GROUND
Two looms and a rented shed in Narayanganj,
and a promise we would not miss a payroll.
TeckPal Group
Industrial group, Bangladesh · Gulshan, Dhaka
TeckPal began in 1996 with two looms in a rented shed in Narayanganj. It is now nine companies across textiles, energy, logistics and food processing, employing about four thousand one hundred people.
We have never taken the group public and we have never missed a payroll. Those two facts are related, and they are the only two we put in front of a new partner before the numbers.
Four things we actually do
- 01
Textiles
Woven and knit, from yarn to finished garment. Four units in Narayanganj and Gazipur supplying buyers in eleven countries.
- 02
Energy
Captive power for our own units and 38 MW into the national grid. Solar on every roof we own.
- 03
Logistics
Our own fleet, our own bonded warehouse and our own customs desk. Built because nobody else would guarantee the dates.
- 04
Food
Rice milling and edible oil refining for the domestic market, under two brands most Bangladeshi kitchens already have.
Thirty years, five moments
- 1996Two looms in a rented shed in Narayanganj.
- 2004First export order. Twelve thousand pieces to Hamburg.
- 2011Captive power plant commissioned. Load shedding stops mattering.
- 2019Logistics arm founded after a fourth missed vessel.
- 202538 MW exported to the grid. Ninth company trading.
They told us the date would slip and it did not. In fourteen years of sourcing from Bangladesh that had happened twice.
Sourcing Director, European retailerThe only group we deal with where the chairman knows the name of the man running the boiler.
Partner, Dhaka law firm