The Hyderabad Deccan Cigarette Factory was established in 1930 at

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a suburb of

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by Janab Mohammad Abdus Sattar. The factory also known as Golconda Factory owns ''Golconda'' brand of cigarette. The road junction ''Golconda X Roads'' is named after then popular brand manufactured by this company. The factory which used to manufacture the popular ''Golconda'' brand and ''Amar'' brand of cigarettes, is now a contract manufacturer of cigarettes for

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. Mr. Sattar's son-in-law,

Shah Alam Khan Nawab Shah Alam Khan (1921-2017) was an Indian industrialist, educationist and cultural connoisseur from Hyderabad, India. The main commercial venture he ran was the Hyderabad Deccan Cigarette Factory. He was also the chairman of the Sultan A ...

had been running the factory since 1946. The factory in its present form as a privately held company was incorporated in September 1972.

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