Rahimafrooz

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Rahimafrooz is one of the largest business groups in Bangladesh. It is founded by Late A. C. Abdur Rahim as a trading company in 1954. It consists of nine SBUs and several other affiliations. The Group's Chairman is Mr. Afroz Rahim and the Managing Director is Mr. Feroz Rahim. Rahimafrooz operates in three broad domains: automotive after market, power and energy, and retail chain. It sells tyres, batteries, lubricants, emergency power products, diesel as well as gas generators, lighting products, electrical accessories, solar systems, energy solutions using compressed natural gas, and power rectifiers. The Group also runs 'Agora' the first retail chain in Bangladesh. The Group has strengthened its market leadership at home while reaching out to international markets. Ranging from automotive after market products, energy and power solutions, to a retail chain.

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The Rahimafrooz journey dates back to the early fifties when Late Mr. A.C Abdur

Rahim founded a small trading company and paved the way for making of one of

today’s leading Bangladeshi business conglomerates. Over the decades, Rahimafrooz

has grown in size, scale, and diversity. The Group today has seven Operating

Companies (SBUs), three other business ventures, and a non-profit social enterprise. As

of 2009, the Group currently employs more than two thousand people directly and a

further twenty thousand indirectly as suppliers contractors, dealers and retailers.

The major milestones in Rahimafrooz history can be summarized as below:

• Incorporated in 1954 by Mr. A.C. Abdur Rahim

• Distributorship of Lucas Battery in 1959

• Exclusive distributorship of Dunlop tyre in 1978

• Acquisition of Bangladesh operations of Lucas UK in 1980

• First producer of industrial battery in 1985

• Pioneering Solar Power in collaboration with BP in 1985

• First ever battery export – to Singapore – in 1992

• Launched Rahimafrooz Instant Power System...