Top 10 Holi Business Ideas for 2025

One of the most awaited and significant Hindu festivals is Holi. This cultural festival has a very deep importance for every Hindu in the world. This festival which happens once a year, signifies the celebration of a victory of good over evil. Looking at this auspicious festival, so many people in our country come up with different business ideas to serve customers. 

Not only it is an amazing celebration in our country but, it is one of the best times to earn profit by opening unique business services and products. If you are willing to take advantage of this situation then we will give you some of the best top 10 Holi business ideas for 2024. 

Holi Colour Business 

Holi is known to be the ‘festival of colours’. Celebrations of this festival in our country cannot happen without spraying, throwing, or applying holi colours to our closed ones. But, we highly recommend readers to manufacture and sell organic Holi clours only to customers. While conducting such business, we must not forget to keep our products eco-friendly and human skin-friendly as well. 

 

To attract more customers, the best way is to sell organic colours. If you know how to make homemade colours then that would be an added advantage for your business. For example, if you are willing to make organic green colour then you can easily use spinach, corn starch/arrowroot, and essential oils. If you are willing to open this business in a small scale then you can easily open it within Rs 1 lakh. 

Event organizer 

Youth of our country loves going to Holi parties because of its unmatched adventure and non-stop music.

You can easily host various Holi events in your local area along with some of your family members or friends. This is one of the best ideas to earn enormous profit from such an auspicious festival in our country. 

In recent years, we have seen an enormous growth in Holi parties and celebrations. You can provide almost every facility to people who visits your event. Starting from food and entertainment to relaxation at the end.

You can easily charge a heavy entry fee from people and can keep offers to attract many customers as possible.

Sweet Shop 

We Indians know the demand for sweets when any festivals knocks on our door. Almost every household in our country celebrates Holi by gifting sweets to their relatives and friends.

This is where you can come in and start a sweet business right in front of your doorstep. Interestingly, to set up a sweet shop for 1-2 days you do not need any license. 

In this business you just need all the raw materials, required utensils, and a tent so that you can setup your sweet shop and sell to customers. If you happen to require any sort of furniture then you can easily rent them and start this amazing business. 

Worship Materials 

During Holi we mostly worship Lord Vishnu, Lord Krishna, and Goddess Radha. In this festival, families gather around for festive meals after the public celebration or worship is completed.

So, the demand for worship materials will be at an all-time high during Holi and many people will require those materials at any cost during Holi. 

This is where you can come in and provide those materials to customers at a good rate and earn good profit from it. This business can easily be opened in your home, near your apartment, school, or any populated area as it will not require much space.

To make your work easier and attract more customers, you can even add a home delivery option for customers who are ordering in bulk. 

Holi toys 

Holi is no fun without playing with Holi toys. Not only the youth of our country but, the elders have lots of of fun playing with Holi toys.

We have a large number of people playing with Holi toys in our country and as a result, there is always an increase in demand for such products during the Holi festival. 

You can easily source all the Holi toys from various manufacturers at a very low rate and can sell them at a good margin to end customers. Different types of Holi toys are sold in different prices and each will have different profit margins.

If you are creative enough then you could make some necessary Holi toys yourself which will save a lot of additional cost.

Holi-related wearables 

One of the best and highly profitable business ideas during Holi is selling Holi-related wearables. In this business, you can easily sell t-shirts which are Holi-designed, caps, trousers (if possible), wristbands, and many more. A very popular product would be a T-shirt.

You can easily get all the raw materials of different sizes from various wholesalers and print on them. The more creative t-shirts or any other wearables you make the more customers will be attracted to your business.

If you are willing to open on a small scale then you can easily focus on only one product during the Holi festival.

Lassi Shop 

Opening a lassi shop is one of the easiest businesses that you can open during Holi. We know Holi starts at the beginning of summer so people while enjoying outside will need to re-energize themselves by getting themselves a healthy drink. This is where you need to provide lassi to those targeted customers. 

To open a Lassi shop, you will get everything from the nearest kirana or grocery store only. Even if you do not know how to make lassi at home you could source it from somewhere else or learn from the internet.

Other than offering the simple and traditional lassi, you can offer four to five different flavours of lassi to customers. I am sure this will attract a good number of people to your location. This business can easily be opened in any public area and you might not need any license.

Holi Gift Hampers 

Celebrating Holi by sending and receiving Holi gift hampers has become a very popular event in our country.

These hampers include different types of Holi items, delicacies, and many more items. Making and selling such gift hampers of different sizes to customers could be one of the best businesses in India. 

You can easily sell them in offline stores or on various online platforms. One of the best ways to sell them immediately is by starting with your friends and relatives. For every different-sized gift hampers, you can receive different profit margins. 

Cleaning services 

After Holi celebrations are over mostly during events, the venue surely needs some cleaning. You can easily get a contract from the organizer of those events and ask them to give the cleaning department to you.

After the events are over you can easily provide your service to these events and can earn a good profit margin at the end. 

This is becasue, the stains of colours do not go very easily if organic colours are not used. So, removing colour stains from a particular piece of cloth or on any surface is quite difficult. You can easily use chemicals to remove those and can charge good money from the event organiser.

Decorative business 

Whether it’s a public event or a private event, decorations are a must during Holi. So, the demand for it is always high during this festival and this opens up a business option for many in our country.  Now, there are so many decorative items that you require during this festival. 

This is where you can open a business and serve those customers at a very good rate. It will help a lot of customers who are planning to organize an event.

Other than offering decorative items to customers, you can easily offer installation services as well where one of your people will visit the customer’s place and set everything up with the decoratives. You can easily charge extra for this service to customers and it will ultimately increase your profit margin.