Raj & Kirit’s first entrepreneurial venture on Pico
Venus History
Started selling towels in small quantities
Car Aroma Supplies was an independent towel supplier to the car wash. They offered to purchase any towels we sourced from India. We contacted towel exporters in India and started importing towels to USA in limited quantities. Car Aroma Supplies was customer #1
Rented warehouse & Hertz trucks/vans
Rented 1,000 sq. ft. warehouse in Culver City, CA to stock imported towels
Rented Hertz trucks/vans to pick up bales of towels from ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach & San Pedro & deliver orders to local customers
Rented first office space
Rented first office space in North Hollywood and established Venus Traders to formalize the business (still used Culver City warehouse to stock inventory)
Venus Traders published its first price list
Rented 2,000 sq. ft. office & warehouse in Torrance, CA and hired the 1st employee to help in the warehouse
Established Venus Textiles, Inc.
Venus Traders re-incorporates as Venus Textiles, Inc. and starts to offer a wider breadth of textiles products
Venus Textiles, Inc moves to a larger building to accommodate growth
Rented 8,000 sq. ft. office & warehouse in Stanton, CA as Venus Textiles continued to grow and required more space
Venus Textiles partners with Milliken & Company
Raj & Kirit open the first 2,000 sq.ft. automated manufacturing center in Garden Grove to cut/sew/trim Signature by Milliken
Raj & Kirit purchase their first building
Purchased 1st building in Garden Grove (27,000 sq. ft.) and increased manufacturing activity via AKAB automated machinery
The Next Generation of the Patel Family
Venus Textiles moves to larger building (90,000 Sq. Ft.) in Huntington Beach, CA
Devanshi, Amisha, Nipun, Jeyur and Tapan (in front – from left to right)
The Next Generation of the Patel Family
Venus Asia ISO9001:2015 & ISO14001:2015 Certified
Started Venus Asia in Mumbai, India as global sourcing headquarters
Venus Group, Inc. officially incorporates
Purchased land in Foothill Ranch, CA & designed/constructed 170,000 sq. ft. global headquarters
1999 - Foothill Ranch Office Being Constructed
Venus Group – Hangzhou, China
Opened Venus Global office & showroom in Hangzhou, China for Asia sourcing
Venus Group 2003
Christmas Party 2004
Venus Office 2004
FHR Warehouse 2006
Selected as official supplier to Starwood Hotels & Resorts
Selected as an official supplier to Starwood Hotels & Resorts (now part of Marriott International, Inc.)
Christmas Party 2007
Venus Office Staff 2008
Venus Logo 2009
Performance Twill – Patent# US 8,186,390 B2
Received patent on ‘Performance Twill’ bed sheet, offering our customers 4x more washes on bed sheets before requiring replacement
Venus Group – Fort Lawn, SC
Opened 100,000 sq. ft. office & warehouse in Fort Lawn, South Carolina to establish manufacturing and distribution presence on Eastern Seaboard. ISO 9001:2015 Certified.
Governor Nikki Haley official press release: https://www.sccommerce.com/news/venus-group-inc-establishing-chester-county-operations
Launched Venus Ventures
Launched Venus Ventures, private capital fund, to provide capital investment to startup companies seeking to deliver solutions in alignment with our company’s tagline – “Smart Solutions For A Better World”
