Amjad Khan Chowdhury’s 2nd anniversary of death today

Today is the second death anniversary of Maj Gen (retd) Amjad Khan Chowdhury, a visionary entrepreneur and industrialist who founded the PRAN-RFL Group, Bangladesh’s biggest conglomerate company.

On this occasion, a doa mahfil will be arranged at its head office and factories to commemorate him.

He breathed his last at Duke Medical College in North Carolina of the USA on July 8, 2015.

Born in an aristocratic Muslim family in Natore district in 1939, Mr Chowdhury started his education at Dhaka’s Nabakumar Institute and graduated from Australian Staff College.

He joined Army in 1956. He retired from Bangladesh Army in 1981.

The soldier-turned-businessman Amjad Khan Chowdhury started his business career in 1981.

Now PRAN-RFL Group is the leading agro processed foods, plastic household company in the country.

Around 94 thousand people are working directly at the group. PRAN-RFL Group is now exporting its products to 134 countries around the globe.