01 Who we are
The
premise
Sandton Dhaka Ltd. is a Bangladeshi enterprise with interests spanning petroleum refining, polymer manufacturing, marine resources, real estate, capital markets, industrial minerals and business services.
It was not assembled by buying unrelated assets. Each company began as an answer to a supply problem — a material that had to be imported, a service that had to be bought abroad, a lead time that could not be met locally. Solving those problems built plants, fleets and floors, and those became companies.
The result looks diversified from outside and reads as coherent from inside: businesses that make what the domestic economy needs, held for the long term, financed conservatively, and governed from one office in Banglamotor.
02 History
Twenty-eight
years
Growth came in steps, each one financed largely out of the last. No company in the portfolio was acquired at distress and none was bought to be resold.
03 Structure
What the head
office does
The head office does not run the companies. It owns them, funds them, governs them, and sets the direction they operate within. Day-to-day authority sits with each company’s own management; accountability comes back to the board.
01
Strategy & portfolio
Which businesses we are in, which we enter, which we leave. Reviewed annually against a ten-year horizon rather than a quarterly one.
02
Capital allocation
Funding, gearing limits, banking relationships and reinvestment priorities. Companies compete for capital on returns and strategic fit.
03
Governance & risk
Board oversight, statutory compliance, internal audit, insurance and the risk register maintained across every company.
04
Shared services
Treasury, legal, human resources, procurement leverage and technology — carried once centrally rather than seven times over.
04 Principles
How we
work
Applied to every company, whether it runs a plant or a trading desk.
05 At a glance
1998
Established
7
Operating companies
6
Sites nationwide
3,412
People employed
| Legal name | Sandton Dhaka Ltd. |
|---|---|
| Established | 1998 |
| Head office | Sandton Centre, 113 Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue, Banglamotor, Dhaka 1000 |
| Structure | Parent company with seven operating subsidiaries |
| Ownership | Privately held |
| Sectors | Energy, manufacturing, marine, property, finance, minerals, services |
|---|---|
| Operating sites | Dhaka, Narayanganj, Gazipur, Chattogram, Sylhet |
| People | 3,412 |
| Financial year | 1 July – 30 June |
| Accounts | Externally audited and filed annually |