Owner fo India’s largest state-of-the-art fabric processing facility, BRFL Textiles (BTPL), has expanded its workforce from 1,300 to over 2.000 employees within two months of raising private equity funding. The company has hired over 14 people in senior management roles across functions including a Chief Financial Officer, Processing In-Charge, Heads of various departments (HR, Designing & Product Development, Quality Assurance, IT, Compliance & Legal, Accounts & Finance and Taxation) and Senior Managers (in Sourcing, Sales, Marketing & Merchandizing), etc. The company has also introduced new employee focused initiatives including safety training, employee insurance assistance and an HR helpdesk to resolve employee queries.

Thorugh this expansion, BTPL aims to increase its annual processing capacity of 144 million meters (400,000 meters per day) over due course of time. Recently, the company completed an Rs 2.4 billion equity infusion from a consortium of marquee financial investors led by JM Financial India Fund II, Think Investments, etc.

BTPL was formed as a separate entity in August 2020 as part of a restructuring process undertaken by Bombay Rayon Fashions in which it hived-off its yarn dyeing & fabric processing units located in Tarapur. The company’s brands, including Bombay Rayon, BRFL, Linen Vogue, Giza Classe, Dickens & Browne and others, were also a part of the transaction.