Raymond's denim story began in 1996; focusing on quality, innovation and the creation of exclusive products & designs that have always caught the eye of some of the world's leading jeanswear brands as well as making us amongst the top producers of specialty ring denim in India with a 60% market share.

In August 2006, we entered into a 50:50 Joint Venture with European denim major, UCO NV to form a global denim powerhouse - Raymond UCO Denim Pvt. Ltd. engaged in the business of manufacturing and marketing of denim fabrics.

Raymond UCO Denim is a formidable combination of strengths in product innovation and design and a strong manufacturing back end of manufacturing flexibilities especially in dyeing and finishing. The key strengths of this joint venture company are:

• Single entity having manufacturing facilities spread across two continents - the Europe & Asia with a combined denim fabric capacity of 47 million metres per annum and a vast global marketing network
• Presence in 3 dominant denim markets – US and Europe which consist of 60% of the world denim market and Asia, the market of the future
• Increased width of merchandise to cater to the requirements of individual markets
• Diversification of the customer base for both partners
• Greater cost efficiency, from manufacturing facilities to economies of scale from global sourcing of cotton, yarn, dyes & chemicals, spares and consumables
• Global production local service

UCO is a Belgian textile group with interests in denim, flat, filament fabric and yarns. It produces and sells a diversified collection of denim for leisure wear, focusing on innovative high value added fabrics. UCO is a leading denim player in Europe specially known for colour denim with a 70% share.

Raymond UCO Denim will move closer to its customers by increasing the flexibility of operations and servicing the global sourcing requirements of large international brands in their markets.