About Us

Adamjee Haji Dawood was born in 1880 in Jetpur, Kathiawar, Gujarat in British India in a Memon family. By 1922, he had accumulated sufficient resources and a strong presence in the commodities markets, enabling him to set up his first industrial venture – a match factory in Rangoon. In 1927, he returned to India to establish a jute mill in Calcutta. The Adamjee Jute Mills Limited was the third jute mill to be set up by an Indian and the first Muslim-owned public company in British India. To capture this emerging niche, Adamjee along with Mr. G. D. Birla of Birla Jute, broke into this monopolistic trade controlled by the East India Company until that time. Once Pakistan was created, Dawood and his sons established businesses in both East (now Bangladesh) & West Pakistan.

He was also an avid educationist and philanthropist. He was responsible for financing and helping a number of educational institutions in India and Pakistan including the Dawood College of Engineering and Technology in Karachi which was established by the Dawood Group in 1962.

So the newly created country Pakistan was in financial trouble. Adamjee Haji Dawood wrote a ‘blank cheque’ secured against all his industrial assets and personal wealth which enabled the country to handle its financial crisis successfully.