HRC Group is a large
Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...
i industrial
conglomerates. The industries under this conglomerate include media, agriproducts, tea, real estate, finance, shipping etc. The Chairperson of the group is
Sayeed Hossain Chowdhury, brother of
Saber Hossain Chowdhury
Saber Hossain Chowdhury (born 10 September 1961) is a politician from Bangladesh and the incumbent member of Parliament in Bangladesh from the Dhaka-9 constituency. He was the president of Inter-Parliamentary Union from 2014 to 2017. He is the f ...
, an Awami League member of parliament and son of entrepreneur Hedayet Hossain Chowdhury, founder of
Karnaphuli Group, another Bangladeshi conglomerate.
History
The group established on 14 March 1991 as Shipping Agency for Chittagong and Mongla ports by entrepreneur Sayeed Hossain Chowdhury.
Since then it has expanded to more than 20 subsidiaries.
On 10 December 1998, two security guards of the group were killed during the robbery at the HRC Group headquarters in Karwan Bazar, Dhaka.
In July 2008, the chairperson of the group, Sayeed Hossain Chowdhury, was arrested by joint forces on charges of money laundering and tax evasion. He received bail on 28 August 2008.
The Sponsor director of HRC Group, Farzana Chowdhury, was elected vice-chairperson in June 2009.
In July 2020, Chairperson of the HRC Group Sayeed Hossain Chowdhury was removed from the post of Chairperson of One Bank Limited by Bangladesh Bank due to subsidiaries of HRC Group defaulting on loans from various banks.
List of companies
Shipping and Logistics
* HRC Shipping Limited
* HRC Freight Limited
* HRC Travels Limited
* Travel Wise Limited
* Arkan Express Limited
Media
*
Jaijaidin
''Jaijaidin'' ( bn, যায়যায়দিন '' Jaejaedin'') is a Bengali-language daily published from Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Editor
In Bangladesh, ''Jaijaidin'' was published and edited by Shafik Rehman, but he lost the editorship of ''Ja ...
- Daily Bengali newspaper
* Protichitra - Weekly Bengali newspaper
*
New Age
New Age is a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs which rapidly grew in Western society during the early 1970s. Its highly eclectic and unsystematic structure makes a precise definition difficult. Although many scholars conside ...
- English daily newspaper
*
''Holiday'' Weekly English newspaper
Real Estate
* HRC Properties Ltd.
* Hamid Properties Limited
Agro-products
* HRC Dairies Limited
* HRC Agrocom
* HRC Land Limited (Clevedon Tea Estate and Dildarpur Tea Estate)
* HRC Products Limited producing Clevedon, Clone, and Premier branded tea.
Manufacturing
* HRC Lighting Limited
* HRC Lamps Limited
IT
* Information Services Network Limited which was the first Bangladeshi Private ISP as Bangla.net
Finance
*
One Bank Limited
ONE Bank Limited (OBL) ( bn, ওয়ান ব্যাংক লিমিটেড) is a private sector commercial bank in Bangladesh. It is in the business of taking deposits from public through various saving schemes and lending the fund in v ...
*
Lanka Bangla Finance Limited
*
Bangladesh General Insurance Company Limited
* National Housing Finance and Housing Limited
See also
*
List of companies of Bangladesh
References
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External links
Group information
Conglomerate companies of Bangladesh
Companies based in Dhaka
1991 establishments in Bangladesh