Style Textile tops Pakistan’s Top Exporters List.

List of Pakistan’s top 100 Exporters was released last week and us usual this year’s top exporters list also had no surprises, as it was dominated by textile sector. Almost 70% of the contributors were from textile-sector. All of the top 10 exporters were also from textile-sector with seven of them from Karachi, two from Lahore and one from Faisalabad. These top 100 Exporters effected a contribution of $10.36 billion to country’s economy. Rice-sector with 9% contribution on the list came second and contributed around $700 million to national treasury.

Lahore based Style Textile topped the export-sales list for second consecutive year with export-sales amounting to $428 million. Last year their export-sales stood at $333 million. This shows an increase of 33% from their last year’s figures.

Interloop from Faisalabad jumped from sixth spot (last year) to reach second (this year) with the figures of $331 million export-sales. This also shows a very significant increase of 55% from their last year’s figures of $214 million.

Artistic Milliners stood their ground by gaining third position for second consecutive year. They bettered their previous year’s exports-sales from $278 million to $329 million, which accounted to an increase of 18%.

Yunus Textile Mills bagged fourth position with export-sales of $311 million this year. Last year they were at $221 million and this year they managed to increase their export-sales by a wide margin of 41%.

Nishat Mills Limited with export-sales of $307 million dropped from last year’s second position to fifth position this year. Last year, they managed $291 million.

Gul Ahmed Textile Mills was also on the list of achievers. They jumped from eighth position to sixth position. Their figures rose by 39% from last year’s $205 million to $284 million this year.

Feroz 1888 Mills Limited with export-sales of $273 million this year bagged seventh position and rose by 38% from their last year’s figures of $198 million.  

Soorty Enterprises Limited dropped from fourth position down to eighth position. Their year’s sales figures stood at $268 million against their last year’s figures of $259 million showing a difference of 3% only.

Artistic Fabrics & Garments Industries bettered their last year’s sales figure by 20%. This year their export-sales figures stood at $226 million against their last year’s export-sales figures of $189 million.

Liberty Textile Mills managed to jump into top ten by capturing the last available slot. They bettered their stats by 25% and managed to bag $216 million against their last year’s figure of $173 million.

Novatex (plastic-chips manufacturer) and Garibsons (rice-sector) are the only two exporters in top-twenty list not hailing from the dominant textile-sector. Novatex with $167 million stood at sixteenth position and Garibsons with $165 million bagged eighteenth position.

List of Top Pakistan Exporters FY21 (July 2020 – Jun 2021)

S No	Exporter Name	Sector	Export Values ($)
1	Style Textile (Pvt.) Limited.	Textile	428,759,315
2	Interloop Limited.	Textile	331,537,613
3	Artistic Milliners (Pvt.) Limited.	Textile	329,632,053
4	Yunus Textile Mills Limited.	Textile	311,923,178
5	Nishat Mills  Limited.	Textile	307,317,737
6	Gul Ahmed Textile Mills Limited.	Textile	284,252,792
7	Feroze1888 Mills Limited.	Textile	273,039,063
8	Soorty Enterprises (Pvt.) Limited.	Textile	268,143,664
9	Artistic Fabric & Garment Industries (Pvt.) Limited.	Textile	226,415,664
10	Liberty Mills Limited.	Textile	216,326,718
11	Masood Textile Mills Limited.	Textile	213,054,203
12	Sadaqat Limited.	Textile	209,224,399
13	U.S. Apparel & Textiles (Pvt.) Limited.	Textile	197,498,500
14	Al-Karam Textile Mills  (Pvt.) Limited.	Textile	185,247,888
15	Nishat (Chunian) Limited.	Textile	169,697,038
16	Novatex Limited.	Plastics	167,489,965
17	Lucky Textile Mills  Limited.	Textile	165,794,827
18	Garibsons (Pvt.) Limited.	Rice	165,649,074
19	Denim Clothing Company	Textile	148,581,206
20	Klash  (Pvt.) Limited.	Textile	139,158,322
21	Sapphire Finishing Mills Limited.	Textile	137,346,873
22	Gohar Textile Mills  (Pvt.) Limited.	Textile	126,778,506
23	Kamal Limited.	Textile	125,751,078
24	Riaz Textile Mills (Pvt.) Limited.	Textile	121,094,919
25	Sapphire Fibres Limited.	Textile	111,874,602
26	Sapphire Textile Mills Limited.	Textile	111,352,033
27	Crescent Bahuman Limited.	Textile	105,840,072
28	Azgard Nine Limited.	Textile	105,719,381
29	United Energy Pakistan Limited.	Oil & Gas	104,980,135
30	Al-Karam Towel Industries (Pvt.) Limited..	Textile	97,217,112
31	National Refinery Limited.	Oil & Gas	90,882,000
32	Rajby Industries	Textile	89,343,482
33	Diamond Fabrics Limited.	Textile	88,346,305
34	Lucky Cement Limited.	Cement	88,326,974
35	United Towel Exporters (Pvt.) Limited.	Textile	87,458,230
36	Faisal Spinning Mills  Limited. – Unit 1	Textile	86,165,573
37	Indus Dyeing & Mfg. Co. Limited.	Textile	84,377,543
38	Hassan Ali Rice Export Company	Rice	83,480,976
39	M.K Sons (Pvt.) Limited.	Textile	82,486,408
40	Meskay & Femtee Trading Co (Pvt.) Limited.	Rice	81,626,014
41	International Steels Limited.	Steel	80,907,246
42	Master Textile Mills  Limited.	Textile	79,734,397
43	Arshad Corporation (Pvt.) Limited.	Textile	78,488,879
44	Kohinoor Textile Mills  Limited.	Textile	78,225,990
45	Beacon Impex (Pvt.) Limited.	IT Services	77,876,579
46	Getz Pharma (Pvt.) Limited.	Pharmaceuticals	74,981,349
47	Proline (Pvt.) Limited.	Textile	70,542,644
48	The Crescent Textile Mills  Limited.	Textile	70,385,240
49	Akhtar Textile industries (Pvt.) Limited.	Textile	70,189,263
50	Roomi Fabrics Limited.	Textile	68,977,169
51	Asif Rice Mills	Rice	68,854,482
52	Fazal Cloth Mills Limited.	Textile	67,700,710
53	Al-Rahim Textile Industries  Limited.	Textile	67,524,998
54	K.K. Rice Mills  (Pvt.) Limited.	Rice	67,346,069
55	Attock Cement Pakistan Limited.	Cement	67,300,363
56	Combined Fabrics Limited.	Textile	66,550,457
57	Mahmood Textile Mills Limited.	Textile	66,509,426
58	Afroz Textile Industries (Pvt.) Limited.	Textile	66,375,206
59	Stylers International (Pvt.) Limited.	Textile	66,328,336
60	Kohinoor Mills Limited.	Textile	65,474,718
61	Kam international	Textile	65,261,749
62	MN Textiles (Pvt.) Limited.	Textile	65,078,246
63	Kamal Textile Mills (Pvt.) Limited.	Textile	64,182,879
64	DHL Pakistan (Pvt.) Limited.	Logistics	62,741,660
65	Irfan Noman Brothers (Pvt.) Limited.	Rice	62,437,898
66	Pak Petro-Chemical Industries (Pvt.) Limited.	Chemicals	62,258,180
67	Gadoon Textile Mills Limited.	Textile	62,209,046
68	Bismillah Textiles Limited.	Textile	61,895,263
69	Meskay & Femtee (Pvt.) Limited.	Rice	61,283,188
70	D. G. Khan Cement Co Limited.	Cement	61,133,950
71	Naveena Exports Limited.	Textile	60,264,361
72	Masood Fabrics Limited.	Textile	59,956,050
73	Cotton Web (Pvt.) Limited.	Textile	59,909,597
74	Artistic Denim Mills Limited.	Textile	59,150,315
75	Reliance Weaving Mills Limited.	Textile	58,616,325
76	Union Fabrics (Pvt.) Limited.	Textile	58,420,193
77	Staple Foods (Pvt.) Limited.	Rice	58,407,599
78	Indus Home Limited.	Textile	58,372,599
79	Mustaqim Dying & Printing Industries (Pvt.) Limited.	Textile	56,951,680
80	Artistic Apparels (Pvt.) Limited.	Textile	56,828,471
81	Eastern Garments (Pvt.) Limited.	Textile	55,447,784
82	International Textiles Limited.	Textile	54,827,486
83	Matco Foods Limited.	Rice	52,742,523
84	Kassim Textile (Pvt.) Limited.	Textile	52,732,339
85	Shafi Gluco-Chem (Pvt.) Limited.	Chemicals	51,204,075
86	Utopia Industries (Pvt.) Limited.	Textile	50,951,547
87	Shan Foods (Pvt.) Limited.	Herbs & Spices	50,026,049
88	Siddiqsons Limited.	Textile	49,991,284
89	Ayesha Spinning Mills Limited.	Textile	48,815,856
90	Unicol Limited.	Ethanol	48,056,544
91	BeltexCo Limited.	Textile	47,194,842
92	Kings Apparel Industries (Pvt.) Limited.	Textile	46,835,864
93	Bedouin (Pvt.) Limited.	Textile	46,826,573
94	Mughal Iron & Steel Industries Limited.	Steel	46,491,336
95	J.B Industires	Textile	46,255,992
96	Crown Textile	Textile	45,690,683
97	Pelikan Knitwear	Textile	45,592,221
98	US Denim Mills (Pvt.) Limited.	Textile	45,378,925
99	K.M Enterprises	Surgical	45,355,935
100	Kamal Hosiery Mills	Textile	45,313,901
	TOTAL VALUE of Top 100 Exporters		10,360,555,964

Rice sector had nine(09) contributors in the list followed by three (03) from cement-sector, two(02) each from steel-sector, oil-gas-sector and chemical-sector. One each contributor from plastic-sector, pharmaceutical-sector, ethanol, herb, spices, logistics, IT services and surgical goods completed the list.

Rice Sector Exporters FY21 (July 2020 – Jun 2021)

S No	Exporter Name	Sector	Export Values ($)
1	Garibsons (Pvt.) Limited.	Rice	165,649,074
2	Hassan Ali Rice Export Company	Rice	83,480,976
3	Meskay & Femtee Trading Co (Pvt.) Limited.	Rice	81,626,014
4	Asif Rice Mills	Rice	68,854,482
5	K.K. Rice Mills  (Pvt.) Limited.	Rice	67,346,069
6	Irfan Noman Brothers (Pvt.) Limited.	Rice	62,437,898
7	Meskay & Femtee (Pvt.) Limited.	Rice	61,283,188
8	Staple Foods (Pvt.) Limited.	Rice	58,407,599
9	Matco Foods Limited.	Rice	52,742,523
	TOTAL VALUE – RICE SECTOR		701,827,823

Strengthening the creative industries across Pakistan with a grant opportunity in eight different categories.

The British Council and DEMO have announced the opening of applications for the Creative Communities Empowerment programmes – DICE Creative Hubs. Under the British Council’s Developing Inclusive and Creative Economies (DICE) programme, this empowerment programmes will support and curate eight meaningful activities enriched with powerful industry specific content. Enabling like-minded people to come together to dream, share, imagine, innovate and explore ideas.

A grant of PKR 1,070,000 each will be given to eight creative organisations in the following categories: Fine Arts and Handicrafts, Software Development, Music and Performing Arts, Literature, Film-making, Architecture – Interior Design and Industrial Design, Fashion and Textile and lastly Graphic Design. DEMO together with the selected organizations, will be co-designing creative hub activities in the form of meet-ups, workshops, dialogues, online marketplaces, performances, showcasing, screening events and more to strengthen the sustainability of their creative practices in the ecosystem.

Talha Chishti, Head of Programmes at British Council Pakistan added: “DICE Creative Hubs is a wonderful opportunity for the Pakistani creative industry to collaborate and work together on the pressing issues of their communities and create a meaningful impact for the community members”

The programme is open for small organisations or artists collectively working in the creative industry, including but not limited to, art-galleries, design-studios, maker-spaces, co-working spaces, fab-labs or artists-run spaces are welcome to apply. The applicants eligible should have been operating for at least 1 to 5 years with revenue less than PKR 5 million/annum.

 Muhammad Bin Masood, CEO at DEMO, while speaking at the virtual launch commented; “creative hubs are not just ingenious solutions providers, they are institutions that foster and breed creativity towards a prosperous creative economy by recognizing potential and igniting growth through innovation.”

The last date to apply is 11^th February 2021. The eight selected grant recipients will be executing the DICE Creative hub activities by the end of March 2021. To find more about the program, visit: www.demo.org.pk/creativehubs

About DEMO:  DEMO is the implementing partner in Pakistan of the DICE Creative Hubs project, DEMO is a purpose-driven ideas consultancy that takes a human-centered and technology-driven approach in addressing the critical development challenges of today. Since the inception, DEMO has mobilized & impacted over 20 million people across Pakistan on themes of entrepreneurship, technology, design, art, culture, healthcare, innovation, and enterprise development. DEMO will be co-designing the activities with the Creative Hubs grantees. Link: www.demo.org.pk

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