Arvind Limited (formerly Arvind Mills) is a textile manufacturer and the flagship company of the Lalbhai Group. Its headquarters are in Naroda, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, and it has units at Santej (near Kalol). The company manufactures cotton shirting, denim, knits and bottomweight (khaki) fabrics. It has also recently ventured into technical textiles when it started Advanced Materials Division in 2011. It is India's largest denim manufacturer. Sanjaybhai Lalbhai is the current Chairman and managing director of Arvind and Lalbhai Group. In the early 1980s, he led the 'Reno-vision' whereby the company brought denim into the domestic market, thus starting the jeans revolution in India. Today it retails its own brands like Flying Machine, Newport and Excalibur and licensed international brands like Arrow, Tommy Hilfiger, and Calvin Klein through its nationwide retail network. Arvind also runs three clothing and accessories retail chains, the Arvind Store, Unlimited and Megamart, which stocks company brands. History and operations 1897: Arvind Mills starts a business for sarees. 1931: Arvind Mills Ltd is incorporated by three brothers Kasturbhai, Narottambhai and Chimanbhai. with a share capital of ₹165,000 ($2500) in Ahmedabad. The products manufactured are dhoties, sarees, mulls, dorias, crepes, shirtings, lingerie, coatings, printed lawns and voiles cambrics, twills and gaberdine. 1934: Becomes established as the foremost textile units in the country. 1985: Diversified into electronics by setting up a plant to manufacture electronic telephone exchanges (EPABX) and also entering into marketing pharmaceutical products and B&W and colour television sets under the name Pyramid. 1986: Becomes first company in India bring globally accepted fabrics such as Denim yarn dyed shirting fabrics & wrinkle free gabardines. 1987: The company takes up a modernisation program to triple the production of denim cloth and to produce double yarn fabrics for exports. The new product groups identified are: indigo dyed blue denim and high quality two-ply fabrics for exports, and products such as butta sarees, full voiles and dhoties. Also started retail outlets for 'Arrow' brand and became the first company in India to bring international shirt brand 'Arrow'. 1991: Arvind reaches 100 million meters of denim per year, becoming the fourth-largest producer of denim in the world. 1992: The company increases production of denim cloth by 23,000 tonnes per day by modernising the plant at Khatraj of Ankur Textiles. 1994: The company's operations are divided into textile, telecom and garments divisions. 1995: The garment division launches ready to stitch jeans