3. Arvind Limited is a textile manufacturer and the flagship company
of the Lalbhai Group. Its headquarters is in Naroda, Ahmedabad,
Gujarat, India. It has units at Santej.
Sanjaybhai Lalbhai is the Chairman and Managing
Director of Arvind and Lalbhai Group.
The fabric made by Arvind can go
around the earth 6 times over
2 pieces of apparel are sold by an
Arvind managed brand, every
second in India.
Arvind is the largest fire protection fabric
producer in the country.
Kasturbhai lalbhai was the founder of the Arvind mills and
it was founded in 1931.
It is the 4th largest producer and exporter
of denim in the country.
4. THE ARVIND STORY
The Beginning
1931
In response to Mahatma Gandhi’s call for Swadeshi during the
struggle for Indian Independence, the Lalbhai family founded
Arvind Mills, creating a capacity to compete with the world’s
finest textile mills.
Textiles to Dye For
1952
After two decades of success in the textile industry, Arvind set up India’s
first dye and chemical plant,, in order to reduce the nation’s
dependence on imported dyes, and chemicals.
5. Denim takes Wings
1980
Flying Machine, India’s first denim apparel brand, was launched to
meet the aspirations of the emerging youth segment.
India's first denim
manufacturers
1986
Arvind’s – and India’s – first denim manufacturing plant was commissioned at Naroda
Road, Ahmedabad. Arvind was soon to emerge as a global leader in denim production.
By the end of 1987, Arvind also started manufacturing high-value cotton shirting.
Modern Manufacturing
envisioned
1996
Modern textile manufacturing units at Santej, near Ahmedabad. Spread over 450
acres and an investment over Rs. 1,000 crores, the plant was designed to produce
high-value cotton shirting, bottoms and knitted fabric for international markets.
6. Farm to Retail
2010
The Arvind Store was set up to house the best brands of Arvind under one roof.
The store offers not only the entire range of the Company’s fabrics and apparel
but also the services of Studio Arvind, the bespoke tailoring unit. There
are currently over 180 Arvind Stores across India.
Expanding the International Brand
Basket
2011
Beginning 2011, Arvind has brought in some of the biggest global fashion brands like
Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Gap, Ed Hardy, Hanes, Nautica and Elle to India
Stretching denim into new areas
2015
Arvind partnered with USA-headquartered Invista, the owner of the Lycra fiber
brand, to manufacture stretch denim fabric in India.
7.
8. Fabric and Apparel
DENIM
Denim is there heritage offerings. THEY have been the pioneers of the denim revolution in
India since the early 1980s. love affair with Denim is built upon four key pillars – design,
innovation, sustainability, and customer centricity.
Arvind is a global leader in denim production.
We collaborate with village industries on truly hand spun and handloom woven Denim
products that help us preserve our heritage crafts and support thousands of livelihoods.
Each year Arvind Denim produces over 100 million meters of fabrics and 6 million pairs of
jeans.
9. They produce about 130 million meters of woven fabric annually.
hey deliver creative and high quality fashion concepts in Formal and Casual Shirts,
Tops & Dresses, Trousers and Jackets across Color Woven's, Indigo, Solid and Print
categories.
They are creating seasonal fashion to timeless classics in Jeanswear, sportswear and
Formal category for there brand partners.
They also make suits for the brand primante whose fabric is sourced from Milan for
the urban and affluent Indian customers ..
WOVEN
They are one of the largest knit fabric manufacturers in India with a capacity of
12,000 T, and
garmenting capacity of ~20mn pieces per annum, growing exponentially. they
expertise is
ready-to-wear, ethnic wear, and essentials across fabric and garments for men,
women and kids.
They offer creative and high-end products in cotton, linen, viscose, modal, tencel,
polyester.
KNIT
10. Voil fabric defines the origin of Arvind in 1931.
They produces a wide range of voiles that is highly sought-after by women for
ethnic ensembles as well as other applications such as sophisticated furnishings
for high-end interiors.
Mills weave and process over 50 million meters of fine voiles upto 140’s count
each year. voiles are available in pure cotton, and blends such as polyester,
modal and Lycra.
The product brands such as Chakori, Tip-top, and Padmini are loved by women
for their elegance and comfort. With voiles, Arvind reach out to more than
20,000 points of sale, right into the heartlands of India, with a large portion of
being the unorganized sector.
VOIL
11. Brand
And
Retail
Flying Machine - India
It is India's first home bred jeans brand, owned by Arvind mills' garments
division. Born in the year 1980. It's really hard to find a fashion conscious male
from that time in India who did not wear denims made by us.
It is available at a decent price. By 1994 it had become a leader in branded
jeans in India and is still seen as trendy and premium.
12. The Arvind Store aims to create an enriching shopping experience for Men.
The store not only has the entire range of Arvind’s Shirting & Suiting fabrics but also offers super-
premium products for the discerning customer. .
To complete the set of offerings The Arvind Store houses the best brands from the house of
Arvind like Arrow & US Polo, and now also its Ready To Wear called “Arvind”.
The Arvind Store
Excalibur
Everything produced under Excalibur has personality woven into its very heart,
an unswerving energetic approach to producing truly exciting formal wear.
13. PROCESS
Being the largest manufacturing unit in India, Arvind have to follow protocol for
the production, planning and manufacturing.
Production planning and control
Manufacturing process
15. Production Planning & Control
Buyer Requirement Design
Goes to the customer for approval
Marketing department generate sale order with delivery date
Planning of Raw Material
Planning of work
Routine and scheduling Quality Control
17. EMPLOYEES
“It is a quest for something better, for something more
fulfilling, for creating, for fixing the world, for improving what
is, for creating impact.”
Arvind mills have over 25,000 employees across verticals ranging from retail to
advanced materials.
From the scratch all its production team, buyers, merchandisers and retailers
aim towards the quality and satisfaction to the end customers
and to be the number one in the apparel industries.
18. Susheel Kaul
(CEO, Lifestyle Fabrics – Knits & Woven)
Aamir Akhtar
(CEO, Lifestyle Fabrics – Denim)
Susheel has been working with Arvind, since 1993.
He joined Arvind as a mangment trainee after completing PG
in textile from IIT, Delhi.
His assessments included quality assurance and
product development, operations and business process
reengineering.
A professional with over three decades of experience in
textile & apparels and advancedmaterials,
he has been with Arvind since 2002.
A master in business administration,
Reliance industries was one of his previous assignments.
19. TURN OVER
“We aren’t just driven by bottom lines
and profits, but able and willing to drive
social impact”
Arvind mills net income is Rs. 318.85 crore (US $44 million) 2016.
And its revenue is Rs. 5,407.26 crore (US $750 million) 2016.
22. OTHER WORKS
Arvind SmartSpaces, builds skilfully designed and tastefully done up residential,
commercial and industrial spaces.
Arvind SmartSpaces has developed award winning projects in Ahmedabad,
Gandhinagar, and Bengaluru, which have been consistently patronized by discerning
local and global customers.
Real Estate
Environmental Solutions
Their water treatment, industrial waste water treatment , and sewage treatment
solutions help industries reduce their impact on the environment.
Their zero liquid discharge plants that use our patented polymeric film-based
Evaporator have the lowest operating costs in the world.
23. Advanced Materials
Engeering
For over five decades, Anup Engineering Limited has actively contributed to India’s
growth.
They work with industries like Oil and Gas, Petrochemicals, Fertilizers, Power,
Chemical, Water, Aerospace, and Pharmaceuticals by supplying critical process
equipment like Shell & Tube Heat Exchangers, Pressure Vessels, Reactors, Columns
& Towers, Centrifuges & Dished Ends.
Arvind Advanced Materials is our endeavour to branch out into other areas of
material science which use textiles as a backbone.
At Advanced Materials, they believe that material science is going to be an important
catalyst in solving country’s growth & development ambitions.
They focus on new fibres, new technology, and new products to solve the problems
of infrastructure, healthcare, energy, aviation, and industrial applications.