Top 10 Pakistani Brands that have made it to the Worldwide Map

Pakistan has always been a hardworking nation. The nation is making progress and is making its way to the top. With those efforts and ambitions, Pakistani brands can set their marks at a national level and worldwide. These brands have come out at the top and have contributed much to Pakistani exports.

The labels of these brands have remained successful because of their consistent quality. They have relied upon raw material from their own country, which is a plus point. Pakistan has been undermined and underrated for too long.

Some of the top brands in Pakistan have risen so high that they claim a huge chunk of the global market share for some commodities. With slow but sure effort, quite a few industries have made their name known to the entire world.  

Pakistan is a hardworking nation that has housed many national and international brands. Many Pakistani brands recently have gotten so much success and positive feedback from the crowd that even onlookers worldwide can recognize them. Included in the top international brands of Pakistan are Tapal, Shan, Khaadi, Qarchi, J., Servis, ChenOne, Alkaram Studio, Bareeze, and Markhor.

 Listed below are the top ten brands that were able to make Pakistan appreciable around the globe.

1. Tapal tea

Tapal is a Pakistani tea brand based in Karachi. Tea is a popular and well-known beverage in South Asia. It is sold and used worldwide. Because of its popularity, it gave idealists a vision to manufacture an impeccable company known as Tapal.

Tapal's legacy goes back 70 years. It all started from a small retail outlet of a man named Adam Ali Tapal in Jodia Bazar, Karachi. Adam Tapal started importing tea from Ceylon. He was successfully able to establish his first brand in his attempts to sell and market the tea. He named it FAMILY MIXTURE initially in 1980.  With the ambition to produce the best tea, he could produce and sell 0.5M kgs of tea. In his efforts, he further introduced more tea mixes such as:

●        Tezdum

●        Mezban dust

●        Chenak dust

●        Danedar

●        Green tea with various flavors

Gaining popularity with time, Tapal started to export its products around the globe. This company holds specific values and morals that keep them motivated to ensure quality. With this motive, Tapal exports tea in more than 20 countries, including Saudi Arabia, Canada, Australia, and America.

2. Shan

Shan food limited is a Pakistani company that produces mixed spices to make specific cuisines. Shan's history started in 1981, when a vision of a philanthropist, SIKANDER SULTAN, became a reality. Shan emerged as the pioneer of mixed spices and is called the KING OF MIXES. Shan spices made cooking easy by including all the spices in packaged form, making them notoriously popular in all the markets. These spices have a unique and undeniable place in Pakistani and Indian households.

The company packs its rich and aromatic spices with the finest quality ingredients that make their demand globally. On account of their affordable prices and excellent quality, Shan took the global stage and started selling internationally. Shan now exports to 52 countries and five continents across the globe.

3. Khaadi

Khaadi is a clothing brand that started its journey in 1998 in Zamama, Karachi. Shamsul Hadi started it with his mother's name and from then has worked very hard on it. Khaadi comes from the Urdu language, meaning 'hand-woven.' Over time, Khaadi has become one of Pakistan's top clothing brands. It produces clothes of the finest quality.

Khaadi has proven to be the most innovative brand in the textile fashion industry in Pakistan. Khaadi, with its unique sense of fashion and morals, is preserving the Pakistani culture through its designs. Khaadi created their hype across the world successfully and now have many outlets around the globe. It manufactures apparel for women, men, and children in printed and hand-embroidered designs.

Khaadi established its roots internationally by selling its products in Dubai in 2010. Having almost 52 stores across Pakistan and 22 stores across the UK, and various stores worldwide, they continue to snowball.

Khaadi has recently launched its new series Esra Bilgic X Khaadi, featuring the Ertagrul famous actress, Esra Bilgic, as its brand ambassador, proving to us how trendy and up to date they are.

 

4. Qarshi

Qarshi Industries is one of the largest natural products companies in Pakistan. It is a modern and progressive industry that manufactures and markets leading products that have become household names. As a leading manufacturer of natural and organic products, Qarshi is busy promoting healthy living for over seven decades. It offers a blend of age-old Oriental and Greek herbal preparations with the latest science and technology advancements to provide safe and compelling benefits to its customers.

Its initiation was in the shape of a clinic at Beadon Road in Lahore, in the heart of the province of Punjab, opened by Shifa-ul-Mulk Hakim Muhammad Hassan Qarshi. He was a practitioner of herbal medicine and health supplements. The founder started the clinic to provide natural and effective herbal medicines to the general public.

Qarshi, with its stick to the nature policy, was able to make a mark around the globe. It has created its image as a quality-conscious company and has demonstrated its firm commitment to quality over the years.

Qarshi products include pharmaceutical syrups and refreshing syrups, which are in demand worldwide owing to their organic nature. People love these, not just because they are healthy and have no side-effects, but because they taste amazing as well!

5. J.

J. was established in 2002 with a unique idea to revive the country's cultural heritage. The founder of this clothing brand, Junaid Jamshed, had a motive behind its creation. This motive was to make Shalwar Kameez, the national dress of Pakistan, more recognized and familiar. J. has become one of the most famous and recognizable clothing brands in South East Asia.

It all started with an outlet at Tariq Road, Peshawar, in 2002. Tariq Road was and still is, a shopping center for those who seek to buy the latest fashion products and trends. People come from all over the country to buy their clothes, and it is also a tourist shopping spot. Primarily, only men's wear was available, but later on, clothing for women, children, infants, and formal wear, including groom's wear, was also added to the catalog.

With Pakistanis residing worldwide, demand for a good clothing line started to rise, and within a short period, J. had expanded its reach to the international markets. Its 50-plus outlets in Pakistan alone is a testament to its efforts to become the country's largest fashion retail brand. Best of all, each outlet has a new and inspiring outlook where customers can shop in comfort. This innovativeness truly justifies that the company has won the 'Brand of the Year Award' in the fashion retail category for three consecutive years.

Aside from J.'s extensive network of branches all across Pakistan, J. has also set foot in the Middle East and The UK. The brand has a presence in Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Bradford, and a new branch to open in Saudi Arabia. The brand is effectively a one-stop-shop for clothes for all seasons and all occasions.

 6. Servis

The story of 'Servis' begins with friends who established Service Industries almost 80 years ago. These young men, named Ch. Nazar Muhammad (Late), Ch. Muhammad Hussain (Late) (both from Gujrat district) and Ch. Muhammad Saeed (Late) (from Gujranwala District) joined hands to start a business in 1941. They set out at a small scale in Lahore, not knowing that they will be among the top exporters in Pakistan one day. Back in the 1940s, they were only manufacturing handbags and some other sports goods. Within years their business flourished remarkably, and they were supplying their products to every corner of India at the time of Partition.

In 1954, they installed a shoe manufacturing plant in the industrial area in Gulberg, Lahore. They started production in the same year. The industry started making various types of shoes, handbags, and other goods. Later, management shifted the factory from Lahore to Gujrat. Service Sales Corporation (Pvt.), a limited liability marketing company, was established in 1959. Humility, fairness, and respect were the values close to these founders' hearts, and it was these values that led to the phenomenal success of the brand over the years.

Servis is the largest footwear exporter in the country for the last ten years and exports its products to many destinations worldwide.

7. ChenOne

Introduced as Pakistan's first retail store globally, ChenOne foundations were laid down by Mian Muhammad Latif in 1997. The company was under the Companies Ordinance 1984 as a Private Limited company. The owner Mian Muhammad Latif, a retail business pioneer, opened the first public branch of the ChenOne retail store in Jinnah Super Market, Islamabad. The company was converted into a public company on April 18, 2003.

ChenOne is famous for making a wide range of products which are backed by their quality and warranty. ChenOne provides customers with a complete range of Clothes for men, women, kids, footwear of all kinds, bed linens, furniture, and even kitchen accessories. ChenOne quickly gained much clout and positive feedback from the customers that it promoted the owner to open numerous branches worldwide.

In 1985, ChenOne went international. The fact that ChenOne had the smart ability to stay with the trends and revolutionize with the world made them so favorable in the public eye. They started in the east and slowly moved forward. At present, ChenOne branches could easily be found by shoppers in Europe and the USA. Not to forget, ChenOne now has branches in more than 42 countries worldwide.

8. Alkaram Studio

Alkaram Studio is Pakistan’s leading and versatile clothing brand. It was initially started as a vertically integrated composite textile mill in 1986. Regarding fashion, fabrics in lawn, cotton, chiffon, and ready-to-wear clothes, Alkaram Studio builds its strength to complete creative concepts for its customers. They kept the short lines of communications while securing its identity. It is continuously working hard to enhance its products and now has global digital exposure to reach out the international audiences through its E-commerce website.

9. Bareeze

Breeze is a famous Pakistani fashion brand established in 1985. Based in Lahore, this high-end super fashion retailer started getting attention throughout the globe. Its clothing line includes different types of embroidered fabrics for men and women. They have mastered the art of textile embroidery and revive the local tradition. Breeze has its outlets in almost all the big cities of Pakistan and four other countries India, Malaysia, the United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates.

Breeze is the Pakistani top-rated textile brand that is as legendary and colorful as its products. Breeze is providing their best every season, and they range from women ready to wear to unstitch dresses to kidswear. The brand is serving its best.

10. Markhor

Markhor is founded by Sidra Qasim and Waqas Ali when they met with the craftsman group in the village of Okara. This brand is named after the national animat yet an endangered species, Markhor. Their main goal is to establish Pakistan as a fine exporter of leather products globally.

The brand consolidates an age-old art with cutting edge outlines to take into account worldwide urban customers. For more than five long years, they have effectively distinguished indigenous shoe-production ability; build its capacity to a global standard. They claim to make and deliver handmade shoes in just five days. In this luxury era, Markhor shoes fully integrate the values essential to their brand.

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Conclusion

These brands have made their place in the world with hard work, determination, and fairness. They are a reason to be proud of the efforts of Pakistani citizens. The quality of these brands is remarkable, and their products are incredibly reliable. These brands were established decades ago and have had remarkable success both at a national and international level. More national brands like these are continually rising in Pakistan and are slowly climbing up the ladder of success.