Incorporated in the year 1897 as a Public Limited Company, Century Textiles and Industries Limited had only one industrial unit – Cotton Textile Mills till 1951. Since then the company has made rapid progress in widely diverse fields. At present, the company is a trendsetter in cotton textiles and also has a remarkable presence in the yam, denim, viscose filament rayon yam, tyrecords, caustic soda, sulphuric acid, salt, cement, and pulp and paper Industries.

In 2008, the company added to its fold, a vertically-integrated textile plant, Biria Century at Jhagadia, Bharuch, in the state of Gujara!. This is a fully composite cotton textile plant from blow room to made-ups, stretching over an area of 100 acres with an abundant supply of water.