Abdul Wahid Adamjee (1908 – 4 July 1972) was a Pakistani industrialist.

Early life

Adamjee was born in 1908, in

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. He completed his education in Burma. He was the eldest son of Adamjee Haji Dawood, the founder of

Adamjee Group Adamjee Group ( ) is a group of companies headquartered in Karachi, Pakistan. The group was previously headed by Sir Adamjee Haji Dawood. As of 2007, it is unofficially estimated that the owners of Adamjee Group are among the top 40 wealthiest ...

Career

Adamjee joined the Adamjee Group in 1925, he worked in the match factory and rice mill of the group in Burma. From 1938 to 1948, he expanded the group in British India. He succeeded his father as the head of the

and Adamjee family, after his death on 27 January 1948. He expanded the Adamjee Group and played an important role in the industrialization of Pakistan. He founded the

Adamjee Jute Mills Adamjee Jute Mills was a jute mill in Bangladesh. It was established in Narayanganj in 1950 by the Adamjee Group. It was the second jute mill in East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh) after Bawa Jute Mill, which was the first Jute Mill in East ...

in Dacca, East Pakistan which was the largest Jute Mills in the world. He established Adamjee Tea Gardens in East Pakistan, then the largest tea fields in the world. In 1958, he was awarded the Hilal-e-Pakistan by the Government of Pakistan. He served as the chairman of

Pakistan Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation Pakistan Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation (PICIC) is a financial institution in Pakistan, one of the first development finance institutions established with the World Bank Group assistance in 1957. In 2007, PICIC Commercial Bank was ...

. The Adamjee group was estimated to be worth more than 60 million dollar in 1971, more than half of which was lost when Bangladesh became an independent country.

Death

Adamjee died on 4 July 1972, aged 64, in Karachi, Pakistan.

References

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