National Tea Company Limited () is a Bangladeshi state owned tea company based in Dhaka. Sheikh Kabir Hossain, a relative of Sheikh Hasina, is the chairman of the company. Mr. Syed Shahriyar Ahsan is a director of the company. Syed is the managing director of Sadharan Bima Corporation of Bangladesh (SBC). He was nominated as a director of the company from Sadharan Bima Corporation on 1 October 2016. Chowdhury Nafeez Sarafat, chairman of Padma Bank, is a shareholder director of the company representing Finex Software Limited.
History National Tea Company was established in East Pakistan by the Adamjee Group of Companies. After the liberation of Bangladesh, the Adamjee family left for Karachi leaving all their East Pakistani properties behind. The National Tea Company was nationalized by the government of Bangladesh after liberation. The modern-day National Tea Company Limited was established in 1978 with the government of Bangladesh being the majority shareholder. It is the first tea company in Bangladesh jointly owned by the government and the public. The company started with Patrakhola Tea Estate, Kurmah Tea Estate, Champarai Tea Estate, Madanmohanpur Tea Estate, Madabpur Tea Estate, Jagadishpur Tea Estate, Teliapara Tea Estate, Chundeecherra Tea Estate, and Lackatoorah Tea Estate. The tea estates were taken over by the government after the end of Bangladesh Liberation War and placed under the Bangladesh Tea Industry Management Committee of the Bangladesh Tea Board. Afazuddin Fakir was appointed the first chairman of the company.
The National Tea Company Limited was listed on the Dhaka Stock Exchange in 1979.
In September 1982, the government of Bangladesh took over Parkul Tea Estate, Premnagar Tea Estate, and Bejoya Tea Estate and placed them under the National Tea Company Limited. The company produces an average of 5.2 million kilograms of tea. The company has more than 12 thousand employees and also produces rubber. Many of the workers are from ethnic minorities in Bangladesh.
In 2009, The Daily Star reported that the National Tea Company Limited saw production decline every year due to corruption and mismanagement.
On 23 June 2019, Sheikh Kabir Hossain was appointed chairman of the National Tea Company Limited replacing Munshi Shafiul Haque. In the fiscal year 2020, the company saw profits per share decline by 142 percent. In October 2021, Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission appointed two independent directors to the company following allegation of violation of security laws.
In February 2022, the National Tea Company Limited sought permission from the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission to increase the paid up capital of the company by issuing shares. The commission appointed special auditors to investigate for embezzlement in the company and to protect the interests of the shareholders.
List of chairmen +Sl noNameFromToReference1Afaz Uddin Fakir21 December 197929 December 19802Nazmul Hassan Zahed25 February 198126 December 19813Mohammad Hossain25 February 198226 December 19824A. M. Sanaul Huq16 January 198318 December 19855Zakir Khan Chowdhury13 January 198618 August 19886S. M. Uddin8 September 198831 May 19907Mohammad Ali4 June 199030 April 19958Mohd. A. Harris Chowdhury2 May 19953 May 19979M. A. Shahid4 May 199721 April 199910Enamul Haq Mustafa Shaheed6 May 19995 February 200211Mohd. A. Harris Chowdhury6 February 20022 May 200712Md. Sirajul Islam3 May 200724 June 200913M. A. Shahid25 June 200924 May 201314A. T. M. Murtozaa Reza Chowdhury25 May 201310 November 201415A. K. Abdul Mubin11 November 201421 December 201616Munshi Shafiul Haque14 June 201717 March 201917Sheikh Kabir Hossain23 June 2019
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