The Lakson Group, was founded in 1954. Lakson Group is a well-known business group 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 conglomerate is run by the Lakhani brothers among whom Iqbal Ali Lakhani

Iqbal Ali Lakhani

Iqbal Ali Lakhani is a Pakistani industrialist belonging to Karachi's wealthy Lakhani family that is reported to be among the top 22 richest families in the country. He is one of four brothers controlling the Lakson Group and he is the group chairman....

 is Chairman of the Lakson group. His siblings are Amin Lakhani, Sultan Lakhani and Zulfiqar Lakhani. Its head office is located at Karachi

Karachi

Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...

, Sind, Pakistan. The Group's portfolio consists of detergents and soaps, toothpaste

Toothpaste

Toothpaste is a paste or gel dentifrice used with a toothbrush as an accessory to clean and maintain the aesthetics and health of teeth. Toothpaste is used to promote oral hygiene: it serves as an abrasive that aids in removing the dental plaque and food from the teeth, assists in suppressing...

, food products, fast food restaurants, insurance

Insurance

In law and economics, insurance is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent, uncertain loss. Insurance is defined as the equitable transfer of the risk of a loss, from one entity to another, in exchange for payment. An insurer is a company selling the...

, internet services, software, paper and board, printing

Printing

Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing....

, powdered beverages and tea

Tea

Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by adding cured leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant to hot water. The term also refers to the plant itself. After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world...

, packaging, publications, surgical instruments

Surgical instruments

A surgical instrument is a specially designed tool or device for performing specific actions of carrying out desired effects during a surgery or operation, such as modifying biological tissue, or to provide access for viewing it. Over time, many different kinds of surgical instruments and tools...

, and textiles.

Media

• Express News
  Express News (Pakistan)
  Express News is an Urdu language Pakistani television news channel launched on January 1, 2008. It is owned and run by the country's third largest Urdu daily, Daily Express...
  
  , Urdu-language news channel
• Express 24/7
  Express 24/7
  Express 24/7 was an English language television news channel based in Pakistan. Its headquarters were located in Lahore, Pakistan. The channel was owned by the Lakson Group which also owns its sister channel Express News and newspaper Daily Express and The Express Tribune...
  
  , English-language 24-hour news channel
• The Daily Express
  Daily Express (Urdu newspaper)
  The Daily Express , founded on 3 September, 1998, is one of Pakistan’s most widely circulated Urdu language newspapers, published by Century Publications, a Lakson Group subsidiary. It is published simultaneously from Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, Quetta, Multan, Faisalabad, Gujranwala,...
  
  , No. 2 Urdu daily in Pakistan
• Express Tribune, English newspaper
• Century Publications

Other

• Accuray Surgicals Limited
• Century Insurance Company
• Century Paper and Board Mills
• Century Power Generation Limited
• Clover Pakistan
• Colgate-Palmolive Pakistan
• Cybernet Internet Service (Private) Limited
• Lakson Business Solutions Limited ,Software Solution Provider

• Merit Packaging Limited
• Princeton Travels (Private) Limited
• SIZA Foods (Private) Limited (McDonald's)
• Tetley Clover Pakistan (Private) Limited
• Tritex Cotton Mills Limited
• Sybrid (Pvt) Limited

Foreign Affiliations

• Colgate-Palmolive Company Incorporation (USA)

Equity holding in Colgate-Palmolive (Pakistan) Limited

• Kraft General Foods Incorporation (USA)

Licensing arrangement with Clover Pakistan Limited, with equity
participation option

• McDonald’s Corporation (USA)

Equity in Siza Foods (Private) Limited

• Philip Morris International Finance Corporation (USA) &

Rothmans International (UK)
Equity in Lakson Tobacco Company Limited

• Tetley Overseas Holdings Limited

50:50 Joint Venture with Tetley Clover (Private) Limited

External links

• Lakson Tobacco
• Clover Pakistan Limited
• Century Paper & Board Mills Limited
• Century Insurance Limited
• Cybernet Internet Service
• Lakson Business Solutions
• Merit Packaging Limited
• Daily Express
• Lakson Investments