Sanjay Lalbhai

Sanjay Lalbhai is the Chairman and Managing Director of one of India’s largest textile manufacturing companies, Arvind Mills Ltd. He has been associated with the Company for more than 25 years. He is also a Director at Arvind Spinning Ltd., Mauritius, Amol Decalite Limited, Torrent Pharmaceuticals Limited, Arvind Worldwide Inc., USA, Arvind Worldwide (M) Inc. and Arvind Overseas (M) Ltd. Arvind Mills, the flagship company of the Lalbhai Group, is one of India's leading composite manufacturers of textiles. Its headquarters is in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. It manufactures a range of cotton shirting, denim, knits and bottom weights (Khakis) fabrics. It is India's largest denim manufacturer apart from being world’s 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. 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.

Sanjay took prompt steps to meet the opportunities when he realized that following the abolition of the quota system in 2005, Asia would emerge as the hub of the global textile industry as it's the key textile outsourcing base. Sanjay took immediate steps to improve the yields and competitive manufacturing cost. Now, he is all set to grab the golden opportunity as now more than 40 per cent of the developed counties' textile markets have been opened.

With a person like Sanjay, who has already earned an international reputation, one can only hope that the Arvind Mills, the largest apparel brands company in India, will only go higher and higher in the global market.