In the year 1969, Mr. T. Suryanarayana, a visionary from Vijayawada, emerged as a successful manufacturer of knitted Garments, thinking ahead of times, the potential for products with uncompromising quality.

When people were hesitant to enter business, Mr. Suryanarayana pursued and built up his knitwear industry with state of art machinery and available human resources to make Vilan, a Multimillion, multi-product, Multi-metro Industry. He was insistent on consistent quality and world class standard for the products made in his factory. Vilan Group still remains committed to quality and continues to be a House of Trust.

It was in the seventies that
Mr. Chandrashekar Rao, the eldest son showed unparallel interest in the father’s business. Immediately after his graduation in Commerce, he moved to Tirupur in Tamilnadu, an Internationally acclaimed hub for knitted garments in Asia to learn more about Textile Technology. As he was doing his supervisory Management in factories, he learned more about the Technology and had shown interest in R & D to bring out the best in quality. It was a learning curve and was an experimental turn for many of the innovative products from Vilan. While becoming a powerful successor of Mr. Suryanarayana, he took on the entire responsibility of putting up the Modern Production facility in Vijayawada, the home town of Vilan and headed the Marketing of Vilan products in Andhra Pradesh.

Mr. Chandrashekar Rao, widened the product range by introducing Sportswear for aspiring athletes and sportspersons. Catering to the growing demand and increasing potential, he opened 11 Exclusive Show Rooms in different parts of Andhra Pradesh starting from the twin cities, Hyderabad and Secunderabad.

Mr. Ramesh Babu, received an over whelming inspiration from his elder brother to take up designing, and production planning. He underwent hardcore training in India and abroad to be able to support Mr. Chandrashekhara Rao, who is affectionately addressed as Mr. CSR by one and all, to take the company successfully forward. The brand Vilan gained more strength and wider acceptance for its uncompromising quality under the leadership of the two brothers.

There were constant trade enquiries from
different parts of the country because of Vilan’s high quality and reasonably low pricing. However, knowing the limitations of their resources they had to regretfully putdown such trade enquiries from across the Country. The Vilan administration realized, it is time to exceed the 100 Crores target to meet the demands of the discerning people of this country through a massive expansion through a proven experienced top notch professional Head. It was at this juncture they were able to identify Mr. K.P. Chackappan, the present Vice President Marketing, a management graduate of IIM Calcutta, the man who has created a revolution in the Undergarment Industry in India.

Mr. Chackappan successfully launched the Jockey Brand of undergarments in India, as its founding Vice President Marketing . He later joined Maxwell Industries Ltd, the manufacturer of VIP brand of undergarments and launched their prestigious premium brand Frenchie X. He has vast marketing experience and successful maiden launches of various products in India and abroad, to his credit. This gives the right assurance that Vilan products will shortly become a national phenomenon and the company will exceed the 100 Crore turnover milestone.