In 1954, Mr R. Poruran Mudaliar started his first business in handloom sarees. He initially set up three weaving units to produce lungies in Kanchipuram. In 1969, he transformed his small-scale business into a retail operation and branded his lungies as RPM. Due to his passion and commitment, he expanded the business from three to thirty weaving units and introduced a new product line of cotton sarees based on his idea.
     

    In 1980, Mr E. Nagappan, the son of Mr Poruran and an MSc MPhil who had been working as a professor at Aditanar College, joined the family business after quitting his academic position. In 1985, he turned his focus to producing pure silk sarees, achieving significant success. He started with ten weaving units and rapidly expanded to forty.
    

    In 2000, Mr. Nagappan’s son, Mr. Sathish, who holds a BBA degree, entered the business and began serving various retail clients across Tamil Nadu. In 2007, his elder son, Mr Murugavel, a graduate in Textile Technology, also joined the business and took charge of production.

 
    A significant milestone was reached in 2018 when RPM launched a new division called RPM Garments, dedicated to lungies. Initially, they set up ten units for nightwear production. In 2019, they added another ten units, followed by twenty more in 2020. By 2022, the total had grown to sixty units.
      

     Currently, RPM is diversifying its product range to include ladies’ in-skirts, nighties, kids’ nighties, and kids’ cotton frocks. Additionally, the company is fulfilling third-party orders for school uniforms for various reputed institutions. They also added kids’ and teens’ casual wear.