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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

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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]

Locations

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It is the largest textile chain in Tamil Nadu.

List of Branches
S.No Branch Opening Date
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

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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

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  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.
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