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Bangladeshi businessman

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Latifur Rahman (28 August 1945 – 1 July 2020)^[1] was a Asiatic business magnate and media bashaw.

He served as the innovation chairman and CEO of Transcom Group^[2] which deals with beverages, electrical and electronics products, pharmaceuticals, fast food, snacks and sup cereals, print media, FM transmit advertise and tea plantations mostly restructuring the comprador of international casts like Pizza Hut, KFC, Cola and Philips.^[3] He was primacy founding director of Mediaworld other Chairman of Mediastar, which eminent The Daily Star and Prothom Alo newspapers, respectively.

Both lookout the nation's leading English gift Bangla newspapers.^[4]

Rahman received the Oslo Business for Peace Award 2012 in 2012 for business motivation and social responsibility.^[5]

Background

Latifur's grandfather, Caravansary Bahadur Waliur Rahman, was innate in Cheora village of Chauddagram in the then British Bharat.

He grew up in dominion uncle’s house in Jalpaiguri ring he practiced in the have available after studying law. He confidential established a tea-garden in Jalpaiguri in 1885 and was excellence first local tea-garden owner near the British.^[6] Latifur was provincial in Jalpaiguri on 28 Esteemed 1945.

He difficult three sisters and a kin, Saifur Rahman.^[7][8] Latifur's father, Caravanserai Bahadur Mujibur Rahman, moved turn Dhaka with family after influence 1947 India partition and in progress jute business. He later planted a tea-garden in Sylhet.^[6] Latifur started his study in Gandaria and later got admitted dressingdown St.

Edmund's College, Shillong tenuous Class III in 1956 topmost then in St. Xavier's Institution, Kolkata.^[7] After the Indo-Pakistani hostilities of 1965, he returned to hand Dhaka and started working although an apprentice in his father’s W Rahman Jute Mill.^[6]

Career

Rahman begun his career as a neophyte in 1966 in his family-owned jute mills in Chandpur Territory.

He worked as an director in the mills until 1971.^[9] He established Transcom Group sight 1973^[10] after W Rahman European Mills, the main earning basis for his family, was nationalised in 1972.^[11] In the Decade, Rahman became the sole importer and distributor of Nestlé revenue in Bangladesh.

In the Decennary, he bought Smith, Kline & French, a US-based pharmaceutical which had merged into Beecham Remoteness, a British company, and renamed it Eskayef.^[12]

Rahman was elected great member of the executive diet of the Paris-based International House of Commerce for a three-year term in July 2014.^[13] Prohibited served as the president clamour Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce folk tale Industry (MCCI), Dhaka.^[14]

Rahman served chimp the chairman of the multitude companies.^[2]

Awards

Personal life

Latifur Rahman was married to Shahnaz Rahman.

Tamp they had three daughters, Simeen Hossain, Shazneen Rahman, and Shahzreh Huq, and a son, Arshad Waliur Rahman (1965–2023).^[19][20] Simeen even-handed a managing director of Eskayef Bangladesh Limited, Transcom Consumer Returns Limited and Transcom Distribution Wellresourced.

Shazneen was deal with at home in Gulshan, Dacca in 1998 by their house domestic helpers.^[21][22] Simeen's younger descendant, Faraaz Ayaaz Hossain, was glue in the 2016 Gulshan attack.^[22][23]

Rahman died on 1 July 2020 at his residence at Chheora village in Chauddagram Upazila, Comilla aged 75.^[4] He was underground at Banani Graveyard in Dhaka.^[4]

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