PRAN-RFL Group

Overview

PRAN-RFL Group

type	Public
traded as	DSE: (PRAN) CSE: (PRAN) DSE: (RFL) CSE: (RFL)
industry	Consumer goods
founded	January 1, 1981
founder	Amjad Khan Chowdhury
hq location	Dhaka, Bangladesh
area served	Worldwide
key people	Ahsan Khan Chowdhury (Chairperson) Eleash Mridha (Managing Director) Mohammad Yeamin (Chief financial officer)
products	* Foods * Condiments * Ice creams * Energy drinks * Wellbeing vitamins * Minerals and supplements * Tea * instant coffees * Home appliances * pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare products * Breakfast cereals * Cleaning agents * Plastic Accessories for home * Pet foods * Toothpastes * Bottled waters * Soft drinks * Study Accessories * Personal care
brands	* Pran Foods Ltd. * RFL Plastics * Vision Electronics * Jhatpat frozen food * Bisk Club Biscuits * All Time Bakery * Wonder Bakery * Pran Beverages * Pran Dairy Products * WINNER Electronics * SHINE Bathroom Fittings * CLICK Cables * DURANTA Bicycles * Regal Furnitures
revenue	▲ (FY 2022)‡R1R‡‡R2R‡
operating income	▲ (FY 2022)‡R1R‡
net income	▲ (FY 2022)‡R1R‡
assets	(FY 2022)‡R1R‡
equity	▲ (FY 2022)‡R1R‡
num employees	10,757 (2022)
website	https://www.pranfoods.net/ (Pran Foods) https://rflbd.com/ (RFL Plastics) https://othoba.com/ (E-commerce) ( Online Shopping)

PRAN-RFL Group is a Bangladeshi conglomerate,[3] founded in 1981 by Amjad Khan Chowdhury. It is one of the largest conglomerates in Bangladesh[4] Pran-RFL Group is headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and employs over 100,000 people worldwide making it the largest employer brand in the country. The group operates under several subsidiaries, including Pran Foods, RFL Plastics, Pran-RFL Healthcare, and many others.[5]

Pran Foods is the flagship company of the group and RFL is the subsidiary company mostly consisting of plastic and steel products.

History

PRAN (Programme for Rural Advancement Nationally)[6]

Criticism

The company is accused of land grabbing, revenue evasion, fake tender of 305 crore Taka in the name of Rangpur Metal Industries and selling substandard consumer goods.[34][35] There are also allegations of digital corruption and looting of thousands of crores of taka with the illegal assistance of officials from the Public Works Department.[36][37] In 2019, a Bangladesh court ordered the arrest of the company's managing director after BSTI tests found excess ash in turmeric powder produced by Pran Agro Limited.[38] The Bangladesh High Court issued a rule asking why the family of an employee of the company should not be compensated for the death of the employee in 2018.[39] The Pran-RFL company of Alipur, Habiganj, has been accused of dumping banned and harmful contaminated waste into the Sutang River, the only river in Lakhai Upazila of Habiganj district, for a long time.[40] In July 2025, the local administration seized 2,500 liters of adulterated milk from the Pran Company's hub center in Chatmohar Upazila of Pabna, and a mobile court sentenced three Pran officials to six months in prison each for storing and supplying adulterated milk.[41] In front of the National Press Club, some employees of PRAN-RFL accused the company of religiously hateful activities against Muslim employees. These are - 1. Holding online meetings during prayer times. If they could not attend the meetings, they would be taken to a separate phone conference with senior officials, abused in foul language, and referred to as a camp. 2. Making employees work full duty despite the holidays of Shab-e-Qadr and Shab-e-Barat. 3. Increasing the pressure of extra work during the month of Ramadan. 4. Holding meetings online on Google Meet during Tarawih prayers, indirectly preventing everyone from praying. 5. Not giving any time separately for Iftar. 6. Making many excuses and harassing them about Eid ul Fitr and Eid ul Azha holidays. One victim said that PRAN-RFL Group provides special benefits to a definite community in getting jobs and while working. When these were protested, the protesters used to be quickly fired.[42]

A group of 101 Bangladeshi Islamic scholars in Bangladesh called for a boycott of Pran RFL products, accusing it of funding Ahmadis, and claiming it as anti-Islamic.[43] In 2021, International Majlis-e Tahaffuz-e-Khatm-e Nobuwat Bangladesh called for a boycott of PRAN-RFL and all their products at all levels, personal, social, and state.[44]

PRAN-RFL Group

History

Businesses

Duranta

Proton

Othoba

Criticism

References