Bangladesh Export Import Company Limited (Bangla Transliteration: বাংলাদেশ এক্সপোর্ট ইমপোর্ট কোম্পানি লিমিটেড, romanised: Bānglādēsh ēkspōrṭ impōrṭ kōmpāni limiṭēḍ), commonly known by its trade name BEXIMCO (Bangla: বেক্সিমকো) (DSE: BEXIMCO CSE: BEXIMCO), is a Bangladeshi multinational conglomerate holding company, headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It was founded in the early 1970s. Beximco is Bangladesh's largest conglomerate, with the largest market capitalisation on the country's stock market. BEXIMCO's subsidiaries export products to 55 countries worldwide. It has retail outlets in South Asia and Eastern Europe. Beximco operates one of the largest integrated textile production businesses in Asia. Its main manufacturing base is the Beximco Industrial Park in Gazipur, Bangladesh. Beximco Pharma, the group's pharmaceutical producer, was the first Bangladeshi company to be listed on the London Stock Exchange. History The company was founded by brothers A. S. F. Rahman and Salman F Rahman in 1972, right after the independence of Bangladesh. Their family was earlier engaged in the jute business. The jute factory was nationalized in the early 1970s. However, with free market reforms in the late 1970s and 1980s, the family regained many of their businesses. Since the early 1970s, Beximco has been a pioneer in industrial and business sectors. Currently it has operations and investments across a wide range of industries including pharmaceuticals, ceramics, renewable energy, textiles, LPG, food & beverage, satellite to home television, PPE, media, ICT, real estate, financial services, and travel & tourism. In 2005, Beximco Pharma became the first Bangladeshi company to be listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange. Beximco also opened its first overseas retail outlet with the launch of the Yellow clothing brand in Karachi, Pakistan. Yellow has since expanded to several Bangladeshi and Pakistani cities. In 2009, Shinepukur Ceramics opened a showroom in Moscow, Russia. In 2010, the company acquired stakes in several major Bangladeshi businesses, including IFIC Bank, GMG Airlines, and Unique Hotels and Resorts. Beximco Communications, a joint venture of Beximco Holdings with Russian company GS Group, launched Bangladesh's first direct-to-home (DTH) satellite television service in 2016, under the brand name RealVU. RealVU later suspended operations, but was rebooted as Akash in 2019. As of 2022, Akash had 700,000 subscribers and growing. The company is considered to enjoy close connections with the Awami League, with its vice chairman Salman F Rahman serving as a Private Sector Development Affairs Adviser to Prime Minister and Bangladesh Awami League President