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- Gul Ahmed Textile Mills Limited is a Pakistan-based vertically integrated textile manufacturing and retail company engaged in the production, processing, and distribution of yarn, fabrics, apparel, home textiles, and lifestyle consumer products. The company operates through several core business segments, including Spinning, Weaving, Processing, Home Textiles, Apparel, Retail, and Power Generation. Its comprehensive product and service portfolio includes cotton, blended, carded, combed, compact, and rotor yarns; greige, dyed, bleached, and printed woven fabrics across twill, satin, percale, dobby, and jacquard constructions; finished home textile products, comprising bed sheets, duvet covers, pillowcases, comforters, bedspreads, quilts, curtains, upholstery fabrics, table linen, and institutional linens; ready-to-wear apparel, comprising casual shirts, trousers, formal wear, workwear, uniforms, and denim products; and retail lifestyle merchandise marketed under the Ideas by Gul Ahmed brand, encompassing unstitched fabrics, ready-to-wear womenswear, menswear, children's apparel, footwear, fashion accessories, and home décor. The company distributes its products domestically across Pakistan through a nationwide retail store network and an e-commerce platform, while exporting finished textiles, fabrics, and apparel to institutional clients, retailers, and buying houses across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. Founded in 1953 and headquartered in Karachi, Pakistan, the company operates manufacturing, spinning, weaving, printing, dyeing, and stitching facilities across Sindh. In recent strategic developments, the company initiated a corporate restructuring scheme of arrangement to demerge and carve out its domestic retail division, Ideas by Gul Ahmed, into a separate wholly owned subsidiary to optimize operational focus and retail capitalization. Furthermore, the company has accelerated its transition toward sustainable manufacturing by commissioning rooftop solar photovoltaic installations across its manufacturing units, modernizing its captive power plants, upgrading production capabilities through automated stitching and high-efficiency digital textile printing equipment, and expanding direct-to-consumer digital channels to support global retail and export growth.