Type Public limited company Founder Rahman brothers Founded 1972 Parent organization BEXIMCO Group | Industry Conglomerate Headquarters Dhaka, Bangladesh Number of employees 55,000 | |
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Key people Salman F Rahman (Vice Chairman) Products Aviation
Banking
Ceramics
Construction
Electric power generation
Fashion
Fisheries
Hotels
Information technology
Jute
Media
Petroleum products
Pharmaceuticals
Real estate
Textiles Owner Bangladesh Export Import Company Limited Subsidiaries Shinepukur Ceramics, Yellow | ||
The Bangladesh Export Import Company, commonly known by its trade name Beximco (DSE : BEXIMCO CSE: BEXIMCO), is a multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It was founded in 1953. Beximco is Bangladesh's largest conglomerate, with the largest market capitalization on the country's stock market. Beximco's subsidiaries export products to 103 countries worldwide. It has retail outlets in South Asia and Eastern Europe.
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Beximco operates one of the largest integrated textile production businesses in Asia. It is also a major global exporter of jute yarn. Its chief manufacturing base is the Beximco Industrial Park in Gazipur, Bangladesh. Beximco Pharma, the group's pharmaceutical producer, was the first Bangladeshi firm to list on the London Stock Exchange.
History
The company was founded by brothers A. S. F. Rahman and Salman F Rahman in 1972, soon after the founding of the Bangladeshi Republic. Their family was earlier engaged in the jute industry of East Pakistan, which once the world's largest jute producer and exporter. The family business was affected by a nationalization program in Bangladesh during the early 1970s. However, with free market reforms in the late 1970s and 1980s, the family regained many of their businesses.
Since the 1970s, Beximco has been a pioneer in Bangladeshi industry, including the modern textile sector, pharmaceuticals, ceramics and information and communication technology.
In 2005, Beximco Pharma became the first Bangladeshi company to list on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange. It also opened its first overseas retail outlet with the launch of the Yellow clothing brand in Karachi, Pakistan. Yellow has since expanded to several Bangladeshi and Pakistani cities. In 2009, Shinepukur Ceramics opened a showroom in Moscow, Russia. In 2010, the company acquired stakes in several major Bangladeshi businesses, including IFIC Bank, GMG Airlines, The Independent newspaper, Singer Bangladesh and Unique Hotels and Resorts.
The company is considered to enjoy close connections with the Awami League, with Salman F Rahman serving as an advisor on private sector development to the League's president Sheikh Hasina, the current Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
Key officials
Subsidiaries
The conglomerate compromises four public traded and seventeen privately held companies, some of which are listed below.
Debt
According to an article in The International New York Times, Beximco said that it owed US$800 million to Bangladeshi banks. An American embassy cable released by Wikileaks described Salman F Rahman as "allegedly one of Bangladesh's biggest loan defaulters". He was arrested for fraud by the military-backed interim government in 2008. Since 2009, the Bangladesh Bank has allowed Beximco to restructure its loan repayments. The group has alleged that the previous Bangladesh Nationalist Party government tried to target it for Salman F Rahman's links's with the Awami League.
Stock manipulation
Beximco faces accusations of being one of the 60 primary parties involved in the 2011 Bangladesh share market scam.