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Cotton and Yarn Trading in Mumbai

The raw material trade behind the mills.

Cotton and Yarn Trading in Mumbai

Mumbai was built on cotton. The mills that gave the city its shape are mostly gone, but the trade they created remains — the cloth markets at Kalbadevi, the branded apparel companies headquartered here, and the powerloom and warehousing belt at Bhiwandi that feeds them.

Named companies

Named companies

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Alok Industries Limited

Lower Parel and Parel

Textiles

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

Grasim Industries Limited

Lower Parel and Parel

Fibre and diversified

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

Narandas Rajaram & Co.

Mulji Jetha Market

Cloth merchant

Narandas Rajaram, founded in 1894, is one of the oldest cloth merchants of Mulji Jetha Market, the wholesale cloth market of Kalbadevi built in 1870s by the merchant Mulji Jetha; the firm was agent for the mills and deal

Trade association

The Cut Piece Cloth Association represents the traders of Mangaldas Market and the cut-piece cloth trade of the city, the merchants who buy mill production in bulk and sell fabric by the metre.

Ghella Dayal & Co.

Mulji Jetha Market

Mulls and grey cloth

Ghella Dayal & Co., in Mulji Jetha Market since 1850, is among the oldest cloth firms of the city, dealing in mulls and grey cotton cloth by the bale.

Cotton and Yarn Trading across the city

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