Arvind Mills, the flagship company of the Lalbhai Group, is one of India's leading composite manufacturer of textiles.

Its headquarters is in Ahmedabad,Gujarat, India. It manufactures a range of cotton shirting, denim, knits and bottomweights (Khakis) fabrics. It is India's largest denim manufacturer
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apart from being worlds fourth-largest producer and exporter of denim. In

the early 1980s, the company brought denim into the domestic market, thus started the jeans revolution in India. Today it not only retails its own brands like Flying Machine, Newport and Excalibur but also licensed international brands like Arrow, Lee, Wrangler and Tommy Hilfiger, through its nationwide retail network. Arvind also runs a value retail chain, Megamart, which stocks company brands.
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. The original

budget for the company totaled $ 55 thousand, at present it is $ 500 million Arvind feature is that its enterprises are equipped with highly advanced equipment of a full cycle from painting the fiber to the finished product.
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Contents

1 History and operations 2 Businesses 3 Financial restructuring 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

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History and operations

Arvind Mills was established in 1931. It was founded by the three brothers Kasturbhai Lalbhai, Narottambhai Lalbhai and Chimanbhai Lalbhai one of the leading families of Ahmedabad. 1931 Arvind Mills Ltd. is incorporated with share capital Rs.2525000 ($55000) in Ahmedabad. Products manufactured are dhoties, sarees, mulls, dorias, crepes, shirtings,bra. panties, coatings, printed lawns & voiles cambrics, twills gaberdine etc. 1987 The Company took up a modernisation programme to triple the production of denim cloth and to produce double yarn fabrics for exports. The new product groups identified were the indigodyed blue denim, high quality two-ply fabrics for exports, and special products such as butta sarees, full voils and dhoties.

1991 Arvind reached 100 million meters of denim per year, becoming the fourth largest producer of denim in the world.

1992 The Company increased the production of denim cloth by 23,000 tonnes per day by modernising the plant located at Khatraj of Ankur Textiles.

1993 The Company proposed to expand the denim manufacturing capacity by 85,00,00 metres per annum. The Company also proposed to set up a new composite mill for producing annually 120 lakh metres of high quality shirting fabrics to be marketed in the domestic as well as international markets.

1994 The Company's operations were divided into 3 units viz., Textile Division, telecom division and garments division.

1995 The performance of textile division was significantly affected due to an unprecedented rise in cost of cotton. Garment division launched ready to stitch jeans pack under the brand `Ruf & Tuf`.

1997 The marketing and distribution network of `Newport` brand was strengthened and the relaunched `Flying Machine' and 'Ruggers` brand were strengthened. The Company reported a fire in the goods godown & folding packing department in Naroda Road unit of the company. Arvind Mills sets up the anti-piracy cell for the first time in India to curb large scale counterfeiting of their highly successful brands Ruf & Tuf and Newport jeans. Arvind Mills adopts the franchisee system for the manufacture and distribution of Ruf and Tuf jeans. Arvind Fashions, doubles its capacity in the state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Bangalore to produce Lee jeans. 1997 was also the year when arvind mills started facing serious troubles financially

1998 Arvind Mills emerges as the world's third largest manufacturer of denim. Arvind Mills goes live with SAP R/3 ERP package in April 1998 in their new manufacturing units.

1999 Arvind Mills sets a two-month deadline for hiving off its garments division into a separate company and sale of its real estate in Delhi.

2000 CRISIL downgrades the debenture issues of Arvind, indicating that the instruments were in default.

2001 Arvind Mills defaults on a $125 million floating rate note issue and puts forward a debt restructuring proposal that could significantly reduce its debt burden and sharply improve its financial health.

Arvind Mills posts a net loss of Rs 44.59 crore for the quarter ended September 30, 2001.

2003 For the fourth quarter, Arvind Mills witnesses 280% growth in the net profit Arvind Mills Ltd is assigned a `P1+` rating by CRISIL, which indicates a very strong rating for their commercial paper.

2004 Company turns itself around showing remarkable improvement in financial performance. 2005 For the fourth quarter in a row, Arvind Mills has managed to post a profit growth in excess of 80 per cent. Arvind Mills does not distribute dividends to its share holders consistently. Arvind Mills decides to buy entire stake in Arvind Brands from ICICI Ventures.

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Businesses

Fabric Denim Shirtings Khakis Knitwear Voiles

Garment Exports Shirts Jeans

Arvind Brands (owned) Flying Machine Newport Ruf & Tuf Excalibur

Arvind Brands (licensed) Arrow Lee Wrangler

Gant U.S.A. Sansabelt Izod Cherokee(Not sure)

In year of 2011 Arvind limited that enter in to Arvind infrastructure. It also has successfully run the Knowledge Academy (Ahmedabad University) since 2008. [edit]
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Financial restructuring

In the mid 1990s, Arvind Mills undertook a massive expansion of its denim capacity even though other cotton fabrics were slowly replacing the demand for denim. The expansion plan was funded by loans from both Indian and overseas financial institutions. With the demand for denim slowing, Arvind Mills found it difficult to repay the loans, and thus the interest burden on the loans shot up. In the late 1990s, Arvind Mills ran into financial problems because of its debt burden, and it incurred huge losses in the late 1990s. The company came up with a massive debt-restructuring plan for the long-term debts being taken up in February 2001. This complex financial restructuring exercise, which involved several domestic and international lenders, is considered to be the benchmark and a case study in India. The restructuring was overseen by Mr Jayesh Shah, CFO and advised on by a JP Morgan Hong Kong team, led by Mr Ahmad Ayaz.