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M. J. Textiles, established in 1992, is operating in several different fields
of the textile industry. Based in the megalopolis of Karachi, Pakistan,
but with a truly national reach and beyond, its major areas of concentration
are:
• Textile Manufacture
• Textile Wholesale
• Fabric Retail
While the Pakistan saga of M. J. Textiles began in 1949, the history of
the company goes back 120 years. Originally named Walijee Nathoobhai Textile
Traders, the business was first founded in 1890 by Walijee Nathoobhai, in
Jetpur, India, a city that is part of the modern-day Indian state of Gujarat.
Its production facility began life on a fairly small scale, with just a
few handlooms, though it soon started to expand. However, the founder could
not stay away for an extended period of time from the long-established family
business of textile trading. After a few years, he began to import fabrics
from Japan and the major focus of the business was on textile trading. To
enhance the efficiency of this enterprise, the founder’s two sons,
Hassan Ali and Ismailjee, set sail for Japan in 1940 and only returned to
India in 1942. Despite its modest beginnings, the business continued to
expand and grow, both geographically and financially.
After the subcontinent was partitioned in 1947, the two brothers made regular reconnaissance trips to the new state of Pakistan to explore business opportunities. In 1949, Hassan Ali’s son Rajab Ali, and Ismailjee’s son Ali Bhai, migrated to Pakistan at the behest of the family. With the business acumen they had inherited from several generations of a seasoned textile trading family, they established a wholesale shop in the heart of the country’s largest wholesale cloth market located on M. A. Jinnah Road, in the then capital city of Karachi. Initially, they began dealing in imported grey and dyed fabrics, which were supplied to a growing clientele of garment manufacturers, retailers and to industries for industrial use. However, when textile imports were banned by the government in the early 1960s, they switched to dealing in local brands, again with a considerable measure of success.
In 1962, the senior partners of the parent business in India decided the time had come for the two branches of the family to bifurcate their business interests. As a result, Rajab Ali established a new business in Karachi under the name of R. Hassan Ali Traders.
Following the family tradition, R. Hassan Ali Traders’ operations grew steadily and rapidly, and very soon Rajab Ali Hassan Ali began to give serious consideration to the necessity of diversifying the business. This goal was made possible because his four sons, Hussain, Ali Akbar, Zainul Abedin and Mansoor, have all in turn joined the family business and today look after different aspects of its operations.
In the mid '80s, while specializing in the sale of 100% cotton fabrics, the business launched toll manufacturing operations under the brand name of Multitex Fabrics, with 50 power looms, providing its own specifications for yarn count and warp and weft, and supplying its own designs for manufacture.
Finally, in 1992, a company was registered, under the name and style of M. J. Textiles, to launch its own manufacturing operations.