December 1933
Mr V. Rajamoney founded M/s Sattur Original Match Company on December 16th 1933 at a small town in south India called SATTUR. He completed a B.A. degree in English Literature and worked at the West Indian Match Company in Kolkata for some time and the returned to Sattur. He started the first handmade match manufacturing unit in Sattur.
Mr V. Rajamoney later travelled to Kerala and started splints and veneers manufacturing units in Olovakkot and Pambady in the year 1942. He started to market his matches under the trademark Superior Light. He started to market throughout India. It was first supplied in the town of Churu in Rajasthan and is continued to market there since then which means 68 years. He was obsessed to always make good quality matches and creating markets with a long term vision.
Shri.V.Rajamoney, a Successful businessman, a man of profound industrial knowledge and pioneer in match industry in south India, interested himself in educational and public activities from his earlier life. The credit of manufacturing matches in the south especially in Sattur goes to him. His multifarious activities in promoting the cottage industry and his charitable disposition have won for his name and fame besides innumerable friends and admirers. As the secretary of the South India Swedish Match Manufactures Association, he had sponsored in solving several problems of the match industry. His establishment has given employment to more than 600 persons.
June 1955
Shri V.R.Palanisamy was the eldest son of Shri Rajamoney. He was a man of great perseverance and soft nature with profound knowledge of the match industry. He served many terms as the member of the Regional Advisory Committee of the Central Excise and created awareness among the match industry as many at that time had very less knowledge about the working of the Central Excise.
Rajeev is the eldest son of Shri Palanisamy. Rajeev is the proprietor of Sattur Original Match Company Unit R. Rajeev has been running the company by following the footsteps of his mentor Rajamoney.
We creatively design different varieties of matches. We are the only manufactures of TIN matches, which is made mainly for spiritual and kitchen use. Then we have Home matches which are also special in its category. Then we have 80 sticks matches with a special type of packing which is not available with any company in the industry. We have variety in all type of safety matches to cater to all type of markets.
From 2020 Sattur Original Match Company is becoming a fourth generation company. Being unique in the industry is our ultimate goal.We aim towards Exclusive Products with high quality standards and work to satisfy the customer's needs.
