Saigol Group
Pakistani company
The Saigol Group (Urdu pronunciation: [ˈsɛɡ.əl] SEG-uhl) is a group of companies headquartered in Lahore, Pakistan. It was founded by Ameen Saigol in the 1930s with a small shop that eventually developed into the Kohinoor Rubber Works. Ameen Saigol had four sons: Yousaf, Sayeed, Gull and Bashir.
History
The Saigol family were originally farmers from a small town called Khotian, Chakwal District, Punjab, Pakistan. Khotian town was later named Saigolabad after this family. Sayeed Saigol moved to Calcutta in the 1930s and opened a shoe store. He opened a rubber shoe factory, and was a supplier of rubber shoes and raincoats to the Allied Forces during World War II.
Saigol, anticipating the division and independence of British India, moved his assets to Lahore in the early 1940s. After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, with the help of his three brothers Yousaf, Gull and Bashir, he set up their first textile spinning mill in Lyallpur (now called Faisalabad) in 1949 under the name of Kohinoor Industries. In 1953 a second textile plant was constructed near Rawalpindi and incorporated as Kohinoor Textile Mills. Later the family expanded its textile business more to Rawalpindi and Gujjar Khan, and bought a sugar mill in Jauharabad from the Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation.
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