi and Lahore, then onto the trucks and the boats and the planes that carry the season out into the world.

The crate survived everything. Tetra Pak came. Vacuum bags came. Palletized cardboard came. Mangoes still ride in petis. We took the name back from the orchard trucking layer and put it on the diaspora's shelf, where it belongs.

same crate. new shelf.

the market · say it loud

$1.2 billion in dried mango. zero pakistani brands.

Philippine. Thai. Mexican. All on the shelf at Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, every Karachi airport gift shop. Pakistan grows the world's best mangoes. There is not a single global Pakistani-mango brand on a shelf anywhere in the world. We are fixing that, one cultivar at a time.

and yes, we know about the indians yaar — different cultivars, different season, also good.

the shelf today
  • philippine
  • thai
  • mexican
  • pakistani — until now
why now · three reasons

the season
finally lines up.

reason 1

diaspora
demand.

There are 8 million Pakistani-diaspora households in the US, UK, Canada, Gulf. None of them grew up on Mexican Ataulfos.

we know what we miss.

reason 2

supply
ready.

The export-grade Pakistani mango lane has been running for 40 years. The packaging and brand layer is the gap.

the orchards are waiting.

reason 3

family
already in it.

Rayhan chachu has been moving Pakistani goods through Karachi for 30 years (BNC Tents, Austin Anderson Solutions). The supply chain doesn't need a stranger.

chachu knows the orchards.

the crew · two of us

this is a
family thing.

toronto side

humza.

Built peti in Toronto. Designed the brand. Writes the copy. Talks to the customer.

that's me yaar.

karachi side

rayhan
chachu.

Runs Pakistan-side ops out of Karachi. Knows the orchards. Knows the processors. Family.

30 years moving real goods.

this is a family thing. don't @ us.

that's the story.

now go meet the cultivars.

first 500 lock founder pricing for life.

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