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Kalyan Group is a holding company for the brands of
Kalyan Silks Kalyan Silks is an Indian textile retailer. It is a subsidiary of the Kalyan Group holding company. It was started in the city of Thrissur. other branches situated at Telangana Telangana (; , ) is a state in India situated on the south-cen ...
,
Kalyan Jewellers Kalyan Jewellers is an Indian chain of jewellery showrooms. The company open its initial public offering on March 16, 2021, and was publicly listed on March 26, 2021. History Kalyan Jewellers was founded by T. S. Kalyanaraman, who opened t ...
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Kalyan Developers Kalyan Group is a holding company for the brands of Kalyan Silks, Kalyan Jewellers, Kalyan Developers, Kalyan Sarees and Kalyan Collections. It is headquartered in Thrissur, Kerala, India. History The group was started in 1909 by T. S. Kalya ...
, Kalyan Sarees and Kalyan Collections. It is headquartered in
Thrissur Thrissur (), formerly Trichur, also known by its historical name Thrissivaperur, is a city and the headquarters of the Thrissur district in Kerala, India. It is the third largest urban agglomeration in Kerala after Kochi and Kozhikode, and t ...
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Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...
, India.


History

The group was started in 1909 by T. S. Kalyanarama Iyer, a priest who turned into an entrepreneur. He started a
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 ...
in
Thrissur Thrissur (), formerly Trichur, also known by its historical name Thrissivaperur, is a city and the headquarters of the Thrissur district in Kerala, India. It is the third largest urban agglomeration in Kerala after Kochi and Kozhikode, and t ...
city in 1930s which was later taken over by
Government of Kerala Government of Kerala is the subnational government of the Indian state of Kerala. The government is led by a chief minister, who selects all the other ministers. The chief minister and their most senior ministers belong to the supreme decision ...
. He came from
Kumbakonam Kumbakonam (formerly spelt as Coombaconum or Combaconum) or Kudanthai is a city municipal corporation in the Thanjavur district in the States of India, Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located from Thanjavur and from Chennai and is the headq ...
in
Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a States and union territories of India, state in southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of India ...
. Later he started a textile shop in
Thrissur Thrissur (), formerly Trichur, also known by its historical name Thrissivaperur, is a city and the headquarters of the Thrissur district in Kerala, India. It is the third largest urban agglomeration in Kerala after Kochi and Kozhikode, and t ...
city which flourished into
Kalyan Silks Kalyan Silks is an Indian textile retailer. It is a subsidiary of the Kalyan Group holding company. It was started in the city of Thrissur. other branches situated at Telangana Telangana (; , ) is a state in India situated on the south-cen ...
, Kalyan Sarees and Kalyan Collections. The group got its name from its founder Kalyanarama Iyer. Later his son T. K. Seetharamaiyer also joined the business. Seetharamaiyer in 1991 partitioned the businesses to five sons.
T. S. Kalyanaraman T. S. Kalyanaraman (born 23 April 1947) is an Indian businessman, best known as the chairman and managing director of Kalyan Jewellers and Kalyan Developers. Kalyan Group is the holding company of Kalyan Jewellers. Early life Kalyanaraman wa ...
, one of the five sons started the
Kalyan Jewellers Kalyan Jewellers is an Indian chain of jewellery showrooms. The company open its initial public offering on March 16, 2021, and was publicly listed on March 26, 2021. History Kalyan Jewellers was founded by T. S. Kalyanaraman, who opened t ...
in 1993.


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