Dewan Farooque Motors Limited ( ur, ) is a
Pakistani automobile manufacturer based in
Karachi
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,
Pakistan
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.
The major activities by the company are assembling, manufacturing and sale of vehicles.
In 2016, the company agreed to resume production of vehicles of
India
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n multinational
Mahindra & Mahindra
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's
South Korea
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based subsidiary
SsangYong
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, as Daehan-Dewan at its assembly plant in
Sujawal
Sujawal ( ur, ), town is headquarter of Sujawal district of Sindh. Previously, it was Sub Divisional Headquarter of Sujawal Sub Division of Thatta District, Sindh, Pakistan. The Government of Sindh has granted Sujawal the status of a distric ...
.
History
Dewan Farooque Motors Limited was incorporated on 28 December 1998.
Dewan Farooque partnered with Korean brands like
Hyundai Hyundai is a South Korean industrial conglomerate ("chaebol"), which was restructured into the following groups:
* Hyundai Group, parts of the former conglomerate which have not been divested
** Hyundai Mobis, Korean car parts company
** Hyundai ...
and
Kia
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to produce its first car on January 15, 2000. The company received an extraordinary response especially for its Hyundai Santro and Hyundai Shahzore models. Company sales grew well until 2008 when it faced various challenges. In 2009, automobile production stopped. After a gap of three years, Dewan Farooque Motors produced a few hundred cars in fiscal year 2014 and 2015 based on its old inventory. Dewan Farooque Motors in October 2016 announced that the company would start assembling vehicles in 2017 again.
On 19 January 2018, Dewan Farooque Motors announced it has received approval for its Brownfield plant from the Engineering Development Board and is expected to resume vehicle production from February 2018. On February 25, 2018 Dewan launched a cargo pickup truck under the popular ''Shehzore'' nameplate in collaboration wit
Daehan Motors(Vietnam).
The
market capital of the company is PKR 579,913,310. The
free float
In the context of stock markets, the public float or free float represents the portion of shares of a corporation that are in the hands of public investors as opposed to locked-in shares held by promoters, company officers, controlling-interest inv ...
is 40%.
They are currently showing as a defaulter in Pakistan Stock Exchange
which means they are not doing well in Business.
Products
Shehzore''(Light Utility Truck)''
See also
*
Yousuf Dewan Companies
The Yousuf Dewan Companies (YDC) () is a conglomerate company based in Karachi, Pakistan. It is currently owned by the former Sindh Finance Minister Dewan Mohammad Yousuf Farooqui. It is previously known as Dewan Mushtaq Group.
History
The cong ...
References
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