20 long-form profiles of PSX companies beyond the KSE-100 — paints, gases, steel mills and the great textile houses of Karachi, Multan and Faisalabad. Educational content only, not financial advice. Continue with the previous page, the first market guides or the 44 Learn guides.
Founded in 1990 near Chunian by Shahzad Saleem, Nishat Chunian grew from one small spinning mill into weaving, home textiles, power and retail brands.
Sapphire Textile Mills is the Sapphire Group's listed flagship — a vertically integrated, export-led maker of yarn, fabric, home textiles and garments.
Sapphire Fibres is the Sapphire Group's second listed textile company — a spinner, weaver and denim maker standing in the flagship's long shadow over decades.
Azgard Nine is Lahore's integrated denim maker — a mill that expanded fast, broke under its debts, and kept sewing through a court-approved workout in full.
Colony Textile Mills carries a name from 1946 and a Multan mill among Pakistan's first — a big spinning and weaving house rebuilt for the modern PSX era.
Suraj Cotton Mills is a Lahore-run spinner and weaver built plant by plant since 1984 — Nooriabad, Shahkot and Raiwind — around fine-count yarn quality.
Reliance Weaving Mills is the Fatima Group's listed textile arm in Multan — founded as a weaving unit in 1990, now spinning and weaving for export markets.
Indus Dyeing, incorporated in 1957, is a Karachi-led yarn giant whose Hyderabad mills and group companies supply the denim and towel trades worldwide.
Tata Textile Mills — no relation to India's Tata — is a Pakistani yarn spinner of 1987, merged from three group mills and centred on Muzaffargarh district.
Fazal Cloth Mills, incorporated in Multan in 1966, spins an encyclopaedia of speciality yarns and weaves fabric, powered partly by its own gas plants.
Incorporated in 1988 from S. M. Muneer's rebuilt Din Group, Din Textile spins speciality yarns at Pattoki and Raiwind for knitters and weavers at home and abroad.
Incorporated in Karachi in 1992 and in production from 1993, Artistic Denim Mills turns cotton into finished jeans for brands across Europe and the Americas.
Incorporated in 1987 as a small weaving shop, Kohinoor Mills of Kasur grew into a vertically integrated dyer and finisher with its own power plant and apparel arm.
Incorporated in 1970 with mills at Muzaffargarh, Mehmood Textile joined the KSE-100 in 2024 and left it in the 2026 recomposition — a composite mill's full cycle.
A dead spinning-mill shell in 2016 became Unity Foods, the Sunridge and Dastak challenger to Pakistan's edible-oil giants — and a Wilmar governance battleground.
Incorporated in Lahore in 2007 and listed in 2018, At-Tahur built the Prema brand on farm-controlled pasteurised milk — a small dairy with an outsized quality story.
From a failed 1960s Sukkur sweet factory, the Ismail family rebuilt in Karachi — Candyland in 1988, listing in 1989, then Bisconni, SnackCity and Astro Films.
Incorporated in Karachi in 2010 and listed in 2020, The Organic Meat Company turned halal slaughter at Gadap into an export business spanning the Gulf to China.
Born as an exporter in 2008, Al Shaheer launched Meat One in 2010, listed in 2015, and has since fought losses and loan restructurings to keep its retail dream alive.
Incorporated in Lahore in 1964 as a Pakistani-American joint venture, Shezan turned local fruit into juices, jams and ketchups — and became a PSX fixture.
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