Abdul Wahid Adamjee (born 1908) was a Pakistani industrialist.

Early life

Adamjee was born in 1908 in Rangoon,

Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

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. He completed his education in Burma. He was the eldest son of

Adamjee Haji Dawood Sir Adamjee Haji Dawood Bawany (30 June 1880 – 27 January 1948) was a Pakistani businessman and philanthropist who founded Adamjee Group. He was also an activist in the Pakistan Movement. Early life Adamjee Haji Dawood was born in 1880 in Jetp ...

, the founder of Adamjee Group.

Career

Adamjee joined the Adamjee Group in 1925, he worked in the match factory and rice mill of the group in Burma. From 1938 to 1948, he expanded the group in British India. He succeeded his father as the head of the Adamjee Group and Adamjee family, after his death on 27 January 1948. He expanded the Adamjee Group and played an important role in the industrialization of Pakistan. He founded the

Adamjee Jute Mills Adamjee Jute Mill was a jute mill in Bangladesh. It was established in Narayanganj in 1950 by the Adamjee Group. It was the second jute mill in East Pakistan (present day Bangladesh) after Bawa Jute Mill which was first Jute Mill in East Pakista ...

in Dacca, East Pakistan which was the largest Jute Mills in the world. He established Adamjee Tea Gardens in East Pakistan, then the largest tea fields in the world. In 1958, he was awarded the Hilal-e-Pakistan by the Government of Pakistan. He served as the chairman of Pakistan Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation. The Adamjee group was estimated to be worth more than 60 million dollar in 1971, more than half of which was lost when Bangladesh became an independent country.

Death

Adamjee died on 4 July 1972 in Karachi, Pakistan.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Adamjee, Abdul Wahid 1908 births 1972 deaths Memon people Pakistani philanthropists Pakistan Movement activists Businesspeople from Karachi Pakistani people of Gujarati descent Pakistani industrialists Gujarati people 20th-century philanthropists Recipients of Hilal-i-Pakistan