The Chennai Silks
The Chennai Silks is chain of retail textile shops in South India.[1][2]
Type | Private |
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Industry | Retail |
Founded | 1962 |
Founder | Thiru. A. Kulandaivel Mudaliar |
Area served | Southern India |
Key people |
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Products | Textiles, ready-made, silk sarees |
Number of employees | 50000 |
Parent | SCM Group |
Website | www |
History
Its founder Thiru. A. Kulandaivel Mudaliar, who was lived 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' with his hard work, later renamed as 'The Chennai Silks' in 2001. They also export clothes for chain stores in the United States and Europe including Decathlon, Carrefour, TESCO and Hanes.[4]
Locations
It is the largest textile chain in Tamil Nadu.
S.No | Branch | Opening Date |
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1 | Tiruppur | 12-Sep-1991 |
2 | Coimbatore 1-Oppanakara Street | 16-Sep-1996 |
3 | Erode | 01-Sep-2000 |
4 | Chennai | 21-Aug-2001 |
5 | Thiruchirappalli | 23-Oct-2004 |
6 | Coimbatore 2-Oppanakara Street | 24-Oct-2007 |
7 | Coimbatore 3-Cross Cut Road | 04-Sep-2008 |
8 | Karur | 04-Sep-2008 |
9 | Kochi | 06-July-2009 |
10 | Tirunelveli | 01-Sep-2011 |
11 | Vellore | 30-Sep-2013 |
12 | Salem | 14-Oct-2013 |
13 | Villupuram | 27-Aug-2014 |
14 | Hosur | 12-Sep-2014 |
15 | Velachery | 25-Sep-2014 |
16 | Madurai | 16-Sep-2015 |
17 | Chittoor | 30-Sep-2016 |
18 | Thoothukudi | 23-Aug-2017 |
19 | Kumbakonam | 24-Aug-2017 |
20 | Dindigul | 01-Oct-2017 |
21 | Thiruvallur | 04-Sep-2017 |
22 | Hyderabad | 15-Sep-2017 |
23 | Thanjavur | 21-Jan-2018 |
24 | Chrompet | 19-Feb-2018 |
25 | Mehdipatnam | 03-Jun-2018 |
26 | Puducherry | 23-Oct-2020 |
27 | Pudukkottai | 02-Aug-2021 |
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 Varma's famous 'Galaxy of Musicians'. It took around 4760 man-hours to complete the design.
References
- "The Chennai Silks to expand". The Hindu Business Line. 3 September 2008. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
- "The Chennai Silks to open showroom in Kerala". The Hindu Business Line. 4 July 2009.
- "SCM Group - About SCM".
- 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.
- "The most expensive silk saree". 2008.