Tata Textiles

{{Short description|Indian textile manufacturer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2019}}

{{Use Indian English|date=February 2019}}

{{Infobox company

| parent = Tata Group

| hq_location_city = Bombay

| hq_location_country = India

|foundation = {{Start date|1874}}

| defunct = {{end date|1997}}

}}

Tata Textile Mills was a textile mills business of Tata Group, with its head office in Bombay. It consisted of four textile mills; namely, Central India Mills also popularly known as Empress Mills in Nagpur, the Svadeshi Mills in Bombay, the Tata Mills in Bombay, and the Advance Mills in Ahmedabad.Claude Markovits. [https://books.google.com/books?id=b-URirZAjjQC&pg=PA31 Indian Business and Nationalist Politics 1931-39: The Indigenous Capitalist Class and the Rise of the Congress Party]. Cambridge University Press; 16 May 2002 [Retrieved 3 March 2017]. {{ISBN|978-0-521-01682-7}}. p. 31. For several decades the four mills produced and sold fabrics under the much-reputed brand name of Tata Textiles.

Tata made its first entry into manufacturing and industry in 1874, when it founder, Jamsetji Tata, started The Central India Spinning, Weaving and Manufacturing Company in Victoria Mills, later renamed Empress Mill when Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India on 1 January 1877.{{Cite web |url=http://www.tata.com/htm/Group_milestone.htm |title=Tata Group Milestones |access-date=3 March 2017 |archive-date=5 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150305013454/http://www.tata.com/htm/Group_milestone.htm |url-status=dead }} In 1887, Jamsetji purchased the failing Dharamsi Mills located at Kurla, renamed it Svadeshi Mill, and made it a success, with its produced cloth extensively exported to China, Korea, Japan, and the Levant.[http://theory.tifr.res.in/bombay/persons/jamsetji-tata.html Jashedji Tata] The Ahmadabad Advance Mills began its operation in 1903.

Jointly, Tata mills were one of big producers of cotton textiles in India until the 1980s. The four mills of Tata Textiles produced about 150 million metres of cotton and other cloth annually in 1972, having 325,000 spindles and 6845 looms.[https://books.google.com/books?id=1REoAAAAMAAJ The Eastern Economist; a Weekly Review of Indian and International Economic Affairs]. R.P. Agarwala; 1972 [Retrieved 3 March 2017]. p. 855.[https://books.google.com/books?id=r40HSBX7DaIC&pg=PA79 Evolution of Indian Economy & elementary Statistics]. Allied Publishers; [Retrieved 3 March 2017]. {{ISBN|978-81-7764-033-5}}. p. 79.[https://books.google.com/books?id=KGskAQAAMAAJ Handbook of Indian Cotton Textile Industry]. 1969 [Retrieved 4 March 2017]. p. 12. Tatas gradually exited from textile business, from the 1980s, selling Nagpur-based Empress Mills in 1986, which was taken over by Maharashtra State Textile Corporation, which closed it, in 2002.{{cite news|title=Nagpur's 110-year-old Empress Mills closed down|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/Nagpurs-110-year-old-Empress-Mills-closed-down/articleshow/22267717.cms|accessdate=3 March 2017|agency=Times of India|date=15 September 2002}} In 1990 they exited from 87 year old New Ahmadabad Advance Mills, which was sold to Phulchand Exports.[https://books.google.com/books?id=aN8iAQAAMAAJ Business India]. A.H. Advani; October 1990 [Retrieved 3 March 2017]. p. 75. The Tata Mill at Parel was taken over by National Textile Corporation.{{cite news|title=NTC resurrects 3 Mumbai mills|url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/ntc-resurrects-3-mumbai-mills-110011800083_1.html|accessdate=3 March 2017|agency=Business Standard|date=18 January 2010}} Tata Housing Development Company was reported to be gaining possession of a large area of land in the heart of Mumbai, which had been in possession of the defunct National Textiles Corporation-run Tata Mills at Parel.{{cite news|title=Tata Housing Development Company will get possession of a large area of land in the heart of Mumbai.|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-tata-housing-gets-parel-mill-land-1585476|accessdate=3 March 2017|agency=DNA News}}{{cite news|title=40 acres of prime Mumbai land to be opened for realty|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/mumbai/40-acres-of-prime-mumbai-land-to-be-opened-for-realty/story-gzXWaMZx0ApPWwB7O5vWmN.html|accessdate=3 March 2017|agency=Hindustan Times|date=3 February 2015}} While Svadeshi Mill wound up after it went to BIFR, in 1997, and the Shapoorji Pallonji Group has since waged a legal battle, as its chief creditor.{{cite news|title=Shapoorji Pallonji loses court battle for Swadeshi Mills|url=http://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/other//articleshow/16172863.cms?|accessdate=3 March 2017|date=16 October 2017}} So, by 1997, Tata Textile Mills wound up all its business.