The Chennai Silks

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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
Parent SCM Group
Website www.thechennaisilks.com
Footnotes /references
[1]

The Chennai Silks is chain of retail textile shops in South India. [2] [3]

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History

Its founder Thiru. A. Kulandaivel Mudaliar, who was living in a village near Avinashi, entered the business in 1962. [4] However its first textile shop was started in Tirupur in 1991 as "Kumaran Silks" later renamed as "The Chennai Silks" in 2001. [5] They also export clothes for chain stores in the United States and Europe including Decathlon, Carrefour and Hanes. [6]

A fire in 2017 destroyed the Chennai Silks building in Chennai. [7]

In November 2025, the company partnered with Tamil Nadu Government and established a garment manufacturing unit worth ₹50 crore near Mannargudi. [8]

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. [9]

References

  1. ↑ "The Chennai Silks: Spinning a success story". Moneycontrol. 26 May 2017.
  2. ↑ "The Chennai Silks to expand". The Hindu Business Line. 3 September 2008. Archived from the original on 19 December 2008. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
  3. ↑ "The Chennai Silks to open showroom in Kerala". The Hindu Business Line. 4 July 2009.
  4. ↑ "Soft Silk".
  5. ↑ "A legacy in every stitch: Inside SCM Textile Spinners' Empire". The Textile Magazine. 8 October 2025.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ "NOC granted for reconstructing Chennai Silks building, despite difficulties in extinguishing fire: CAG". The Hindu. 11 October 2023.
  8. ↑ "Rs 50cr garment unit to be set up near Mannargudi". The Times of India. 14 November 2025.
  9. ↑ "The most expensive silk saree". Guinness World Records. 2008. Archived from the original on 22 March 2015. Retrieved 3 July 2025.


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