M. A. Hashem

Hashem was born in 30 August 1943 in Begumganj of Noakhali.[8]

M.A. Hashem made his modest beginning in the tobacco trading business in 1959. In the early seventies, he established M/S. Hashem Corporation (Pvt.) Ltd. as a trader with its headquarters in the port-city of Chittagong. The missionary zeal and unflinching commitment of quality and services elevated the group to newer heights. At the time when the newly independent country needed almost everything, he got involved in the import of iron, steel, cement, sugar, rice, spices, wheat, salt, milk and countless other essential commodities. He did not stop there, but decided that in order to make the country self-reliant, he would have to substitute imported products by manufacturing them locally. This led to the birth of Partex Group and year after year several units, both manufacturing and service orientated, kept being add to it. Today, the consolidated Partex Group consists of over 60 industries and companies.

Partex's companies are market leaders in nearly all sectors, including food and beverages, plastics, fabrics, cotton, sugar, paper, jute, shipping, furniture, agribusiness, oil, cables, aviation, PVC, telecommunication, logistics, fisheries, education, services, IT, denim fabric industry and many more. The towering heights reached by the group has been possible due to M.A. Hashem's missionary zeal and unflinching commitment to quality and ethics.

The towering heights reached by the group have been possible due to M.A. Hashem’s market-friendly corporate strategy, coupled with a modern management set-up optimised on the initiative and imagination of the personnel.

He is truly a self-made man. Guided by his visionary’s dream, backed by an inexhaustible repository of efforts, Partex Group has emerged as one of the largest corporate bodies of the country.

M.A. Hashem is also one of the poineers of the birth and growth of private banks and insurance companies in Bangladesh. He founded two of the largest private banks in Bangladesh - The City Bank Limited and UCBL. He also founded Janata insurance Ltd.

M.A. Hashem received several accolades and recognition from several organizations in Bangladesh for his service as a positive catalyst to the Bangladesh economy and a mass employer.

Having come from a modest background himself, M.A Hashem is also a philanthropist. He has multiple schools and hospitals under his name, all of which are non-profit organizations.

M.A. Hashem was married to Sultana Hashem.[9] They had five sons — Aziz Al Kaiser Tito, Aziz Al Mahmood, Aziz Al Masud, Rubel Aziz, and Showkat Aziz Russell.[10][11]

Hashem died on 24 December 2020 from the COVID-19 infection at the Evercare Hospital in Dhaka at the age of 77.[8]