Jahangir Khan Tareen

Born in 1953, Mr. Tareen received his early education from Saint Mary Rawalpindi and Sadiq Public School, Bahawalpur and stood for his matric and F. Sc. Exams from Karachi. He graduated from F.C. College in Lahore. Upon graduation, he proceeded to the United States of America for higher education and was awarded the degree of Masters in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina in 1974.

Mr. Tareen brings with him, rich and varied experiences in the private as well as the public sector. After a teaching stint in the Department of Public Administration, University of the Punjab, Mr. Tareen joined Grindlays Bank, Lahore for a short period of three years.

After leaving the Bank in 1978, Mr. Tareen ventured into Farming at his family farm in Lodhran. He developed and enlarged it by buying a nearby piece of completely barren land which he developed over a period of 20 years. Mr. Tareen now manages an over 2000 acre mango, cotton and vegetable farm using the most modern farming methods.

Mr. Tareen’s experience in business world began when he was made the CEO of his family-owned beverages business in Multan in 1981. Over the next eight years, he increased the business manifold and in the year 1989 Pepsico International offered him a franchise in Lahore. Mr. Tareen took over the franchise in 1991 as the Chairman of Riaz Bottlers (Pvt) Limited and developed it into one of the Pakistan’s best operating franchise. He went into sugar business and established his first sugar mills in 1992 as JDW Sugar Mills. This has grown into Pakistan’s largest and most efficient Sugar milling operations (JDW Sugar Mills). This is the only Sugar Mill in the country, which is supported by its own Sugarcane Plantation (30,000 acres) and Sugar cane research organisation. The Mills runs an extensive community development programme geared towards increasing yield and profitability of small farmers while also funding education and health initiatives in its area of operations. The per acre yield of sugarcane in Rahim Yar Khan has doubled due to the Cane Development Program of JDW Sugar Mills. While per acre production cost has been reduced by innovative cultivation and production techniques. It’s due to the combined efforts of sugarcane development, farmers’ training, motivating farmers with timely payments, that sucrose recovery in the operating area of JDW Sugar Mills jumped from 8.2% to almost 11% in 2016.