Sapphire (group)

[4] Under Haji Muhammad Din's leadership, the business flourished and became one of the largest exporter of raw leather in British India, with agents in major cities such as New Delhi, Lucknow, Kanpur, and Amritsar.

[4] In 1951, Haji Muhammad Din died after a brief illness and the family struggled to manage the labor-intensive leather business and eventually transitioned to trading yarn between Dhaka and Karachi in 1953.

[4] By the early 1960s, the family had established a stable yarn business and opened their first textile mill in Jessore, East Pakistan, in 1961.

[4] As Bengali nationalism grew, the family decided to invest in West Pakistan and established a spinning mill in Bahawalpur in 1966.

[4] Political instability in East Pakistan led the family to move to Karachi in 1970, where they acquired the Sapphire Textile Mill in Kotri, Sindh, in 1971, and later used it as the group identity.

Sapphire outlet at Packages Mall