While the apparel industry is highly fragmented, with no single player commanding over 1% of

the total domestic market, there are a few relatively big players in the market. Some of them
are documented in the table below.
Firm Name Established in Key Business areas
Raymond Limited 1925 Worsted suiting, tailored clothing, denim, shirting,
woollen outerwear
Welspun India Limited 1985 Home textiles, bathrobes, terry towels
Vardhman Group 1965 Yarn, fabric, sewing threads, acrylic fibre
Alok Industries Limited 1986 Home textiles, woven and knitted apparel fabric,
garments and polyester yarn
Arvind Limited 1931 Spinning, weaving, processing and garment
production (denims, shirting, khakis and knitwear)
Garden Silk Mills Limited 1979 Dyed and printed fabric
Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing
Company Limited
1879 Bed linen, towels, furnishings, fabric for suits,
shirts, dresses and saris in cotton and polyester
blends
Aditya Birla Nuvo Limited 1956 Domestic Linen, Worsted yarn, Viscose filament
yarn
Provogue (India) Limited 1997 Fabrics and yarns, grey cotton fabric, textile
machineries and accessories
Key Success Factors

The cardinal factors that affect the performance of the textile industry can be divided into two
major categories.
1) The production related factors
2) The post production factors
Production-based Key Success Parameters

Since the offerings in the cotton yarn and man-made fibre sector are not much differentiated,
cost per unit becomes a major measure of efficiency and thus a deciding factor as far as success
is concerned in this industry. The other part of industry comprises mills that make use of the
produce from cotton yarn and man-made fibre manufacturers to weave the material into fabric
and process them into ready-made garments thereof. It also consists of advanced, vertically-
integrated composite units, bringing together combing, spinning, weaving, dyeing and finishing
processes. All the segments of the industry focus a lot on the cost per unit and it is in turn
affected by a host of operational factors of efficiency as given hereunder.
Capacity utilization is an important indicator of resource utilization for any industrial unit. This
is especially important for capital intensive sectors like spinning which form a major part of
composite manufacturing of yarn from fibres to be used for fabric making. Further, due to the
modernization of the spindles and increasing demand the capacity utilization in industry on an
average has increased over the years with increased private participation in the industry. A
similar trend of sluggish growth in the capacity utilization was also observed in the readymade
garments industry when the Prowess data for capacity utilization was analyzed for 90 garment
producing units.
Yarn-fibre ratio
Yarn-fibre ratio refers to the output of yarn per unit of fibre used i.e. how many units of yarn
are produced from one unit of fibre. This shows the efficiency in the utilization of raw materials.
The ratio has been calculated both in quantity and value terms. The estimates show that over
the last 20 years period not much change has occurred in the conversion from fibre to yarn
ratio in quantity terms as ratio remain more or less stable and vary from 0.79 to 0.84. (NCAER,
2009)
Fabric-Yarn Ratio
Fabric-yarn ratio (in value terms) refers to value of fabric made per unit of yarn used. This
captures the value addition achieved by the weaving industry. Sustainability of the weaving
industry also is requires this ratio to be more than 1. We see that based on the analysis done in
NCAER, 2009 report, taking into account 37 weaving mills from Prowess data, this ratio has
shown slow but sustained improvement.