In the year 1987, 'Bashundhara' was launched, initially as a real estate developer, moving in later years into other areas, including manufacturing. Over the past two decades, the challenges in the fields of urban housing and civic amenity provision have been unprecedented. In keeping with rapid population growth in metropolitan Dhaka, Bashundhara stretched itself to cover new boundaries and respond effectively to long-term needs of the mammoth city populace.

Housing plans were tailored to focus on the affordability limits of fixed-income groups and their specific amenity needs. We took real-life lessons from past experience, while taking new strides in innovation and partnership. These efforts brought tangible gains in many directions – the net result being that people's confidence in our undertakings grew overwhelmingly in the last two decades. The urban housing crisis in Bangladesh does not seem to have abated. Thus, we expect to come up with new housing and apartment projects in the near future.

A new scenario emerged as we started a new way of doing business and expanding our horizon to cover manufacturing, and the provision of services. We grew with a selective choice of new investments. Bashundhara is now a leader in many fields with several enterprises involved in a diverse array of manufacturing. The Group’s concerns are currently engaged in the manufacture of a wide range of products, such as – cement, all blends of tissue paper, newsprint, pulp, duplex board, various kinds of paper and allied products, MS rods, LP gas, gas cylinders, GI pipes, pavers, hollow bricks, among others. Bashundhara is also a pioneer in LP gas bottling and marketing. Bashundhara has just completed construction of South Asia’s largest shopping mall-cum-recreation centre, located in the hub of Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital. By the turn of the century, Bashundhara became a “Group of Companies” with over 14 different concerns – now a leading business conglomerate of the country.

We fully understand and appreciate the scale of our corporate social responsibility that requires our Group to strive for a better quality of life for the average citizen. We continue to invest in a time of failing investor confidence. Our R&D investment, and outlays on new industrial ventures have remained reassuringly strong.

We have been in the business-world for only about sixteen years. We take pride in the fact that, over this short span of time, with the co-operation of our business partners and clientele, we have made meaningful gains. We do not strive to be the market leader for glory – but we aim at being at the apex as far as quality and pricing go. Most of our products are ISO certified and have passed the rigors of modern quality testing. Let me assure you that Bashundhara will strive to espouse the need to enhance the quality of our services and products, and evolve new goals for the Group. Our vivid understanding of market dynamics will help us in the attainment of these goals.