Latifur Rahman (businessperson)

Latifur Rahman
Native name	লতিফুর রহমান
Nationality	Bangladeshi
Occupation	Industrialist, chairman of Transcom Group
Spouse(s)	Shahnaz Rahman

Latifur Rahman is a Bangladeshi comprador and businessperson. He serves as the Chairman of Transcom Group which is the local agent or comprador of numerous international brands like Pizza Hut, KFC, Pepsi and Philips.

Rahman started his career as a trainee in 1966 in his family-owned jute mills in Chandpur District. He worked as an executive in the mills until 1971. Rahman established Transcom Group in 1973 after W Rahman Jute Mills, the major earning source for the Rahman family, was nationalised in 1972. In the 1980s, Rahman became the sole importer and distributor of Nestlé products in Bangladesh. In the 1990s, he bought Smith, Kline & French, a US-based pharmaceutical which had merged into Beecham Group, a British company, and renamed it Eskayef.

Rahman was elected a member of the executive board of the Paris-based International Chamber of Commerce for a three-year term in July 2014.

Rahman serves as the Chairman of the following companies.

Rahman is married to Shahnaz Rahman. Together they have two daughters Simeen Hossain, managing director of Eskayef Bangladesh Limited, Transcom Consumer Products Limited as well as Transcom Distribution Limited; and Shahzreh Huq, and a son, Arshed Waliur Rahman. Another daughter, Shazneen Rahman, was killed at their home in Gulshan, Dhaka in 1998. Simeen's youngest son, Faraaz Ayaaz Hossain, was killed in the 2016 Gulshan attack.

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