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| Company 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 |
The Chennai Silks is chain of retail textile shops in South India. [1] [2]
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]
It is the largest textile chain in Tamil Nadu.
| 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 |
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