Established in 1988, Ismail Industries Limited is one of the largest and most prominent business conglomerates in Pakistan. Ismail Industries Limited has a diverse business portfolio, ranging from food products and packaging to pharmaceuticals and power generation, along with significant investments towards CSR projects. Ismail Industries’ food businesses include CandyLand, the largest confectionary company in the country; Bisconni, Pakistan’s fastest-growing biscuits company; Ismail Nutrition, Pakistan’s only UNICEF-approved food supplier, with dedicated production for specialized food supplies to UNICEF and the World Food Program, battling malnutrition locally and globally; and Ghiza, a newly set up flour mill and cereal manufacturing facility capable of producing various grades of flour and fortified children’s cereals. Astro Films is the flexible film manufacturing business of IIL; it is one of the country’s largest flexible packaging manufacturers, supplying BOPET, CPP, and BOPP films locally and internationally. Ismail Resin is the second packaging business, manufacturing bottle-grade and film-grade PET resin. The pharmaceuticals division consists of Hudson Pharma, while power generation consists of investments in renewable energy as part of a consortium called Act Group.

Ismail Industries’ CSR projects include provision of clean drinking water for underprivileged areas of Karachi, managed by the Ismail Foundation; and a fully funded education initiative comprising of a school (Ismail Academy) and a college (Khadija Girls College). The Group recently concluded a Tree Plantation Drive aiming to convert various barren parks and university grounds in Karachi into green fields, achieving our goal to plant 20,000 trees in December 2019.