A.K.Ahmed honored with BCCI Business Excellence Award
From a timber loader to setting up one of the biggest plywood companies of India
Mangaluru : A K Ahmed, Founder Chairman of prestigious AK Group, was honored with the Business Excellence Award by the Bearys Chamber of Commerce and Industry here on Friday at the Beary Mela that is being held at Townhall, Mangaluru.
Home Minister M B Patil, Urban development Minister U T Khader and many other dignitaries were present during the event.
M Ahmed - an inspiring story of timber loader going on to set up one of the biggest plywood companies of India
M Ahmed, better known as A K Ahmed is the founder chairman of AK group of companies and also the founder chairman of Highland Educational cultural Centre .
AK Group was established under the able guidance of M. Ahmed more than 3 decades ago in the year 1984.Before establishing the company , M . Ahmed was with his father late Abdul Khader Moopa by loading sawn timber in his initial career .
By then came the news of availability of Timber in Perambavoor, Kerala which was suitable for Plywoods and blockboards but was been used as fire wood there. Having understood the potential very quickly ,one of the first frame manufacturing and Peeling machine was established there with PG group .
Later he established his own company in Mangalore in the year 1984 and quickly made its mark in the national and international level .
Ahmed has reached great heights in business because of the virtues and values developed and nurtured in his early life. If one takes a closer look at his journey, three distinct virtues pop up besides perseverance and hard work. These are pioneering spirit, willingness and the most important of all is value for time, for all those people who have closely associated with Mr Ahmed will know the importance of being punctual.
From a humble frame manufacturing unit in 1984 the company has grown across many manufacturing firms which includes plywoods, formaldehyde, particle boards, compress ply, fire rated ply and fire rated doors and even established a manufacturing unit in Myanmar and Vietnam solely for wood based products.
Today AK plywood is considered as one of the best plywood manufacturers in whole of India and the largest from South India. The company is holding one of the widest product range and is in the process of expanding the range even more. Under his able guidance, the company has itself established as a leading supplier to all the leading hotel chains like ITC, taj, raddison, Hilton and many more.
AK group was karanataka’s first plywood company which was ISO certified and holds many certificates for its products. AK group was awarded as rising stars power brands in London in the year 2017 and best manufacturer by MSME in Karnataka in the year 2018.
Apart from plywood and wood based industry , AK Group is expanding its business towards marine food industry, pharmacy, hyper markets in India and UAE , food industry in Indonesia and construction materials also in UAE.
AK Group was started in 1984 with just 18 employees. Today it employs approximately 3000 people in India and around 400 out of India.
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Trump says he called off dispatching envoys to Iran talks
Dubai (PTI): US President Donald Trump said he told his top envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner not to travel to Pakistan to negotiate with Iran, stating on Fox News that "they can call us any time they want”.
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country won't negotiate while the United States imposes a blockade on its ports. Pezeshkian told Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif during a phone call Saturday night that the US “should first remove operational obstacles, including the blockade,” to allow a new round of negotiations, according to the ISNA and Tasnim news agencies in Iran.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi left Pakistan on Saturday evening, two Pakistani officials told The Associated Press. Iran's state-run IRNA news agency said Araghchi is expected back in Pakistan's capital Islamabad on Sunday.
Trump said Thursday that Israel and Lebanon agreed to extend a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah by three weeks after talks at the White House. The meeting was the second high-level negotiation between the two countries this month. The initial 10-day ceasefire had been due to expire Monday.
The Trump administration is placing economic sanctions on a major China-based oil refinery and roughly 40 shipping companies and tankers involved in transporting Iranian oil.
The move announced Friday is part of the administration's threat to impose secondary sanctions on entities doing business with Iran in an effort to cut off Iran's oil exports, which are a key source of its revenue.
Airlines worldwide have begun cancelling flights as the war in the Middle East strains jet fuel supplies and pushes up prices. Experts have offered information to travelers about what to do if a flight is cancelled.
Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country won't negotiate while the United States imposes a blockade on its ports, according to Iranian media.
Pezeshkian told Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif during a phone call Saturday night that the US “should first remove operational obstacles, including the blockade”, to allow a new round of negotiations, the ISNA and Tasnim news agencies reported.
The Pakistani premier described the call as a “warm and constructive discussion”.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi concluded a one-day trip to Pakistan's capital Islamabad on Saturday after meeting with Pakistani military and government officials.
The trip did not produce a breakthrough in efforts to relaunch negotiations after US President Donald Trump canceled a planned trip by his envoys to Islamabad.
Iran's state-run IRNA news agency said Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will return to Pakistan after his current visit to Oman on his way to visiting Russia.
The report said he was expected to be back in Pakistan's capital Islamabad on Sunday and would join other members of his delegation who had gone to Tehran for consultations and “instructions on the topics related to the end of the war.”
