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Lakson Group
The Lakson Group ( ) is a group of companies headquartered in Karachi, Sindh. History It was founded in 1954 and is owned by the Lakhani family. Subsidiaries Listed * Century Insurance Company Limited, general insurance business * Century Paper and Board Mills Limited, producer of packaging boards * Colgate-Palmolive Pakistan, manufacture and sale of detergents, personal care, and other related products in PakistanCompany Overview of The Lakson Group on bloomberg.com website
Retrieved 31 January 2019
* Merit Packaging Limited, active in printing and packaging


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* Century Publications, incorporated in 1998, publishes Urdu and Sindhi daily newspapers ''Express'' and ''Daily Sindh Express'' **
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Corporate Group
A corporate group, company group or business group, also formally known as a group of companies, is a collection of parent and subsidiary corporations that function as a single economic entity through a common source of control. These types of groups are often managed by an account manager. The concept of a group is frequently used in tax law and accounting and (less frequently) company law to attribute the rights and duties of one member of the group to another or the whole. If the corporations are engaged in entirely different businesses, the group is called a conglomerate. The forming of corporate groups usually involves consolidation via mergers and acquisitions, although the group concept focuses on the instances in which the merged and acquired corporate entities remain in existence rather than the instances in which they are dissolved by the parent. The group may be owned by a holding company which may have no actual operations. Black Bear Development, conceptualized ...
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Fly Jinnah
Fly Jinnah or FJ is a first low-cost carrier (LCC) owned and operated jointly by Lakson Group of Pakistan and Air Arabia Group of the United Arab Emirates. The joint venture was announced on 3 September 2021. The airline is based in Karachi and currently serves five domestic destinations. Iqbal Ali Lakhani is the airline's current chairman. The airline started domestic flight operations on 31 October 2022, when its first flight took off from Jinnah International Airport in Karachi and landed at Islamabad International Airport in Islamabad. In 2024, Fly Jinnah along with Airblue was one of the contenders interested in acquiring Pakistan's national flag carrier, Pakistan International Airlines. International operations After completing one year of satisfactory domestic flights in October 2023, Fly Jinnah has been given permission by the Pakistani government to operate on international routes. This decision was taken by the Federal Cabinet on the recommendation of the Ministr ...
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Conglomerate Companies Established In 1954
Conglomerate or conglomeration may refer to: * Conglomerate (company) * Conglomerate (geology) * Conglomerate (mathematics) In popular culture: * The Conglomerate (American group), a production crew and musical group founded by Busta Rhymes ** Conglomerate (record label), a hip hop label founded by Busta Rhymes * The Conglomerate (Australian group), a jazz quartet See also * Conglomerate Ridge Conglomerate Ridge () is a ridge, long, located east-southeast of Mount Bursik in the Soholt Peaks, Heritage Range, Ellsworth Mountains of Antarctica. The ridge trends northwest–southeast and rises to about . It was so named from the congl ..., in the Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica * ConGlomeration (convention) {{disambiguation ...
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Companies Based In Karachi
A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of legal people, whether natural, juridical or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common purpose and unite to achieve specific, declared goals. Over time, companies have evolved to have the following features: "separate legal personality, limited liability, transferable shares, investor ownership, and a managerial hierarchy". The company, as an entity, was created by the state which granted the privilege of incorporation. Companies take various forms, such as: * voluntary associations, which may include nonprofit organizations * business entities, whose aim is to generate sales, revenue, and profit * financial entities and banks * programs or educational institutions A company can be created as a legal person so that the company itself has limited liability as members perform or fail to discharge their duties according to the publicly declared incorporation pu ...
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Conglomerate Companies Of Pakistan
Conglomerate or conglomeration may refer to: * Conglomerate (company) * Conglomerate (geology) * Conglomerate (mathematics) In popular culture: * The Conglomerate (American group), a production crew and musical group founded by Busta Rhymes ** Conglomerate (record label), a hip hop label founded by Busta Rhymes * The Conglomerate (Australian group), a jazz quartet See also * Conglomerate Ridge Conglomerate Ridge () is a ridge, long, located east-southeast of Mount Bursik in the Soholt Peaks, Heritage Range, Ellsworth Mountains of Antarctica. The ridge trends northwest–southeast and rises to about . It was so named from the congl ..., in the Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica * ConGlomeration (convention) {{disambiguation ...
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Lakson Group
The Lakson Group ( ) is a group of companies headquartered in Karachi, Sindh. History It was founded in 1954 and is owned by the Lakhani family. Subsidiaries Listed * Century Insurance Company Limited, general insurance business * Century Paper and Board Mills Limited, producer of packaging boards * Colgate-Palmolive Pakistan, manufacture and sale of detergents, personal care, and other related products in PakistanCompany Overview of The Lakson Group on bloomberg.com website
Retrieved 31 January 2019
* Merit Packaging Limited, active in printing and packaging


Unlisted

* Century Publications, incorporated in 1998, publishes Urdu and Sindhi daily newspapers ''Express'' and ''Daily Sindh Express'' **
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List Of Companies Of Pakistan
Pakistan is a country in South Asia. It is a developing country and its economy is considered to be semi-industrialized, with centres of growth along the Indus River. For further information on the types of business entities in this country and their abbreviations, see " Business entities in Pakistan". Notable firms This list includes notable companies with primary headquarters located in the country. The industry and sector follow the Industry Classification Benchmark taxonomy. Organizations that have ceased operations are included and noted as defunct. , - File:Pakistan Chrome Mines20120126 16100237 0003.jpg, Surface mining in Sindh. File:Expo Center Lahore.JPG, Expo Centre Lahore. File:Emporium Mall.jpg, Emporium Mall. File: ...
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Lakson Tobacco
Philip Morris Pakistan, formerly known as Lakson Tobacco Company, is a Pakistani tobacco manufacturing company which is a subsidiary of Philip Morris International. It is headquartered in Karachi, Pakistan. The company is involved in the manufacturing and sale of cigarettes and tobacco products. It is the second-largest tobacco company in Pakistan after Pakistan Tobacco Company. History Philip Morris Pakistan was founded in 1969 as a joint venture between Lakson Group, Philip Morris International, and Rothmans International. It was then known as Lakson Tobacco Company as 51 percent of the shareholding was held by Lakhani family. Two years later, in 1971, it was listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange. In 1997, Premier Tobacco was merged into Lakson Tobacco Company. Premier Tobacco was founded in 1952 by SA Samad as a joint venture with Philip Morris and Rothmans International. Premier Tobacco became a listed company on the Karachi Stock Exchange in 1955. In 1984, Samad sold his con ...
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Tetley
Tetley is an English beverage manufacturer founded in 1837 in Yorkshire. It is the largest company of tea in the United Kingdom and Canada, and the second-largest in the United States by volume. Since 2000, Tetley has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Consumer Products (formerly Tata Global Beverages), making it the second-largest manufacturer of teas in the world, after Unilever. History In 1822, brothers Joseph and Edward Tetley sold salt from a pack horse in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England. They started to sell tea and were so successful they set up as "Joseph Tetley & Co." tea merchants in 1837. Relocating to London in 1856, they formed "Joseph Tetley & Company, Wholesale Tea Dealers", in partnership with Joseph Ackland. In 1952, in an early example of cross promotion, Petula Clark's single "Anytime Is Tea Time Now" was used to advertise Tetley on Radio Luxembourg. Tetley was the first company to sell tea in tea-bags in the United Kingdom in 1953. In 1989, fo ...
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Titan Company
Titan Company Limited is an Indian company that mainly manufactures fashion accessories such as jewellery, watches and eyewear. Part of the Tata Group and started as a joint venture with Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation, TIDCO, the company has its corporate headquarters in Electronic City, Bangalore, and registered office in Hosur, Tamil Nadu. Titan Company commenced operations in 1984 under the name Titan Watches Limited. In 1994, Titan diversified into jewellery with Tanishq and subsequently into eyewear with Titan Eyeplus. In 2005, it launched its youth fashion accessories brand Fastrack (fashion accessories), Fastrack. Titan is the largest branded jewellery maker in India by value, with a 6% market share as of 2022. More than 80% of its total revenue comes from the jewellery segment. As of 2019, it is also the fifth-largest watch manufacturer in the world. History 1984–1990 Titan Company Limited was inaugurated on 26 July 1984 under the name Titan Watches Li ...
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Toblerone
Toblerone ( , ) is a Swiss chocolate brand owned by Mondelez International (originally Kraft Foods Inc, Kraft Foods). Until 2022, it was produced exclusively in Bern, Switzerland, when a smaller, limited part of the portfolio began production in Bratislava, Slovakia. Toblerone is known for its distinctive shape as a series of joined triangular prisms inspired by the Matterhorn mountain and lettering engraved in the chocolate. "Toblerone" is a portmanteau of "Tobler", the surname of its co-founder Theodor Tobler, and "''Turrón#Italian torrone, torrone''", the Italian language, Italian word for nougat. The company was independent from 1899 until 1970, then merged with Suchard, then with Jacobs (coffee), Jacobs as Jacobs Suchard, then acquired by Kraft Foods, which has been renamed to Mondelez International in 2012. History The Tobler chocolate factory was founded in 1899 by Emil Baumann (1880–1960) & Theodor Tobler (1876–1941) in Bern. At the time, the Swiss chocolate in ...
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