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Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Limited (KSDL) is an Indian company, owned by the Government of Karnataka, that manufacturers personal care products including Mysore Sandal Soap. It was founded as Government Sandalwood Oil Factory in 1916 by sosale garalapuri shastri and M. Visvesvaraya for extracting and exporting sandalwood oil . [ 1 ]
Sosale Garalapury Sastry (November 1899 – 22 September 1955) was an Indian industrial chemist known for his work on the manufacture of sandalwood soap through the establishment of the Mysore soap factory in Bangalore. This earned him the nickname of Soap Sastry. He also served as a director of industries and commerce in Mysore State.
It is a tourist attraction, and a popular place to take photos. [6] The market was constructed in 1886. [7] It was initially a weekly market. [6] The market was built above the Dewan Poornaiah Canal that supplied drinking water to Mysore Palace. [1] [5] It was named in 1925 after Dodda Devaraja Wadeyar. [1] [5] It is also known as Dodda market. [6]
Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar's association with Yeshwantrao Ghorpade led to common meetings, usually spent on hunting, and cup of tea in the outskirts of his Bangalore Palace. which was a small village and had the proximity of Mysore sandal soap factory. The conversation went late into nights, which made it difficult to head back to Palace.
DSI is the leading footwear manufacturer in Sri Lanka, having established the first shoe manufacturing plant on the Island in 1962. Its subsidiaries in this area include; D Samson Industries (Pvt) Ltd; Samson Manufacturers (Pvt) Ltd
Sandal Soap Factory is an elevated metro station on the North-South corridor of the Green Line of Namma Metro serving the nearby Orion Mall area of Bengaluru, India. It acquires its name from the factory of the Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Limited situated nearby. It was opened to the public on 1 March 2014. [1] [2]
The company started when Otara Gunewardene began selling factory surplus garments and apparel from her car boot to family and friends in 1989. [5] [6] [7]Gunewardene registered Odel (the name is based on her own name, Otara Del Gunawardene [5]) as a private limited liability company on 31 October 1990 [7] [8] and the company opened its first 37 m 2 (400 sq ft) store on Dickmans Road in Colombo.
Barefoot currently has five weaving centres in Sri Lanka, run by the weavers, using designs by Sansoni and the Barefoot design team. [ 4 ] The company's flagship store, on Galle Road in Colombo, which opened in the early 1970s, is housed in a collection of buildings, centred on an old 1920s town house.