India's Most Innovative Companies

Printer Print Email Email
FabIndia
India\'s Most Innovative Companies
A platform to bring in the products that are made from traditional techniques, skills and hand-based process to the world's growing urban middle class. FabIndia connects more than 40,000 craft-based rural producers to modern urban markets, thereby creating a base for skilled, sustainable and employment and preserving India's traditional handicrafts in the process. Through its website and 136 retail stores, it sells clothing and products for the home, all of which are sourced from villages across India. FabIndia was established in 1960 by John Bissell, an American working for the Ford Foundation. FabIndia established "The FabIndia School" in 1992 in Pali district of Rajasthan, which is a co-educational, senior secondary school with more than 600 students including 40percent girls who are provided with a subsidized tuition fees and offers them scholarships.