Pakistan’s banks are better positioned to withstand the recession
It is the worst recession that Pakistan has experienced since the 1971 war, according to some measures, and one would typically expect...
When it comes to inflation, food companies absorb some of the blow
It is a slow time in the packaged food industry as the combined effects of a massive currency devaluation and rising inflation...
Marketing’s ideological war: The rise and demise of Ufone’s ‘funny’ advert
It isn’t easy being funny. For sure, the joke you told yesterday during dinner might have killed, but with enough context and...
ETDB: Where Pakistan sends a bureaucrat to do a banker’s job
Somewhere in Istanbul, Javed Aslam must be reflecting on his four-year stint as President of the ECO Trade and Development Bank (ETDB)....
The future of domestic help is a click away, and there are already two players vying to make it their own
Disaster has struck. Your boss is coming over, or maybe it is your in-laws, or even people from school you have not...
After years of expanding its retail footprint, Sapphire turns online
When Sapphire moved into retail, the market noticed. The textile giant – one of the largest in the country and part of...
Every Pakistani bank wants to dethrone Meezan Bank in Islamic banking. Who can succeed?
When a financial institution in Pakistan thinks about its growth strategy, there is one play that every CEO ultimately reaches for: launching...
The extraordinary rise and spectacular crash of Hascol Petroleum
The 12 months ending June 2019 have wreaked havoc to a company that has been the bright star of the Pakistani energy...
Profit Explains: The GIDC saga
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government has recently waived off approximately 208 billion rupees in Gas Infrastructure Development Cess, more famously known as GIDC,...
In a country awash in weapons, running a legal gun shop is a tough business
A report published by Small Arms Survey, a research project at the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, in June...
Waging war against the gawala
It all started with a visit, as all good bureaucratic wormholes do. On the outskirts of Faisalabad, within what is part of...
Highest price, dominant market share: the curious case of Atlas Honda
The company has mostly lower-middle and working class customers. It has the most expensive product on the market, and one that is...
Why Sheikh Imranul Haque’s imprisonment should terrify Corporate Pakistan
Sheikh Imranul Haque has been in jail for approximately one month and nobody in the government – not even the serious looking...
What does Babar Ali want to do with IGI Holdings?
It is practically an axiom in the world of corporate strategy: if you consolidate several separate businesses under a single holding company,...
Beleaguered or privileged: The curious case of Pakistan’s Pharma Industry
The tale is an old one. Medicine is one of those things that all humans need, and that need is what has...