Safety Matches

Matches Box

Sivakasi is known throughout the world for safety matches production. 80% of India’s safety matches is produced here. The safety matches industry in Sivakasi is worth about Rs 500 crore. The market safety matches grows at the rate of 10% per annum.

About 3500 Match works are situated in and around Sivakasi. Nearly 30,000 persons are directly employed.

History of matchworks in Sivakasi
List of Match Factories

On This Day -
1969:  Paul McCartney and Linda Eastman are married in a civil ceremony at Marylebone Register Office in London.

1933:  President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the first of his radio "Fireside Chats."

1930:   India's Mohandas Gandhi began a defiant march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt and symbolic of his defiance of British rule in India.

1894:   Coca-Cola was sold in bottles for the first time.

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