The House of Stanes. A proud lineage that began way back in 1861, with Sir Robert Stanes. The organization was founded as a planting company & coffee curing works were installed in a temporary workshop acquired from the Madras Railway Company, Coimbatore. This marked the beginning of an Enterprise a beginning of greater things to come,expansion of plantation holdings; diversification into Fertilizer mixing (1890); Automobile Workshop; ..... and many more growth areas.