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Adamjee Group ( ) 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.

History

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

Subsidiaries

Enterprises under the umbrella of the group are:

  • Ad Power

  • Panther Trading

  • Commodities Trading

  • Matual Trading Co.

  • Adamjee Pharmaceuticals

  • Coastal Enterprises

  • Adamjee Diesel Engineering

  • Pacific Multi Products

  • Adamjee Engineering

  • Chempro Pakistan

  • Enesel Industries

  • Sahara Buying Services

  • Adamjee Automotive

  • Adamjee Polymers Company

  • Adamjee Durabuilt

  • Adamjee Corporation

Former subsidiaries

East Pakistan

Former enterprises which were based in East Pakistan are:

Jute

Sugar

  • National Sugar Mills

Textile

  • Orient Textile Mills

  • Meghna Textile Mills

  • Khulna Textile Mills

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 (now owned by Akij Group)

  • 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)

  • 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.)

West Pakistan

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