Prominent industrialist and director of the Paragon Group of Companies K U Thomas passed away on 5.2.2012. He was 90. Thomas, who hailed from the Koduvirachirayil house at Thiruvarppu, is survived by four sons and two daughters. His wife Susan Thomas had died earlier. Thomas, along with his brother K U Sacaria and brother-in-law P V Abraham, launched the Paragon Rubber Industries at Kumaranalloor, Kottayam, in 1973. The firm that had a small-scale rubber footwear manufacturing unit at the time of establishment has grown to become one of the biggest footwear manufacturing companies in the country.
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