Chenab Limited, commonly known as Chenab Group (Urdu: چناب گروپ), is a Pakistani conglomerate based in Faisalabad.[1] It was one of the largest exporters of home textile products from Pakistan before its default in 2013.[2]
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| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| PSX: CHBL | |
| Industry | Textile Fashion Retailing |
| Founded | 1974 |
| Founder | Haji Muhammad Saleem and Mian Muhammad Latif |
| Headquarters | Nishatabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people |
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Number of employees | 12,000 |
| Divisions | Chenab Limited, Chen One and CGI Limited UAE |
| Website | Official website |
History
editIt was set up in 1974 as Chenab Fabrics & Processing Mills Limited and later converted to Chenab Limited, and is traded on the Pakistan Stock Exchange. It was founded by Mian Muhammad Latif and his father, Haji Muhammad Saleem who was a cotton industrialist in Toba Tek Singh District.[3]
Mian Muhammad Latif, the group's chairman, laid the foundation by setting up a processing unit in Faisalabad, later joined by his younger brothers, Mian Muhammad Naeem and Mian Javed Iqbal. Chenab Group soon started exporting its products worldwide and by the 1990s, it started exporting to 35 countries worldwide. Chenab is a vertically integrated unit with having complete operation range from ginning to retailing. The Group's textile mills division was listed on Karachi Stock Exchange in 2004. The Group's downfall began in 2007-8 when it sustained four billion Pakistani Rupees in losses.[4] As per last annual report (ending June 2014), it has negative equity of Pakistani Rupees 4.7 billion and the auditors state, "in our opinion, because of the significance of the matters discussed ...the balance sheet, profit and loss account, statement of comprehensive income, cash flow statement and statement of changes in equity together with the notes forming part thereof, do not conform with approved accounting standards as applicable in Pakistan and do not give the information required by the Companies Ordinance 1984 in a manner so required and do not give a true and fair view of the state of the Companies affairs...".[5] The last annual report also confirms that the company is in violation of the Pakistani Code of Corporate Governance, has no independent directors on its board.[5] Its 2013 Annual report includes a statement from the company auditors that the company violates the Pakistan Code of Corporate Governance as none of the directors have attended a directors training course.[6]
Equipment
editChenab's textile unit used to process and convert more than 70 million meters of fabric every year into made-ups and garment products. Chenab is capable of producing multiple products. Chenab has 19,200 spindles at its spinning unit with in-house space of 520,000 square feet (48,000 m2). Chenab's weaving unit is equipped with 250 airjet looms and 380 auto-looms. Chenab's processing unit is the largest in the country with a complete processing range from dying to finishing. Chenab is also equipped with a stitching unit for ready-made garments. However, current utilization of the units is now at 25% of their capacity.[4] To make itself more independent in generating power supply for its own units, Chenab Group has set up a 12.6 mega-watt natural-gas-based power generation facility with heat exchangers and boilers for its operation.[7]
References
edit- ^ Bashir, Muntazar (6 September 2020). "Chenab Limited: Company in Decline". Asian Journal of Management Cases. 17 (2): 188–210. doi:10.1177/0972820120927192 – via CrossRef.
- ^ Naeem, Zain (3 December 2023). "Ten years ago Chenab Limited defaulted on its loans. Now it looks towards second act". Profit by Pakistan Today.
- ^ Textile industry has the largest potential to boost Pakistan's exports Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine An interview with Mian Muhammad Latif, Chief Executive, Chenab Limited on pakistaneconomist.com website, Published 16 October 2000, Retrieved 21 September 2020
- ^ a b Imran Rana (14 September 2014). "Business stories: The Rise and Fall of the Chenab Group". The Express Tribune (newspaper). Retrieved 21 September 2020.
- ^ a b "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Profile of Mian Muhammad Latif on PakistanHerald.com website Retrieved 21 September 2020
External links
edit- Chenab Group website
- Chen One Archived 10 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine