Adamjee Group
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
- * Adamjee Jute Mills
- * Jute Fibers Ltd.
- * R. Sim & Co.
- Sugar
- * National Sugar Mills
- Textile
- * Orient Textile Mills
- * Meghna Textile Mills
- * Khulna Textile Mills
- Tea
- * National Tea Company Limited
- * Aroma Tea
- * Patrakola Tea Company
- * Adamjee Tea Gardens
- Cement
- * Assam Bengal Cement Company
- Insurance
- * Adamjee Insurance
- Other
- * Dhaka Vegetable Oil Mills
- * National Tubes
- * Dacca Tobacco Industries
- * Gammon East Pakistan Ltd.
- * Premier Laminations
- * Star Particle Board Mills
- * Adamjee Sons Ltd.
West Pakistan
- Adamjee Insurance, sold to Nishat Group in 2004
- Muslim Commercial Bank
- Orient Airways
- Adamjee Industries
- Adamjee Sugar Mills in Mianwali, sold to Fecto Group in 1975
- Adamjee Paper and Board Mills in Nowshera
- DDT Factory in Nowshera, factory closed in 1994