From Left: Ahsan Khan Chowdhury, Chairman and CEO, Pran-RFL group & Major General Amjad Khan Chowdhury (Retd.) Picture: Collected.[/caption] “India is a huge market for us. We want to be present in 700 taluks of India and we look at corporate India for inspiration. How to become more structured, how to run a company more professionally…. Just now, I finished a call with our distributors in Jharkhand, and before that I was talking to someone in Africa. Our desire is to become a global company. Borders are meaningless,” says Chowdhury. In 2015, the company set up its first factory in India—in Agartala, Tripura. Pran-RFL, of which Pran Foods is a subsidiary, was started by Chowdhury’s father in 1981, a decade after Bangladesh achieved independence. A retired major general in the Bangladesh army, Amjad Khan Chowdhury had a strong patriotic streak, says his son—he wanted to see the young nation become economically strong and free of poverty, and empowering its farmers through agribusinesses was his vision. The younger Chowdhury, a graduate of Wartburg College in Iowa, US, joined the company when he was 21 and has been responsible for making it more consumer-facing and innovative. Find details... Source: Online/TA
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