Economy of Coimbatore is heavily influenced by

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engineering Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more speciali ...

and textiles. Coimbatore is called the

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of South India due to its extensive

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, and IT industry, small and medium scale enterprise gdp(gross domestic product) of Coimbatore city is around $45 billion in 2021.It is second largest city by GDP in Tamil Nadu. The city has four special economic zones EZ ELCOT SEZ, KGISL SEZ, SPAN Venture SEZ, Aspen SEZ and at least five more SEZs are in the pipeline. In 2010, Coimbatore ranked 15th in the list of most competitive (by business environment)

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n cities. Coimbatore has trade associations like CODISSIA, COINDIA and COJEWEL representing industries in the city. Coimbatore also has a trade fair ground, built in 1999. It was named COINTEC due to its hosting of INTEC (Small Industries Exhibition). The Trade Fair complex, one of the country's largest, was built in six months, and is owned by CODISSIA (Coimbatore District Small Industries Association). It is also the country's largest pillar-free hall, according to the Limca Book of Records.

Textiles

Coimbatore houses a large number of small, medium and large

textile mill Textile Manufacturing or Textile Engineering is a major industry. It is largely based on the conversion of fibre into yarn, then yarn into fabric. These are then dyed or printed, fabricated into cloth which is then converted into useful goods ...

s, along with a number of textile research institutes. The city also houses two of the Centers Of Excellences (COE) for technical textiles proposed by

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, namely Meditech, a medical textile research centre based at SITRA, and InduTech based in

PSG College of Technology PSG College of Technology is an autonomous, government aided, private engineering college in Coimbatore, India. It is affiliated with Anna University. It is affiliated to PSG and Sons Charities Trust. Among engineering colleges in India, PS ...

. There are several large textile mills in the city such as

Lakshmi Mills Lakshmi Mills Company is a major textile yarn and cloth manufacturer in Coimbatore, India. The company was established by G.Kuppuswamy Naidu in 1910. It has two composite textile units in Coimbatore: Avinashi Road and Palladam and one in Kovi ...

, Shiva Texyarn Limited, Bannari Amman Spinning Mill, SKS spinning mills, Kadri Mills, Varadharaja Textile Mill, KPR Mills, Premier Mills, world-famous micro cotton towel producers - Sharadha Terry Products etc.

National Textile Corporation National Textile Corporation is a central public sector undertaking under the ownership of Ministry of Textiles , Government of India It owns 23 working textile mills which produce yarn and fabric. The company was incorporated in April 1968. ...

is a company owned by the Indian government has 5 Mill units in Coimbatore. * Coimbatore Murugan Mills * Cambodia Mills * Coimbatore Spinning and Weaving Mill * Pankaja Mills * Sri Rangavilas Mills The neighbouring town of

Tirupur Tiruppur or Tirupur ( ) is a city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Tiruppur is the administrative headquarters of Tiruppur district and the fifth largest city as well as an urban agglomeration in Tamil Nadu. Located on the banks of Noyyal ...

is home to some of Asia's largest garment manufacturing companies, exporting hosiery clothes worth more than 50,000 million.

Manufacturing

Coimbatore has a large and a diversified manufacturing sector facilitated by the presence of

Sakthi Group The Sakthi Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate with operational areas in India, China, Europe, Middle East and United States. The group has operations in Sugar, Dairy, Industrial Alcohol, Automobile distribution and components, Transp ...

Bannari Amman Group Bannari Amman Group is an industrial conglomerate based in Tamil Nadu, with presence in manufacturing, trading and service. Manufacturing and trading activities include sugar, alcohol, liquor, granite etc. The service sector has wind power ...

, Lakshmi Machine Works,

Larsen & Toubro Larsen & Toubro Ltd, commonly known as L&T, is an Indian multinational conglomerate company, with business interests in engineering, construction, manufacturing, technology, information technology and financial services, headquartered in Mumba ...

, Baker Hughes, Alstom,

ZF Friedrichshafen ZF Friedrichshafen AG, also known as ZF Group, originally ''Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen'', and commonly abbreviated to ZF (ZF = "Zahnradfabrik" = "Cogwheel Factory"), is a German car parts maker headquartered in Friedrichshafen, in the south- ...

Mahle GmbH MAHLE GmbH is a German automotive parts manufacturer based in Stuttgart, Germany. It is one of the largest automotive suppliers worldwide. As a manufacturer of components and systems for the combustion engine and its periphery, the company is one ...

Konecranes Konecranes Oyj (KCI Konecranes prior to 16 March 2007) is a Finnish company, headquartered in Hyvinkää, which specialises in the manufacture and service of cranes and lifting equipment as well as the service of machine tools. The firm produces ...

Pricol Pricol Limited (founded as Premier Instruments and Controls Limited) is an automotive components and precision engineered products manufacturer based in Coimbatore, India. It was founded in 1972 by the late V.N. Ramachandran and N.Damodaran, but ...

, PEEPL Automation,

V-Guard Industries V-Guard Industries Ltd, is an Indian electricals and home appliances manufacturer, headquartered in Kochi and the largest in the state of Kerala with an annual turnover of billion ( million) in financial year 2017–18. The company manufactur ...

Suzlon Suzlon Energy Limited (NSE:SUZLONEQ, BSE:532667) is an Indian multinational wind turbine manufacturer based in Pune, India. It was formerly ranked by MAKE as the world's fifth largest wind turbine supplier.Source: MAKE Report: Global Wind Turb ...

, ARGO-HYTOS, Titan,

Flowserve The Flowserve Corporation is an American multinational corporation and one of the largest suppliers of industrial and environmental machinery such as pumps, valves, end face mechanical seals, automation, and services to the power, oil, gas, ch ...

, KSB, Makino, Messer,

Gilbarco Veeder-Root Gilbarco Inc., doing business as Gilbarco Veeder-Root, is a supplier of fuel dispensers, point of sales systems, payment systems, forecourt merchandising and support services. The company operates as a subsidiary of Vontier and its headquarters ...

, Bradken,

Rieter Rieter is a producer of textile machinery based in Winterthur, Switzerland. History Founded in 1795 by Johann Jacob Rieter (1762–1826), the company initially produced textile products. In 1806, as Napoleon imposed the Continental Blockade to ...

VWR International VWR International is an American company involved in the distribution of research laboratory products, with over 1,200,000 items to more than 250,000 customers in North America and Europe. The U.S. division is headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylv ...

Hella ''Hella'' is an American slang term that originated in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is used as an intensifying adverb such as in "hella bad" or "hella good" and was eventually added to the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' in 2002. It is possibl ...

, Shanthi Gears,

ITC Limited ITC Limited is an Indian conglomerate company headquartered in Kolkata. ITC has a diversified presence across industries such as FMCG, hotels, software, packaging, paperboards, specialty papers and agribusiness. The company has 13 businesses in ...

, ACC Cements,

TTK Prestige TTK Prestige Limited is an Indian company that manufactures kitchen appliances and cookware, under the "Prestige" and "Judge" brand. The company is best known for its pressure cookers. Company history TTK Prestige was incorporated as a private ...

Kirloskar Group Kirloskar Group is an Indian conglomerate, headquartered in Pune. The group exports to over 70 countries over most of Africa, Southeast Asia and Europe. The flagship and holding company, Kirloskar Brothers Ltd, established in 1888, is India's l ...

, Hirotec, ELGI Equipments, Roots Industries, Salzer Electronics, Mak Controls and systems, Texmo Industries, SE Electricals, FASCO Coimbatore(Factory Automation and Solutions Company) and others.

has huge manufacturing facility spread over 300 acre own campus. And there are more than 25,000 small, medium, large sale industries in the city. Coimbatore also has Engineering SEZ in the outskirts of city "Aspen SEZ" spread over 376 acres. CODISSIA Industrial Park is being set up at Moperipalayam nearly 260 acres and at Kallapalayam nearly 150 acres. The city already has industrial estates owned by SIDCO at Kurichi, SIDCO at Malumichampatti, Electrical & Electronics Industrial Estate at Kalapatti and Sree Suba Ganesh Industrial estate near Kovilpalayam. The large number of engineering colleges in the region producing about 50,000 engineers. Lakshmi Machine Works is India's largest textile machinery and CNC Machine Tool manufacturers based out of Coimbatore.

Engineering procurement and tooling

More than 50,000 engineering units function in and around Coimbatore city. What began as a focused centre for the manufacture of textile motors in the early 1900s has today become a multidisciplinary entity that is capable of catering to voluminous demands in the international market. Tooling Divisions were incepted primarily as captive units for manufacturing houses and have become a major engineering activity in the city today. Today several such companies offer precision tooling services to global industries. The light engineering industry in the Coimbatore region also specializes in offering customized engineering solutions for diverse requirements.

Automotive engineering and components

Coimbatore has emerged as one of the most trusted outsourcing destinations for the auto component industry. Several factors have contributed to this growth, including ready availability of resources and skilled technical talent. Technical Partnerships and strategic alliances with global manufacturers have given the Coimbatore auto component industry more mileage in the international market. Today, auto majors with a growing presence in India source both major components and sub-assemblies from the city. Several international automotive manufacturers source components ranging from exhaust systems to braking systems, seating, electronic and electrical components, mechanical engine parts, body components and suspensions and radiators among others. Many auto component manufacturing companies are OE partners to multinational brands. Textool was one such company that once designed and supplied Sten Guns to the Indian Government after independence. They also developed the first in-house-designed car in the 1960s, which never saw the light of day due to the

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. They made several prototypes until the 1990s. They successfully manufactured India's first indigenously developed diesel engines in 1972 for cars and their own

CNC Numerical control (also computer numerical control, and commonly called CNC) is the automated control of machining tools (such as drills, lathes, mills, grinders, routers and 3D printers) by means of a computer. A CNC machine processes a p ...

lathes in 1982. Today their spin-off company, Jayem Automotives Pvt Ltd, offers R & D services to

Tata Motors Tata Motors Limited is an Indian multinational automotive manufacturing company, headquartered in Mumbai, India, which is part of the Tata Group. The company produces passenger cars, trucks, vans, coaches, buses. Formerly known as Tata Eng ...

Renault Groupe Renault ( , , , also known as the Renault Group in English; legally Renault S.A.) is a French multinational automobile manufacturer established in 1899. The company produces a range of cars and vans, and in the past has manufacture ...

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Eicher Eicher may refer to: * Eicher (surname), a surname * Eicher Motors (Eicher Group) * Eicher tractor * Eicher School, a school in the Faridabad district in the state of Haryana, India * 3617 Eicher, a main-belt asteroid See also * Aicher * Aich ...

, Daimler, TVS,

Hero Motors Hero Motors is a former moped and scooter manufacturer based in Delhi, India. It is a part of multinational company Hero Motors Company, which also currently owns Hero Motocorp (formerly Hero Honda) and Hero Cycles, among others. Hero Motors was ...

and Robert Bosch GmbH.

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and Tata Motors source up to 30% of their automotive components from Coimbatore. Some of the countries leading auto component makers based from in Coimbatore include Pricol, Hirotec, Craftsman Automation and Roots Industry. Apart from this Robert Bosch GmbH has a large technical centre in the city.

Wet grinders and Home appliances

Coimbatore has more than 700

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manufacturers with a monthly output, of 75,000 units per every 100,000 produced in India, as of 2015. The term "Coimbatore Wet Grinder" was given a

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for wet grinders manufactured in Coimbatore in 2006. Coimbatore is also home to a common facility for the manufacturers of wet grinders.

Motor and pumps

Coimbatore is also called as the ''Pump City of Asia'' and has played a dominant role in the agricultural sector since independence and holds a major portion of the total Indian market share. The first motor to be manufactured in India came from a small engineering shop in Coimbatore. Today, the pump and motor manufacturing sector is among the largest engineering activities in the city. The pump manufacturing industry in Coimbatore. Over the years, the city has become as well known for its pumps as it has for its textiles. Many brands in the international market are Coimbatore based companies and the quality and technical superiority of the products has helped the sector cater to both domestic and global demands. Apart from a leading presence in the water pump market, the city's manufacturing houses also specialize in the manufacture of industrial pumps. The motor and pump industry supplies over 40% of India's requirements.

Jewellery and gems

Coimbatore is one of the major gold jewellery manufacturing hubs in India, renowned for making cast jewellery and machine made jewellery. The city is home to about 3000 jewellery manufacturing companies and to over 40,000 goldsmiths. The jewellery manufacturers have an active association called Coimbatore Jewellery Manufacturers' Association, and have also jointly established Coimbatore Gem and Jewellery Industries Private Limited (Cojewel), which is a common facility with niche goldsmith machinery to be used by the members of the association. Several jewellery retail chains like Kirtilal's are based in Coimbatore or have their manufacturing base in Coimbatore. Owing to the presence of a large number of jewellery manufacturers and the strong engineering base, the city is home to a number of companies manufacturing jewellery making machinery. The city is also a major diamond cutting centre in South India. For example, Kirtilal's Jewellers alone have 5 diamond cutting and polishing centres in Coimbatore.

Information Technology and BPO

The city is the second largest software producer in Tamil Nadu, next only to Chennai. IT and BPO industry in the city has grown greatly with the launch of

TIDEL Park Coimbatore TIDEL Park Coimbatore is an information technology (IT) park in Coimbatore, India. It was set up in 2006 to foster the growth of information technology in other districts of Tamil Nadu by TIDEL Park Ltd, a joint venture of Tamil Nadu Industria ...

& Wipro Software Development Centre in ELCOT SEZ, KCT TechPark, Hanudev Infopark, Rathinam Technopark, KGISL Campus, Span Venture SEZ, Elysium Central and other planned IT parks in and around the city. It is ranked at 17th among the global outsourcing cities. Companies like

Amazon Amazon most often refers to: * Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology * Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin * Amazon River, in South America * Amazon (company), an American multinational technolog ...

, Accenture, Bosch,

Cognizant Cognizant is an American multinational information technology services and consulting company. It is headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, United States. Cognizant is part of the NASDAQ-100 and trades under CTSH. It was founded as an in-hous ...

Capgemini Capgemini SE is a multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting company, headquartered in Paris, France. History Capgemini was founded by Serge Kampf in 1967 as an enterprise management and data processing company. The comp ...

Deloitte Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (), commonly referred to as Deloitte, is an international professional services network headquartered in London, England. Deloitte is the largest professional services network by revenue and number of professio ...

Ford Ford commonly refers to: * Ford Motor Company, an automobile manufacturer founded by Henry Ford * Ford (crossing), a shallow crossing on a river Ford may also refer to: Ford Motor Company * Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company * Ford F ...

Flextronics Flex Ltd. (previously known as Flextronics International Ltd. or Flextronics) is an American Singaporean-domiciled multinational diversified manufacturing company. It is the third largest global electronics manufacturing services (EMS), origi ...

, IBM,

Tata Consultancy Services Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an Indian multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting company with its headquarters in Mumbai. It is a part of the Tata Group and operates in 150 locations across 46 countries. In July ...

Infosys Infosys Limited is an Indian multinational information technology company that provides business consulting, information technology and outsourcing services. The company was founded in Pune and is headquartered in Bangalore. Infosys is the s ...

Wipro Wipro Limited (formerly, Western India Palm Refined Oils Limited) is an Indian multinational corporation that provides information technology, consulting and business process services. Thierry Delaporte is serving as CEO and managing directo ...

HCL HCL may refer to: Science and medicine * Hairy cell leukemia, an uncommon and slowly progressing B cell leukemia * Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory, from 1961 to 2002, a proton accelerator used for research and development * Hollow-cathode lamp, a spe ...

Tech Mahindra Tech Mahindra is an Indian multinational information technology services and consulting company. Part of the Mahindra Group, the company is headquartered in Pune and has its registered office in Mumbai. Tech Mahindra is a 6.0 billion company ...

Ericsson (lit. "Telephone Stock Company of LM Ericsson"), commonly known as Ericsson, is a Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company headquartered in Stockholm. The company sells infrastructure, software, and services in informa ...

L&T Infotech LTIMindtree Limited is an Indian multinational information technology services and consulting company based in Mumbai. A subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro, the company was incorporated in 1996 and employs more than 90,000 people. History The co ...

, Cameron International,

NTT DATA is a Japanese multinational information technology (IT) service and consulting company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is a partially-owned subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT). Japan Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation ...

, Harman, ThoughtWorks, McWane,

Mindtree Mindtree Ltd was an Indian multinational information technology services and consulting company, headquartered in Bangalore. It is a part of the Larsen & Toubro Group. Since its foundation in 1999, the company has employed over 38,518 employ ...

, Tessolve,

Applied Materials Applied Materials, Inc. is an American corporation that supplies equipment, services and software for the manufacture of semiconductor (integrated circuit) chips for electronics, flat panel displays for computers, smartphones, televisions, and ...

IQVIA IQVIA, formerly Quintiles and IMS Health, Inc., is an American multinational company serving the combined industries of health information technology and clinical research. IQVIA is a provider of biopharmaceutical development and commercial outs ...

Owler Owler is an American Internet company headquartered in San Mateo, California. It crowdsources competitive insights by providing news alerts, company profiles, and polls and allows members to follow, track, and research companies in real time. The ...

UST Global UST, formerly known as UST GLOBAL, is a provider of digital technology and transformation, information technology and services, headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, United States. Stephen Ross founded UST in 1998 in Laguna Hills. The compa ...

Visteon Visteon Corporation (VC) is an American global automotive electronics supplier and Fortune 500 company spun off from the Ford Motor Company in 2000. Visteon is composed of multiple businesses that design, engineer, and manufacture vehicle cockpit ...

having a presence in the city.

has second largest headcount in the country with more than 15000+ employees in the city. And Bosch has one of the largest development center in Coimbatore outside Germany with 5500+ employees in the city. Software export stood more than 15,000 crores for the financial year 2018–2019, which is second largest in the state after Chennai. With abundance of engineering colleges and availability of skilled resources Coimbatore is becoming a go-to destination for the technology startups recently, companies lik
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headquartered in Portland, USA is building enterprise scale products with engineering team operating from Coimbatore. TICEL Bio-Park III, a Bio-Technology Park constructed in 10 acres of land at Somayampalayam, Coimbatore. Due to huge demand from IT Companies for space at Coimbatore, ELCOT IT park is being constructed at 114 Crores in ELCOT SEZ which is set to open in 2023 and TIDEL Park Coimbatore-Phase-II is planned to be built within ELCOT SEZ in additional 6 acres of land with 5 Lakh sq.feet space at 250 crores. SEZ * Aspen SEZ -Manufacturing * KGISL SEZ - IT/ITS & Hardware * ELCOT SEZ - IT/ITS * SPAN SEZ - IT/ITS IT Parks *

in ELCOT SEZ @

Peelamedu Peelamedu is a major commercial centre and residential locality in the Eastern part of the city of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, India. It is governed by Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation since 1981. The growth of Peelamedu during the last de ...

* IndiaLand Techpark @ KGISL SEZ,

Keeranatham Keeranatham is a part of the Coimbatore city. Keeranatham is one of the fast-growing neighbourhood A neighbourhood (British English, Irish English, Australian English and Canadian English) or neighborhood (American English; see spelli ...

* SVB Tech Park @

Kalapatti Kalapatti is a neighborhood of Coimbatore city in Tamil Nadu, India. It is located 17 km North-East direction, within the city limits. Now Kalapatti is merged with Corporation of Coimbatore. Because of an increase of information technolog ...

* ELCOT IT Park in ELCOT SEZ @

-Under Construction * Hanudev Infopark @ Nava India,

Avinashi Road Avinashi Road, is an arterial road in Coimbatore, India. Running from east to west, the road starts at Uppilipalayam flyover and ends at Neelambur by-pass junction where it joins NH 544, Beyond Neelambur Junction, the road branches into two, w ...

* Global Tech Park @

* KCT TechPark @

Saravanampatti Saravanampatti is a neighborhood of the Coimbatore city. It lies on the north-eastern part of the city. Saravanampatti is one of the fast-growing neighbourhoods of Coimbatore, because of the proliferation of IT companies in areas such as Sara ...

* KGISL Campus @

* Mohan Business Park @

Thudiyalur Thudiyalur is a neighborhood in the city of Coimbatore, in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is about north of Town Hall. Thudiyalur is one of the fast-growing neighbourhoods of Coimbatore, due to the presence of many industries and IT comp ...

Road * Rathinam TechnoPark @

Eachanari Eachanari is a suburb of Coimbatore city in Tamil Nadu, India. The suburb and its environs are also home to the Eachanari Vinayagar Temple. It exists within the Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation jurisdiction. Geography Eachanari is locate ...

* Embassy Tech Zone @ Span Venture SEZ,

* TICEL Bio-Park III @ Marudhamalai road * TechZone IT Park at GD Naidu Road-Planned * STPI @ GCT, Coimbatore-Planned * L&T IT Park @ L&T highways road-Planned Industrial Parks * Codissia Industrial Park-I -Kallapalayam * Codissia Industrial Park-II -Mopperipalayam * SIDCO Industrial. Estate-Kuruchi * SIDCO Industrial. Estate-Malumichampatti * Sree Suba Ganesh Industrial Estate-Kuppepalayam * Electronics Industrial Estate- Civil Aerodrome Post * Annamalai Industrial Park, Kalapatti *

Sulur Sulur (Tamil:) is a town located in the Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu, India. It is a suburb of Coimbatore. It is the headquarters of Sulur Taluk of Coimbatore district. There are many market places and many big retail and wholesale shops ...

Industrial Estate-Kannampalayam * Nethaji Industrial Estate-Devampalayam -Proposed * Defense & Aero Park-

-Planned * ADD ELCINA Electronics Park,

Annur Annur is a town Panchayat and Taluk headquarters of Annur Taluk of coimbatore district. It is a suburb of Coimbatore city located north-east about from the center of the city. Nearest airport is Coimbatore International Airport, which is ...

-Proposed Logistics Parks *

Fulfillment Center- Coimbatore *

Flipkart Flipkart Private Limited is an Indian e-commerce company, headquartered in Bengaluru, and incorporated in Singapore as a private limited company. The company initially focused on online book sales before expanding into other product categorie ...

Fulfillment Center- Coimbatore * Ecom Express Fulfillment Center- Coimbatore * IndoSpace Skill Logistics Park - Coimbatore * Safexpress Logistics Park * Marudhamalai Andavar Industrial & Logistics Park, Coimbatore by TVS Industrial & Logistics Park Pvt Ltd * Adithya Warehouse

Aerospace & Defence

Coimbatore is being selected for Defense Corridor of Tamil Nadu and State Government is planned to set up Defense & Aero Park at

around 500 acres. And already major MNC's have huge manufacturing plant in the city for Aerospace & Defense products. *

@ Malumichampatti * L&T

MBDA MBDA is a European multinational developer and manufacturer of missiles.MBDA Inc. US Division Co ...

Missile Systems @ Aspen SEZ, Karumathampatti * Lakshmi Machine Works *

* Roots Industries * Circor International @ Thennampalayam *

HAL AMCA The Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) is an Indian programme to develop a fifth-generation stealth, multirole, air superiority fighter for the Indian Air Force and the Indian Navy which will also include sixth-generation technologies. ...

@ Sulur-Planned

Central Government Units

* Indian Air Force @

* INS Agrani @ Red Fields,

Puliakulam Puliakulam is a residential neighborhood in the city of Coimbatore. Arulmigu Munthi Vinayagar Temple and Abirami Amman Kovil are famous facecets of this place. This place has seen an influx of migrated population in the last decade, due to its ...

* Indian Army Regiment @

Madukkarai Madukkarai is a suburb of Coimbatore city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the gateway to Coimbatore city from Kerala State and is located around 12 km from the Kerala border. The Coimbatore International Airport is about 27&nbs ...

Central Reserve Police Force The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is a federal police organisation in India under the authority of the Ministry of Home Affairs (India), Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) of the Government of India. It is one among the Central Armed Police F ...

@ Thoppampatti

Railways & Telecommunication

Indian Railways has Manufacturing Plant in the city for Signal & Telecommunication and it is one of the important Telecommunication manufacturing facility for Indian Railways. * Southern Railway Signal & Telecom(S&T) Workshop in Podanur- Largest Telecom & Signal Industry among all 7 S&T across the country. A French multinational company operating worldwide in rail transport markets having Asia's largest Comeponent manufacturing facility in the city. * Alstom

Paper

has a manufacturing facility in Coimbatore for Paperboards & Speciality Paper division.

Government Printing Press

Government of India Press,Coimbatore is a printing agency spread across 132.07 acre campus in Press colony at Coimbatore in the state of Tamil Nadu, which is owned and managed by the Government of India and responsible for printing national and public documents.

Cements

ACC Cements have huge cement manufacturing plant in Coimbatore

Poultry and food products

Coimbatore has a large number of poultry farms and is one of the major producers of chicken, eggs and processed meat amounting to nearly 95% of the chicken meat exports from the country. Major companies include Suguna Foods and Shanthi Feeds. Coimbatore has some of the oldest flour mills in India. The large-scale flour mills, which cater to all the southern states, have a combined grinding capacity of more than 50,000 MT per month. The city houses many famous high-capacity flour mills like India Roller Flour Mills (now closed) and Coimbatore Roller Flour Mills.

Retail and e-commerce

There are a number of retail outlets, supermarkets and shopping malls in Coimbatore. The city has major shopping malls include Brookefields Mall, Fun Republic Mall and Prozone Mall. Popular cinemas include INOX, The Cinema by

SPI Cinemas SPI Cinemas is an Indian multiplex chain originally owned by the SPI Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The company is often lauded for its premium quality and inexpensive pricing. Its theatres, primarily Sathyam, are often used by ...

Cinépolis Cinépolis is a Mexican and international movie theater chain. Its name means ''City of Cinema'' and its slogan is ''La Capital del Cine'' ( en, the Capital of Cinema). Cinépolis was the biggest cineplex chain in Mexico, with 427 theaters in ...

, Miraj Cinemas, Maharaja Multiplex, SDC Cinemas and KG Cinemas. Coimbatore is already the largest non-metro city for e-commerce in South India, due to growing online shopping, e-ticketing and e-billing adaptation in the city. Malls * Brookefields Mall * Fun Republic Mall * Prozone Mall Branded Cinemas * The Cinema by

- 6 Screens (SPI Cinemas acquired by PVR Cinemas) *

- 5 Screens * INOX- 9 Screens * Miraj Cinemas - 5 Screens * Broadway Megaplex / IMAX - 10 Screens oming Soon in 2022

Hospitality

In the recent years, the city has seen growth in the hospitality industry. 5-Star Hotels *

Radisson Blu Radisson Blu is an international chain of hotels operated by Radisson Hotels. With roots dating back to the 1960s, the Radisson Blu brand name came into existence in 2009 with a rebranding from Radisson SAS. Its hotels are found in major cities, ...

* Le Méridien * Vivanta by Taj * The Residency Towers * Welcomhotel by ITC Hotels * Kenilworth Hotel lanned'' 4-Star Hotels * Zone by The Park Hotel * Zone Connect Hotel * Hash 6 Hotel * Lemon Tree Hotel *

Fairfield by Marriott Fairfield by Marriott is a franchised economy to midscale hotel brand of Marriott International. The properties target guests willing to accept fewer amenities for lower prices. Cost-saving measures included standardized building architecture ...

* Gokulam Park * Hotel Rajpark ''under Construction 3-Star Hotels * Ibis Coimbatore City Centre * Hotel Heritage Inn * Hotel Vijay Elanza * Holiday Residency * Hotel LeGrand * Hotel CAG pride * The Orbis * Jenney Club

References

External links

* {{Coimbatore Economy of Coimbatore Economy of Tamil Nadu