The Chennai Silks

The Chennai Silks Groups

Company type	Private
Industry	Retail
Founded	1962
Founder	Thiru. A. Kulandaivel Mudaliar
Area served	Southern India
Key people	TK Chandiran K Sivalingam K Manickam P K Arumugam K Nandhagopal K Vinayagam K Paramasivam
Products	Textiles, ready-made, silk sarees
Number of employees	50000
Parent	SCM Group
Website	www.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.^{[ citation needed ]} 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. 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. ^[5]

References

1. "The Chennai Silks to expand". The Hindu Business Line. 3 September 2008. Archived from the original on 19 December 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". Guinness World Records. 2008. Archived from the original on 22 March 2015. Retrieved 3 July 2025.

External links

• Official website