Lower Parel and Parel, Mumbai

Raymond, founded in 1925 as the Raymond Woollen Mill at Thane and built by the Singhania family, is the largest maker of worsted suiting fabric in the world, headquartered at Plantation House, Pokhran Road, Thane; its Th

Bombay Dyeing, founded in 1879 by Nowrosjee Wadia, is the flagship of the Wadia group and the name most Mumbaikars associate with the mill era; its mills at Lower Parel and Worli are now Island City Centre and Axis House

Century Textiles, founded in 1897 and the B.

Mafatlal Industries, the textile company of the Mafatlal family founded in 1905, once ran mills across the city and now makes fabrics, uniforms and school-wear at Nadiad, headquartered at Mafatlal House, H.

Morarjee Textiles, the Piramal family’s mill company descended from Morarjee Goculdas Spinning and Weaving of 1871, ran the Morarjee Mills at Parel, now Peninsula Corporate Park; its fine cotton fabrics are made at Butib

Alok Industries, founded in 1986 and once the largest integrated textile company in India, went through insolvency and was bought by Reliance Industries and JM Financial in 2020; headquartered at Peninsula Tower, Lower P

Welspun Living, the former Welspun India founded in 1985 by B.

Grasim, the Aditya Birla flagship founded in 1947 as Gwalior Rayon, is the largest maker of viscose staple fibre in the world (Birla Cellulose) and the holding company of UltraTech Cement and Aditya Birla Capital; its re

Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail, headquartered at Piramal Agastya Corporate Park, Kurla, is the largest branded-apparel company in India with Louis Philippe, Van Heusen, Allen Solly, Peter England, Pantaloons and the Sab

Trent, the Tata group’s retail company headquartered at Bombay House, Fort, runs Westside, Zudio and Star Bazaar; Zudio’s value fashion made Trent one of the fastest-growing retailers in the country in the 2020s, and it

Shoppers Stop, founded in 1991 by the Raheja group with its first store at Andheri, is the oldest department store chain in India, headquartered at Umang Tower, Malad West, and listed on the exchanges.

Page Industries, the Bengaluru licensee of Jockey and Speedo for India, is listed on the Mumbai exchanges and one of the most valued apparel companies in the country.

The Textiles Committee, set up by Act of Parliament in 1963 under the Ministry of Textiles, is headquartered at P.

SRTEPC, set up in 1954 and headquartered at Resham Bhavan, Veer Nariman Road, Churchgate, is the export promotion council for man-made fibre textiles — polyester, viscose, nylon fabrics and yarns — representing the expor

Texprocil, set up in 1954 and headquartered at Engineering Centre, 9 Mathew Road, Opera House, is the export promotion council for cotton textiles — yarn, fabric and made-ups — the largest segment of India’s textile expo

BTRA, set up in 1954 at Ghatkopar as the industry’s research association, tests fibres, yarns and fabrics, runs training for mills and powerloom units, and does research in textile processing.

Unifro Textiles, founded in 1988, makes school and corporate uniforms in Mumbai.

Gopesh Uniforms, since 2000, makes school, industrial and corporate uniforms in Mumbai.

Uniform Weavers at Sewri makes uniforms for corporates, hotels and hospitals.

HSD Uniforms makes corporate and industrial uniforms in Mumbai.

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Textile Art Machinery on Sahar Road, Andheri, deals in textile machinery.

Indo Count Industries, founded in 1988 and listed on the exchanges, is headquartered at Nariman Point and is among the largest bed-linen exporters in the world from its Kolhapur plants.

Faze Three, founded in 1985 and listed on the exchanges, is headquartered at Nariman Point and exports bath mats, rugs, cushions and curtains from its plants at Silvassa, Dapada and Panipat.

D’Decor, founded in 1999 by the Arora family, is the largest furnishing fabric maker in India, headquartered in Mumbai with its plant at Tarapur, selling curtains and upholstery fabric through dealers nationwide.

Eurotrade Textiles is a Mumbai home-textile exporter of bed, table and kitchen linen and terry towels.

Masuraj Garments at Lower Parel has made school uniforms for over twenty-five years.

Puru Lifestyle is a Mumbai maker of school and institutional uniforms.

Batliboi, founded in 1892 and listed on the exchanges, is headquartered at Fort and is one of the oldest machinery companies in India, dealing in textile machinery, machine tools and air engineering.

Peass Industrial Engineers, founded in 1946 and headquartered in Mumbai with its works at Navsari, makes yarn winding and doubling machinery for the spinning mills.

Voltas, the Tata company headquartered at Chinchpokli, has sold textile machinery to Indian mills through its textile machinery division since the 1950s, representing LMW and other makers.

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Portico New York, the brand of Creative Portico of Mumbai, sells bedspreads, duvet covers and bath linen through its own stores and department stores across India.

Soma, the Jaipur block-print house, has its Mumbai shop at Colaba selling hand block printed bedspreads, quilts and home textiles.

Jagdish Store, the Delhi furnishing house, has its Mumbai showroom at Lower Parel for furnishings, bed covers and made-to-measure drapes.