Mohammed Mahtabur Rahman (Nasir), Managing Director of Al Haramain Group of Companies, was in the UK to meet with the UKBCCI on 31st January. Present at the meeting, which took place at the UKBCCI offices, were the organisation’s President Bajloor Rashid MBE, along with its Director of Financial Affairs, Nazmul Islam Nuru, as well as directors Oli Khan, Harun Miah and Abdul Quayum Khalique (Jamal).
UKBCCI Director and award winning Managing Director of Neela’s Homes Ltd, Neela Farzana Hossain, has been awarded the Fellowship of The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). “I’m very happy and proud to have received this honour,” said an elated Hossain. ” It offers me great encouragement and to do more, not just for our community, but also for society as a whole.” The RSA is a London-based, British organisation committed to finding practical solutions to social challenges. Its founding charter has been to ‘embolden enterprise, enlarge science, refine art, improve our manufacturers and extend our commerce.’
A courtesy meeting took place between the UKBCCI Directors and Dr A K Abdul Momen, former Bangladesh Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Individuals included Iqbal Ahmed OBE, UKBCCI Chairman, Bajloor Rashid MBE, UKBCCI President, Azad Ali, UKBCCI Director of International Trade Affairs and M A Gani, Director.
Chairman of UKBCCI Iqbal Ahmed OBE, receiving the National Export Trophy Award from Rt Hon Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina on 1st January 2017.
Brothers Abdul Quayum Khalique (Jamal), who is also a UKBCCI director, Abdul Khalique (Junel) and Abdul Muhith (Joynal), all three of whom own the internationally renowned Taj Stores in London’s famed Brick Lane, were awarded one of the prestigious British Bangladeshi Who’s Who 2016 awards at the gala dinner held on 17th of November at Meridian Grand in London. The brothers received their award from H. E. Mr Nazmul Quaunine, Bangladesh high commissioner to the UK, who was accompanied by Mohammed Shofiqul Islam, Country Manager of Biman Bangladesh Airlines UK and Ireland.