Gul Ahmed Group
Encyclopedia
The primary concerns of the Gul Ahmed Group include Gul Ahmed Textile Mills Limited
, Gul Ahmed Energy Limited, and Habib Metropolitan Bank. More recently, a chain of retail outlets has been founded under the name "Ideas by Gul Ahmed". The group's other concerns go by the name of Swisstex Chemicals (Private) Limited, which is a large chemical distribution company that has the sole rights for supplying Ciba Specialty Chemicals
in Pakistan
. "The group has also extended in to the information technology
sector and made vast investments in its fastest developing concern Arwen Technologies that made it into the 9 May 2005 issue of Business Week regarding Pakistan's rapidly developing outsourcing sector.
Gul Ahmed Textile Mills Limited
-History:The Gul Ahmed Group began trading in textiles in the early 1900s. In 1953, the group decided to enter the field of manufacturing under the name Gul Ahmed Textile Mills Limited, and was incorporated as a privately limited company. In 1972, it was listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange...
, Gul Ahmed Energy Limited, and Habib Metropolitan Bank. More recently, a chain of retail outlets has been founded under the name "Ideas by Gul Ahmed". The group's other concerns go by the name of Swisstex Chemicals (Private) Limited, which is a large chemical distribution company that has the sole rights for supplying Ciba Specialty Chemicals
Ciba Specialty Chemicals
Ciba was a chemical company based in and near Basel, Switzerland. "Ciba" stood for "Chemische Industrie Basel" . It was formed as the non-pharmaceuticals elements of Novartis were spun out in 1997, following the merger in the previous year of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz that created Novartis.In 2008,...
in Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
. "The group has also extended in to the information technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
sector and made vast investments in its fastest developing concern Arwen Technologies that made it into the 9 May 2005 issue of Business Week regarding Pakistan's rapidly developing outsourcing sector.
Group Companies
- Gul Ahmed International Limited
- GTM Europe Limited
- Gul Ahmed Textile Mills Limited
- Gul Ahmed Energy
- Habib Metropolitan Bank