List of companies in Ludhiana with contact details
Where Ludhiana's companies are, how to get a list with phone numbers and emails, and our Ludhiana business directory by industry and locality.
By Santosh Rani · Published · 5 min read
What Ludhiana makes, and where
Ludhiana is Punjab's largest city and its main industrial centre. Searches for industries in Ludhiana, or for an industrial area in Ludhiana, mostly come from suppliers, traders and service firms who want its units as customers. Most firms here are owner-run MSMEs, often family businesses that have made the same product for decades:
- Hosiery and knitwear: woollen sweaters, shawls, thermals, socks, T-shirts and tracksuits, made in knitting units across the city and sold through wholesalers to the whole of north India. Large yarn spinners are based here too.
- Bicycles and parts: India's main centre for bicycles, with big assemblers and hundreds of makers of frames, rims, spokes, chains, hubs and saddles.
- Auto and tractor parts: forgings, castings, gears, brake and suspension parts for vehicle and tractor makers across India.
- Machine tools, hand tools and fasteners: lathes, drilling machines, sewing machine parts, spanners, nuts and bolts, many from small workshops on Gill Road and around Miller Ganj.
- Trade: the old city's wholesale markets around Chaura Bazaar, grain and cloth traders, and showrooms along Ferozepur Road.
In Punjab, state industrial estates are called Focal Points. Ludhiana's main Focal Point, built in several numbered phases on the south-east side of the city near Dhandari Kalan, holds engineering, cycle parts, auto parts and textile units. Older Industrial Areas A and B lie closer to the centre, and an inland container depot at Dhandari Kalan handles export containers.
Free sources for Ludhiana firms, and their limits
- PSIEC (the Punjab Small Industries and Export Corporation) develops Focal Points and industrial estates across the state and handles plot allotments. Its records show estates and plots, not whom to call.
- The District Industries Centre in Ludhiana runs the state's MSME schemes and knows the active clusters.
- Trade associations for cycles and parts, knitwear, hand tools and auto parts, and the city's chambers of commerce, run events and keep member directories, mostly for members.
- MCA, GST and Udyam look-ups confirm a firm's status one name at a time. Punjab GSTINs start with 03. Most Ludhiana units are proprietorships or partnerships, so MCA alone misses them.
- Trade fair catalogues and old PDFs of Ludhiana industries are useful to read, but numbers change and few list an email address.
To confirm a GSTIN before you extend credit, use our guide to company and GST look-ups.
Our Ludhiana business directory
If you came here for a companies in Ludhiana list with phone numbers, start with the Ludhiana Business Directory: 48,987 businesses in the city. 90% of rows have a mobile number and 50% an email, 60% name a contact person, and 94% carry an address. Look at the 60 sample rows on the list page, or download the free Excel sample, before you pay ₹499 for the full file.
Ludhiana areas in the file
- Ludhiana Ho: 2,570 entries
- Civil Lines: 814 entries
- Model Town: 694 entries
- Pakhowal Road: 450 entries
- Focal Point: 430 entries
- G T Road: 424 entries
- Gill Road: 401 entries
- Ferozepur Road: 370 entries
Some labels are post office names and some areas are spelt more than one way, so filter on PIN code as well as area when you sort.
Ludhiana lists by trade
The Ludhiana page has every list for the city, 66 in all across 15 sectors. The biggest business lists:
- Website Owners 5,202 contacts · 99% email · 86% mobile ₹499
- Industrial Machinery & Equipment 3,517 contacts · 41% email · 91% mobile ₹499
- Retail Shops & Malls (General) 2,918 contacts · 13% email · 97% mobile ₹499
- Suppliers & Distributors 2,554 contacts · 25% email · 98% mobile ₹499
- Exporters 2,430 contacts · 84% email · 57% mobile ₹499
- Textiles & Fabrics 2,069 contacts · 47% email · 79% mobile ₹499
- Clothing & Fashion Stores 2,023 contacts · 28% email · 95% mobile ₹499
- eCommerce & Online Sellers 1,970 contacts · 61% email · 100% mobile ₹499
- Real Estate Agents & Developers 1,931 contacts · 19% email · 97% mobile ₹499
- Doctors & Clinics 1,460 contacts · 49% email · 90% mobile ₹499
- Automobile Dealers & Service Centres 1,428 contacts · 41% email · 86% mobile ₹499
- Steel, Metals & Minerals 1,423 contacts · 56% email · 82% mobile ₹499
- Electronics & Appliance Stores 1,396 contacts · 35% email · 96% mobile ₹499
- Beauty Parlours & Salons 1,144 contacts · 28% email · 93% mobile ₹499
- Tour & Travel Agents 1,059 contacts · 61% email · 95% mobile ₹499
There are lists of people working in Ludhiana too, for instance Purchase & Procurement Heads, Business Owners & Proprietors and Teachers.
Other Punjab cities with their own lists: Jalandhar, Amritsar, Patiala, Mohali, Zirakpur and Ambala. Jalandhar, an hour or so up the GT Road, is known for sports goods and hand tools.
Sellers who use a Ludhiana list
- Yarn, dye and knitting machine dealers, and label, button, zip and packaging suppliers for the knitwear units. Our textile companies guide covers this trade nationally.
- Steel tube, sheet and wire suppliers, paint and powder coating firms, and plating units for the cycle and parts makers.
- Pig iron, scrap and ferro-alloy suppliers for foundries and forging shops, and CNC machine and tooling dealers for machine shops.
- Transporters, freight forwarders and customs agents moving goods across India and to the ports.
- Banks, CA firms and export consultants who look after family-run MSMEs.
- FMCG and electronics distributors looking for retailers in the city and the towns around it.
How to approach Ludhiana businesses
- Sort by trade and area. Focal Point and Dhandari for engineering and parts, Gill Road and Miller Ganj for machine tools and spares, the old city for wholesale, Ferozepur Road and Model Town for showrooms and offices.
- Speak Punjabi or Hindi. Owners are most at ease in Punjabi, Hindi works everywhere, and many shop-floor workers come from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. For example: "Sat Sri Akal ji, this is Gurpreet from a powder coating unit at Focal Point. We coat cycle frames and handlebars for a few makers on Gill Road and collect from your gate. Who decides on job work at your unit?"
- Talk rates and credit early. Owners compare suppliers on price, credit period and reliability, and like to see a sample before a first order. Follow the call with a visit.
- Know the knitwear calendar. Woollen knitwear is made through spring and summer for the winter selling season, so suppliers of yarn and accessories do most of their business well before the cold sets in. Lohri, Baisakhi and Diwali slow work for a few days each.
- Keep to the rules. Check numbers against the DND rules before promotional calls or SMS.
Questions people ask
Which industries is Ludhiana known for?
Hosiery and woollen knitwear, bicycles and their parts, auto and tractor parts, machine tools, sewing machine parts, hand tools and fasteners. Yarn spinning, trade and services add many more firms. Our manufacturing companies guide compares Ludhiana with India's other hubs.
Where is the Focal Point in Ludhiana?
The main Focal Point lies on the south-east side of the city towards Dhandari Kalan, off the GT Road, and is divided into numbered phases. Industrial Areas A and B are older estates nearer the centre.
How many companies are there in Ludhiana?
No register gives a single figure, because most units are proprietorships and partnerships that never appear in company records. Our Ludhiana directory alone holds 48,987 businesses, and it still misses many small workshops. For the region around the state capital, see our guide to companies in Chandigarh.