Bed, bath and furnishing textiles, much of it for export.
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.
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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
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Century Textiles, founded in 1897 and the B.
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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
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Welspun Living, the former Welspun India founded in 1985 by B.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Eurotrade Textiles is a Mumbai home-textile exporter of bed, table and kitchen linen and terry towels.
Girgaon and Kalbadevi
Bombay Handloom House in Kitchen Garden Lane, Kalbadevi, wholesales and retails bedsheets, curtains and blankets.
Mangaldas Market
Crown Textiles in Dubash Market, Sheikh Memon Street, wholesales furnishing fabric, curtains and towels.
Mangaldas Market
Pravin Kumar & Co.
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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.
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Soma, the Jaipur block-print house, has its Mumbai shop at Colaba selling hand block printed bedspreads, quilts and home textiles.
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Jagdish Store, the Delhi furnishing house, has its Mumbai showroom at Lower Parel for furnishings, bed covers and made-to-measure drapes.
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