Chenab Group

Chenab Group (چناب گروپ) is a Pakistani conglomerate based in Faisalabad, Pakistan.[1][2] It is one of the largest exporters of home textile products from Pakistan.

Chenab Group
TypePublic
PSX: CHBL
IndustryTextile
Fashion
Retailing
Founded1974
FounderHaji Muhammad Saleem and Mian Muhammad Latif
HeadquartersNishatabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Number of employees
12,000
DivisionsChenab Limited, Chen One and CGI Limited UAE
WebsiteOfficial website


History

It was set up in 1974 as Chenab Fabrics & Processing Mills Limited and later converted to Chenab Limited and is traded on the Pakistan Stock Exchange.[1] It was founded by Mian Muhammad Latif and his father Haji Muhammad Saleem who was a cotton industrialist in Toba Tek Singh District.[3]

Mian Muhammad Latif, the group's chairman, laid the foundation by setting up a processing unit in Faisalabad, later joined by his younger brothers Mian Muhammad Naeem and Mian Javed Iqbal. Chenab Group soon started exporting its products worldwide and by the 1990s, it started exporting to 35 countries worldwide. Chenab is a vertically integrated unit with having complete operation range from ginning to retailing. The Group's textile mills division was listed on Karachi Stock Exchange in 2004. The Group's downfall began in 2007-8 when it sustained 4 billion Pakistani Rupees in losses.[4] As per last annual report (ending June 2014), it has negative equity of Pakistani Rupees 4.7 billion and the auditors state, "in our opinion, because of the significance of the matters discussed ...the balance sheet, profit and loss account, statement of comprehensive income, cash flow statement and statement of changes in equity together with the notes forming part thereof, do not conform with approved accounting standards as applicable in Pakistan and do not give the information required by the Companies Ordinance 1984 in a manner so required and do not give a true and fair view of the state of the Companies affairs...".[5] The last annual report also confirms that the company is in violation of the Pakistani Code of Corporate Governance, has no independent directors on its board.[6] Its 2013 Annual report includes a statement from the company auditors that the company violates the Pakistan Code of Corporate Governance as none of the directors had attended a directors training course.[7]

Equipment

Chenab's textile unit used to process and convert more than 70 million meters of fabric every years into made-ups and garment products. Chenab is capable of producing multiple products. Chenab has 19,200 spindles at its spinning unit with in-house space of 520,000 square feet (48,000 m2). Chenab's weaving unit is equipped with 250 airjet looms and 380 auto-looms. Chenab's processing unit is the largest in the country with a complete processing range from dying to finishing. Chenab is also equipped with a stitching unit for ready-made garments. However current utilization of the units is now at 25% of their capacity.[4] To make itself more independent in generating power supply for its own units, Chenab Group has set up a 12.6 mega-watt natural-gas-based power generation facility with heat exchangers and boilers for its operations.[8][1]

Associated companies

Chenab Group introduced concept of ChenOne Stores in Pakistan. ChenOne is Pakistan's first home textile brand having a total of 40 branches in Pakistan. Chenab Group also owns or manages several other companies such as CGI Limited UAE, Chenab Fibres Ltd, ChenSoft, Chenab United States, ChenOne Worldwide, House of Chenab and ChenOne Foundation.[4] Some of these associate companies along with the owners have been implicated by the Pakistani Securities and Exchange Commission in insider trading/market manipulation of Chenab Shares.[9] Criminal prosecution of Chenab owners and companies is ongoing due to their alleged role in the matter[10]

References
  1. Business Summary of Chenab Limited on MarketScreener.com website Retrieved 21 September 2020
  2. 2013 Company Financial Report
  3. Textile industry has the largest potential to boost Pakistan's exports An interview with Mian Muhammad Latif, Chief Executive, Chenab Limited on pakistaneconomist.com website, Published 16 October 2000, Retrieved 21 September 2020
  4. Imran Rana (14 September 2014). "Business stories: The Rise and Fall of the Chenab Group". The Express Tribune (newspaper). Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  5. http://www.chenabgroup.com/Finance/pdf_files/FSYEJun302014.pdf
  6. http://www.chenabgroup.com/Finance/pdf_files/FSYEJun302014.pdf
  7. http://www.chenabgroup.com/Finance/pdf_files/FSYEJun302013.pdf
  8. Profile of Mian Muhammad Latif on PakistanHerald.com website Retrieved 21 September 2020
  9. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 April 2014. Retrieved 21 September 2020.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 April 2014. Retrieved 21 September 2020.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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