Business icon Anwar Hossain no more

Anwar Hossain, founder and chairman of Anwar Group of Industries, breathed his last on August 17.

He died at the age of 83 at Labaid Hospital in Dhaka.

The veteran businessman had been suffering from dementia and old-age complications.

Namaz-e-janaza of Hossain, the late parliamentarian from Dhaka-8, will be held at 10:30am today at Baitul Aman Jam-e-mosque in Dhanmondi Road 7.

He was the founder chairman of Anwar Group of Industries, The City Bank Limited, Bangladesh Finance and Investment Company Ltd, and founder director of City General Insurance Company Limited.

Hossain, the renowned industrialist and successful business icon, was the chairman of the DCCI Foundation for a long time.

Hossain established Anwar Silk Mills in 1968, the first Bangalee owner of silk mill in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and started marketing the 'Mala Sari' made from the factory that became a much-talked about product at that time.