Karnafuli Group is one of the largest
Bangladeshi industrial
conglomerates. The industries under this conglomerate include port, shipping and logistics, media, health care, real estate, automobiles, finance, insurance etc. The Managing Director of the group is
Saber Hossain Chowdhury, an Awami League member of parliament and son of Hedayet Hossain Chowdhury who is also a director of
HRC Group
HRC Group is a large Bangladeshi 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 H ...
, another Bangladeshi conglomerate.
History
Karnafuli Group was established in 1954 by Hedayet Hossain Chowdhury.
The group is named after the
Karnaphuli
Karnaphuli ( bn, কর্ণফুলি ''Kôrnophuli''; also spelt Karnafuli), or Khawthlangtuipui (in Mizo language, Mizo, meaning "western river"), is the largest and most important river in Chattogram and the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Chatt ...
River.
Hedayet Hossain Chowdhury's grandson, Hamdan Hossain Chowdhury, is a director of the group.
In 2014, the group signed an agreement to distribute and service
Haojue motorcycles of China in Bangladesh. Karnaphuli Group,
Metro Group, and
Partex Star Group
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(
Partex Group
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History ...
) founded Sky Telecommunication which launched Zelta mobiles in 2015.
Karnaphuli Group is the only Bangladeshi group involved container shipping and owns 65 vessels. It operates Chittagong to Colombo and Chittagong to Singapore and Port Klang line.
In 2016, the group's partner Hanjin Shipping Lines, a South Korean company, declared bankruptcy in Bangladesh.
List of companies
Shipping and Logistics
* HR Lines Limited
* EasyFly Access Limited
* K&T Logistics Limited
Media
*
Bhorer Kagoj
''Bhorer Kagoj'' ( bn, দৈনিক ভোরের কাগজ ''Bhorer Kagoj'' "Dawn's Paper") is a major Bengali-language daily newspaper, published from Dhaka, Bangladesh. The newspaper is published in both print and online formats.
Hi ...
- Daily Bengali newspaper
* Diner Sheshey - evening Bengali newspaper
* The New Paper- English daily newspaper
*
Desh TV- Bengali TV channel
Healthcare
* Sobujmati Sheba
Real Estate
* Karnaphuli Garden City
Financials
* Republic Insurance Company Limited (RICL)
Telecommunication
* Voicetel
Trading
* Karnaphuli Works Limited
See also
*
List of companies of Bangladesh
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It is one of the emerging and growth-leading economies of the world. It is listed among the Next Eleven countries, it ...
References
External links
* {{Official website, https://www.karnaphuli.com
Conglomerate companies of Bangladesh
Companies based in Chittagong
1954 establishments in East Pakistan