Bashundhara Group


Bashundhara Group is one of the largest industrial conglomerates of Bangladesh. It began in 1987 as a real estate company venture under the name East West Property Development Ltd. The first project of EWPD turned out to be very successful. After then, the company grew very quickly. It presently owns more than 20 major concerns located throughout Bangladesh.

History

Bashundhara Group began in 1987 as real estate venture. Shafiat Sobhan Sanvir is the Vice Chairman of Bashundhara Group. 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. On 19 December 2011, Bashundhara chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan was sued for 'fraud' by Mohammad Shahjahan over the price of land in Bashundhara. Bashundhara received permission from Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority to Set up two specialized economic zones in Keraniganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh. In 2020, Bashundhara invested $143.7 million to build the largest bitumen plant in Bangladesh. This factory will singlehandedly help the country become self sufficient in bitumen production and the surplus can be exported overseas.
For the people, for the Country - is their official slogan

Enterprises

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

    Bashundhara City

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, 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.

Bashundhara Residential Area

Media houses

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, 1 Television channel, 1 FM radio station, 1 online newspaper and 3 other print media publications. Kaler Kantho and The Daily Bangladesh Pratidin are its Bengali national daily newspapers. The English newspaper is owns named Daily Sun.; The online newspaper is owns named banglanews24.com ;. News24 is the Television channel of EWMGL whereas Radio Capital is its only FM radio station.