William Goodacre & Sons India Ltd is part of the Karan Group companies. Karan Group is the world's largest producers of Coir mats, mattings and rugs. In addition, Karan Group occupies a niche in the area of unique Jacquard woven rugs and mattings made on imported Jacquard looms. We have leveraged on our 120 years of weaving experience in Coir and have introduced a range of fine Sisal, Jute and Seagras floor coverings. The Karan range of Coir, Sisal, Jute and Seagrass are sold in over 100 countries. We are also the largest producers of Rubber mats in India. Karan Group is headquartered in Alleppey (Kerala State) with 7 manufacturing and 6 warehousing facilities spread over the states of Kerala and Tamilnadu.

Known as an innovative developer of new natural fiber floor-coverings, Karan Group introduces exciting new products plus hundreds of new designs in its continuing lines of products. Karan Group has been widely accepted as the indisputable leaders in quality and technical know-how for the preparation, weaving and finishing of Natural fiber floor coverings. Some of the important achievements of Karan Group include:

?First and still the only Asian company to have Jacquard looms from 0.45M all the way to 4.0M - 1969
?First Vinyl backed coir mat production unit in Asia - 1991
?First Computerized broad-looms in India for weaving Coir/Jute/Sisal - 1995
?First Coir based Wall covering unit - 1997
?First unit worldwide (Cocoplast, a unit of our sister company M/s Kerala Balers Ltd.) for the production of Vinyl backed Coir to be recommended for ISO9002 certification

Our products are (or have) carried by some of the leading retailers and catalogs. Our distributors sell a substantial volume through independent retailers, and garden-centers too.

Although, Karan Group has been able to maintain the status as the largest producer of Coir products, we constantly try to improve upon our performances by introducing innovative products and providing superior customer service.