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Royal Thai (Thailand Carpet Manufacturing / TCM Corporation)

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Made by: Srivikorn family
Date: founded 1967
Place: Bangkok
Held by: Royal Thai (Thailand Carpet Manufacturing / TCM Corporation)
Themes: Companies & modern tufting, Global diffusion of tufting, Woven carpet

View at the source Cited in chapter 7, note 20

Cite this source

Srivikorn family. “Royal Thai (Thailand Carpet Manufacturing / TCM Corporation),” founded 1967. Royal Thai (Thailand Carpet Manufacturing / TCM Corporation). royalthai.com/our-heritage.

Research notes

Set up in 1967 by the Srivikorn family with Hong Kong and Philippine carpet makers; according to its parent's timeline it first sold carpets in Thailand under the "Tai Ping" brand, began exporting as "Royal Thai" in 1972, listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand in 1978 (TCMC) and later bought Tai Ping's commercial carpet business, including the factory of Carpets International Thailand (CIT), Tai Ping's Thai hand-tufting plant. Makes hand-tufted (tufting gun) and Axminster carpet, mainly for hotels. Why it matters: shows the Tai Ping hand-tufting model spreading to Southeast Asia; Tai Ping's own filings list CIT as one of its two hand-tufted production sites. Dates: 1967 consistent; year of the Tai Ping commercial-business purchase not found. Mostly company sources. Other pages with images: https://www.royalthai.com/blogs/chronicle-a24 Independent sources: https://tcm-corporation.com/en/corporate-our-history (parent company) · https://eboss.co.nz/library/jacobsen/royal-thai-axminster-carpets · https://www.hkexnews.hk/listedco/listconews/sehk/2002/0514/00146/F106.pdf (Tai Ping filing naming CIT) Research note (Oct 2026): facts taken from search-result summaries; the pages themselves weren't opened. Check the cited pages before quoting.