Adamjee Group

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Adamjee Group
Company typeCorporate group
Founded1896
FounderHaji Dawood
Headquarters
Karachi
,
Pakistan
Key people
Adamjee Haji Dawood
Abdul Wahid Adamjee
Websiteadamjees.com

Adamjee Group (Urdu pronunciation: [ˈaː.dəm.dʒiː] AH-dum-jee) is a group of companies headquartered in Karachi, Pakistan. The group was previously headed by Sir Adamjee Haji Dawood.

As of 2007, it is unofficially estimated that the owners of Adamjee Group are among the top 40 wealthiest families in Pakistan.[1]

History

[edit | edit source]

Adamjee Group was founded by Haji Dawood in 1896.[2] The family holding company was formally registered as Adamjee Sons, Ltd. in Pakistan.[3] In 1964, Time described Gul Mohamed Adamjee as the jute king of Pakistan.[3] Initially originating as a jute and banking conglomerate, Adamjee later spreaded to other industries such as tea, textiles, matches, sugar, paper board, chemicals, engineering and insurance.[4]

Subsidiaries

[edit | edit source]

Enterprises under the umbrella of the group are:

  • Ad Power[5]
  • Panther Trading[6]
  • Commodities Trading[7]
  • Matual Trading Co.[8]
  • Adamjee Pharmaceuticals[9]
  • Coastal Enterprises[10]
  • Adamjee Diesel Engineering[11]
  • Pacific Multi Products[12]
  • Adamjee Engineering[13]
  • Chempro Pakistan[14]
  • Enesel Industries[15]
  • Sahara Buying Services[16]
  • Adamjee Automotive[17]
  • Adamjee Polymers Company[18]
  • Adamjee Durabuilt[19]
  • Adamjee Corporation[20]

Former subsidiaries

[edit | edit source]

East Pakistan

[edit | edit source]

Former enterprises which were based in East Pakistan are:[21][22]

  • Jute
  • Sugar
    • National Sugar Mills
  • Textile
    • Orient Textile Mills
    • Meghna Textile Mills
    • Khulna Textile Mills[23]
  • Tea
  • Cement
    • Assam Bengal Cement Company
  • Insurance
    • Adamjee Insurance
  • Other
    • Dhaka Vegetable Oil Mills
    • National Tubes (produced galvanized iron pipes and fittings)
    • Dacca Tobacco Industries[22] (now owned by Akij Group)[25]
    • Gammon East Pakistan Ltd. (a civil engineering and construction firm)
    • Premier Laminations (a company that produced polyethylene bags)
    • Star Particle Board Mills (now owned by Partex Group)[26]
    • Adamjee Sons Ltd. (A holding company which owned the shares of the group's subsidiaries along with properties, tea gardens, and stock in other corporations on behalf of the Adamjee family. It was nationalized by the Government of Bangladesh in 1971 and continues to be run as a state-owned enterprise today.)[27]

West Pakistan

[edit | edit source]

See also

[edit | edit source]

References

[edit | edit source]
  1. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  2. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  3. ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  4. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  5. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  6. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  7. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  8. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  9. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  10. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  11. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  12. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  13. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  14. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  15. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  16. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  17. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  18. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  19. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  20. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  21. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  22. ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  23. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  24. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  25. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[dead link]
  26. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  27. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  28. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  29. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  30. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  31. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
[edit | edit source]
Retrieved from "http://70.231.62.181/index.php?title=Adamjee_Group&oldid=1967627"