Product: Natural home decorative accessories, home furnishings and eco friendly packaging solutions
Brand: ROPE
Industry: Manufacturing
Location: Tamil Nadu
Rural Opportunities Production Enterprise (ROPE) is a for-profit social enterprise, based out of Tamil Nadu. ROPE manufactures natural products from rural materials and rural skills. Focusing mostly on handlooms and handmade products like home decorative merchandise. ROPE supplies its products to international brands like Walmart and IKEA and is planning to enter into direct contracts with them. Capitalising on the growing need for natural and eco friendly products worldwide, ROPE has provided employment to 500 rural artisans since its inception in December, 2007 and plans to generate another 2000 odd employment opportunities in five years. ROPE is included in our list of startups to bet on because of its ability to impact the lives of the poorest of the poor and to get their creations to those on the other side of the economic spectrum.
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Founder: Sreejith N N |
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Co-founder: Patrick Fischer |
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Investors: IIT Madras Rural Technology and Business Incubator, Patrick Fischer, NRDC and Villgro Innovations Foundation |
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Mentors: Prof Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Mr. Paul Basil, Mr. Kunal R Sachdev, Dr. Aarti Kawlra |
| Key Clients/Customers: Ramesh Flowers, IIT Madras, Fab India, CWithington New York, Deco de trend, FUA Window Covering Texas |
| Top-Line: INR Rs 1.35 crores |
| URL: www.ropeinternational.com |
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Rural Opportunities Production Enterprises Team |
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