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Latifur Rahman (businessman) was born on 28 August, 1945 in Jalpaiguri, Bengal, British India (now West Bengal, India), is a Bangladeshi businessman. Discover Latifur Rahman (businessman)'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?

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Occupation Industrialist, chairman of Transcom Group
Age 74 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 28 August, 1945
Birthday 28 August
Birthplace Jalpaiguri, Bengal, British India (now West Bengal, India)
Date of death 1 July, 2020
Died Place Comilla, Chittagong, Bangladesh
Nationality India

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1945

Latifur Rahman (28 August 1945 – 1 July 2020) was a Bangladeshi business magnate and media mogul.

He served as the founding chairman and CEO of Transcom Group which deals with beverages, electrical and electronics products, pharmaceuticals, fast food, snacks and breakfast cereals, print media, FM radio and tea plantations mostly as the comprador of international brands like Pizza Hut, KFC, Pepsi and Philips.

He was the founding director of Mediaworld and Chairman of Mediastar, which owned The Daily Star and Prothom Alo newspapers, respectively.

Both are the nation's leading English and Bangla newspapers.

1966

Latifur Rahman started his career as a trainee in 1966 in his family-owned jute mills in Chandpur District.

1971

He worked as an executive in the mills until 1971.

1973

Latifur Rahman established Transcom Group in 1973 after W Rahman Jute Mills, the main earning source for his family, was nationalised in 1972.

1980

In the 1980s, Latifur Rahman became the sole importer and distributor of Nestlé products in Bangladesh.

1990

In the 1990s, he bought Smith, Kline & French, a US-based pharmaceutical which had merged into Beecham Group, a British company, and renamed it Eskayef.

1998

Shazneen was killed at home in Gulshan, Dhaka in 1998 by their household domestic helpers.

2012

Latifur Rahman received the Oslo Business for Peace Award 2012 in 2012 for business ethics and social responsibility.

2014

Latifur Rahman was elected a member of the executive board of the Paris-based International Chamber of Commerce for a three-year term in July 2014.

He served as the president of Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI), Dhaka.

Latifur Rahman served as the chairman of the following companies.

• Bangladesh Lamps Ltd

• Transcom Ltd

• Transcom Beverages Ltd

• Transcom Electronics Ltd

• Eskayef Bangladesh Ltd

• Transcom Foods Ltd

• Transcom Distribution Co Ltd

• Mediastar Ltd

• Transcraft Ltd

• Ayna Broadcasting Corp Ltd

• Tea Holdings Ltd

• Transcom Mobile Ltd

• Transcom Cables Ltd

• Nestlé Bangladesh Ltd

• Mediaworld Ltd

• Holcim Cement Bangladesh Ltd

Latifur Rahman was married to Shahnaz Rahman.

Together they had three daughters, Simeen Hossain, Shazneen Rahman, and Shahzreh Huq, and a son, Arshad Waliur Rahman.

Simeen is a managing director of Eskayef Bangladesh Limited, Transcom Consumer Products Limited and Transcom Distribution Limited.

2016

Simeen's younger son, Faraaz Ayaaz Hossain, was killed in the 2016 Gulshan attack.

2020

Latifur Rahman died on 1 July 2020 at his residence at Chheora village in Chauddagram Upazila, Comilla aged 75.

He was buried at Banani Graveyard in Dhaka.