Bashundhara Group

Bashundhara Group (Ahmed Akbar Sobhan, is the founder and chairman of Bashundhara Group.[4]) began in 1987 as real estate venture. After its first successful project, Bashundhara invested in new fields, including manufacturing, industry and trading. More enterprises were established in the early 1990s; these included cement, paper, pulp, tissue paper and steel production, as well as LP Gas bottling and distribution. On 4 February 2014, The Bangladesh Supreme Court ordered Bashundhara Group officials to surrender before it on a tax evasion case filed by the caretaker government.[5] On 19 December 2011, Sobhan was sued for 'fraud' by Mohammad Shahjahan over the price of land in Bashundhara.[6] Bashundhara received permission from Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority to set up two specialized economic zones in Keraniganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh.[7] In 2020, Bashundhara invested $143.7 million to build the largest bitumen plant in Bangladesh. This factory was intended to aid the country in becoming self-sufficient in bitumen production.[8] In 2022, Bashundhara invested $546 million into creating Bangladesh's first gold refinery on 470 acres of land near the Dhaka-Purbachal highway [9]

Bashundhara Group now operates over 50 concerns:

1. East West Property Development (Pvt) Limited[10]
2. Meghna Cement Mills Limited[11]
3. Bashundhara Shipping Lines Limited[12]
4. Bashundhara Shipping Limited
5. Bashundhara Logistics Limited[13]
6. Bashundhara Horticulture Limited[12]
7. Bashundhara Chemical Industries Limited[12]
8. Bashundhara Trading Company Limited[12]
9. Bashundhara International Trade Center Limited[12]
10. Bashundhara Multi Trading Limited
11. Bashundhara General Trading LLC Dubai
12. Bashundhara Employment Services
13. Bashundhara Electricity Limited[12]
14. Bashundhara Infrastructure Development Limited[12]
15. Bashundhara Import Export Limited[12]
16. Bashundhara Agricultural Products Limited[12]
17. Bashundhara Multi Agricultural Company Limited[12]
18. Bashundhara Multi Paper Industries Limited[12]
19. Bashundhara Amusement Park Limited[12]
20. Bashundhara Oil and Gas Company Limited[12]
21. Bashundhara Multipurpose Port Limited[12]
22. Bashundhara Textile Mills Limited[12]
23. Bashundhara Airways Limited[12]
24. Bashundhara Multi Food Products Limited[12]
25. Bashundhara Technologies Limited[12]
26. Bashundhara Paper Mills Limited[14]
27. Bashundhara Fine Paper Limited[15]
28. Bashundhara Pulp & Board Mills Limited[15]
29. Bashundhara LP Gas Limited[16]
30. Bashundhara City Development Limited[17]
31. Bashundhara Steel Complex Limited[18]
32. Bashundhara Industrial Complex Limited[19]
33. Bashundhara Steel And Engineering Limited[20]
34. Bashundhara Multi Steel Industries[21]
35. Bashundhara Foundation[22]
36. Bashundhara Convention Center[23]
37. Bashundhara Dredging Company Limited[24]
38. Bashundhara Technical Institute[25]
39. Bashundhara Telecommunications Network Limited[26]
40. Bashundhara Food and Beverage Industries Limited[27]
41. Sundarban Industrial Complex Limited[28]
42. Bashundhara Cement Industries Limited[29]
43. Bashundhara Pre-Fabricated Building Manufacturing Industries[21]
44. Dhaka Multi Agricultural Complex Limited
45. Sea Real Estate Developers Limited
46. East West Media Group[30]
47. Bashundhara Kings
48. Rangpur Riders
49. Kebab Turki Baba Rafi (Bangladesh)
50. Toggi Services Limited[31]
51. T Sports
52. Bir Cement Limited[32]

Bashundhara City (Bengali: বসুন্ধরা সিটি) is the second-largest shopping mall of Bangladesh. Construction of the shopping mall began in 1998; Mohammad Foyes Ullah and Mustapha Khalid Palash of Vistara designed the building. Opened to the public on 6 August 2004,[33] the mall is located at Panthapath, near Karwan Bazar, in Dhaka city and cost over $100 million to complete. Bashundhara City is 21 stories tall, of which 8 are used for the mall, which houses hundreds of Bangladeshi fashion houses and jewelry shops, as well as around 100 food outlets which sell foods like French fries, burgers, fried chicken, etc.[34]

Despite going through literal fire twice since its existence, this second-largest shopping mall of Bangladesh stands high at the heart of the city. The first incident took place in 13th March 2009 where 7 people were perished and 20 others were injured. However, the second incident in 2016 did not have any casualties.[35]

Bashundhara Group is expanding its business in various sectors started from real estate sector to steel industry. In 2009, they started a new enterprise, East West Media Group Ltd. It now owns four big media houses of Bangladesh; namely, two television channel, one FM radio station, one online newspaper and three other print media publications. Kaler Kantho and The Daily Bangladesh Pratidin are its Bengali national daily newspapers.[36] The English newspaper is owns named Daily Sun.;[37] The online newspaper is owns named banglanews24.com (Bengali, English);.[38] News24, T-Sports is the Television channel of EWMG whereas Radio Capital is its only FM radio station.

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