Man-made fibre fabric, much of it brought in from Surat.
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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Hindmata and Dadar
Siyaram’s, founded in 1978 by the Poddar family and headquartered at B-5 Trade World, Kamala Mills, Lower Parel, is one of the largest makers of blended suiting and shirting fabric in India, with its mills at Tarapur and
Hindmata and Dadar
Donear, founded in 1977 by the Agarwal family and headquartered at Donear House, Mahim, makes suiting and shirting fabric at Surat and Bhilad and owns the brands Donear, Grado and, since 2020, OCM and Mayur; it is listed
Lower Parel and Parel
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
Lower Parel and Parel
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
Lower Parel and Parel
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
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Lower Parel and Parel
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
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