Raymond Group is a hundred year business group that has grown with India and stayed true to one idea. When you promise quality, you earn trust. When you repeat that every day, you build excellence. This is The Raymond Way.
Today, the group brings this ethos to its focused businesses across lifestyle, real estate, denim, precision engineering and aerospace through Raymond Lifestyle, Raymond Realty, Raymond UCO Denim, JK Maini Precision Technology and JK Maini Global Aerospace. Each business works in its own market, yet they are bound by the same discipline of craft, integrity, and long term thinking.
As Raymond Group enters its centenary year, the ambition is clear. Deepen its strengths. Back its people and leaders. Create value that endures across cycles and generations. The Raymond Way guides every choice the group makes, in India and across the world.
In 1958, well before American companies were sourcing from India, John Bissell left his position as a buyer for Macy’s New York to work as a consultant for the Ford Foundation in order to develop India’s export potential in its emerging textile industry. What Bissell discovered was a village-based industry with a profusion of skills hidden from the world.
Determined to showcase Indian handloom textiles while providing equitable employment to traditional artisans, Bissell established Fabindia in 1960 in order to fuse the best aspects of East/West collaboration.
Fifteen years later the first Fabindia retail store was opened in Greater Kailash, New Delhi with a range of upholstery fabrics, durries and home linens. By the early eighties, we started producing garments made from hand woven and hand block printed fabrics.
Over the years the focus of Fabindia's marketing shifted from exports to the local Indian retail market. What started as an export house has today become a successful retail business presenting Indian textiles in a variety of natural fibers, and home products including furniture, lights and lamps, stationery, home accessories, pottery and cutlery. Extending this partnership to the farmers in rural areas, Fabindia launched its organic food products range in 2004. Fabindia Sana, the company’s authentic bodycare products range is also being launched at all Fabindia outlets.
Fabindia sources its products from over 15000 craft persons and artisans across India. We support the craft traditions of India by providing a market and thereby encourage and sustain rural employment. Today we have retail outlets in all major cities of India - 217 last count - in addition to 11 international stores .
Born out of the love of design, Chumbak takes everyday objects and turns them into colourful and fun-filled products. We're driven by smiling customers and to Make Happy is what makes us tick :)
Based in Bangalore, we design all our products in-house at the Chumbak Design Studio. We retail over 100 categories across 40+ stores pan India.