The Chennai Silks

The Chennai Silks Groups
Company typePrivate
IndustryRetail
Founded1962
FounderThiru. A. Kulandaivel Mudaliar
Area served
Southern India
Key people
  • TK Chandiran
  • K Sivalingam
  • K Manickam
  • P K Arumugam
  • K Nandhagopal
  • K Vinayagam
  • K Paramasivam
ProductsTextiles, ready-made, silk sarees
Number of employees
50000
ParentSCM Group
Websitewww.thechennaisilks.com

The Chennai Silks is chain of retail textile shops in South India.[1][2]

History

Its founder Thiru. A. Kulandaivel Mudaliar, who was living in a village near Avinashi, entered the business in 1962.[3] However its first textile shop was started in Tirupur in 1991 as "Kumaran Silks" later renamed as "The Chennai Silks" in 2001. They also export clothes for chain stores in the United States and Europe including Decathlon, Carrefour and Hanes.[4]

Records

In 2007, a Guinness world record - "most expensive silk saree" was created by Chennai Silks.[5] It was worth about $100,021; £50,679 (worth ₹41 lakhs) and features reproductions of 11 famous paintings by the Indian artist Raja Ravi Varma. The main image is a reproduction of Raja Ravi Varma's Galaxy of Musicians. It took around 4760 hours to complete the design.

References

  1. ^ "The Chennai Silks to expand". The Hindu Business Line. 3 September 2008. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
  2. ^ "The Chennai Silks to open showroom in Kerala". The Hindu Business Line. 4 July 2009.
  3. ^ "Soft Silk".
  4. ^ Venkatesan, Radha (18 December 2008). "Tirupur feels the meltdown pinch". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 13 September 2011. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
  5. ^ "The most expensive silk saree". 2008. Archived from the original on 22 March 2015.