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Abdul jaleel bajwa is the founder of EKAL . His brother and his two sons are partners of EKAL. Total of 4 partners are running the business. All partners have active role in the business. Abdul Jaleel Bajwa was also the senior vice chairman of surgical association of Pakistan. He was also a president of labor union for 15 years. Abdul Jaleel belongs to a poor family. He was unable to continue his education because of different family problems. So he left school at the age of 8 and started working as a assistant and learn about surgical instrument polishing. He improved his skills until the age of 14. That was very tough time for him because of his age. He joined a company and started working as a full time employee at the age of 14. He worked there for 2 years and learns about the business. He was interested to start his own business because he knew everything about his field and his own experience motivated him to take next step. He bought machinery, hires 2-3 people and started his work in his own house. At that time he was also working in another company, QSA surgical .He was taking good pay which helped him in early stages of his own business .After few years his brother came from abroad. They decided to expand their business because he had capital and he knew all about foreign market. They converted there full house into factory and started taking new contracts with the help of QSA. Within 6 to 7 years they brought a whole factory which they expand every 4 to 5 years.
Current State
Ekal is currently exporting Dental Instruments Veterinary Instruments Beauty Instruments Hardware Instruments Surgical Instruments
In Beauty Industry Ekal Instruments proliferate by adding huge amount of products in its catalog list from Cuticle Nippers to tweezers and Professional Barber Scissors. Ekal is catering Latin American market mainly for its beauty products.
Surgical Instruments are lucrative in Germany and Ekal is working from its initial stages to cater the German market for Surgical Instruments. Now in 2010 Ekal is having customer base in Germany for its surgical instruments including forceps, retractors and some other different instruments. Ekal entered into hardware industry by manufacturing Hardware Scissors, Pliers and some Fishing Instruments and its hot selling product is the Household Scissor which is having huge market share in Mexico, Argentina and Brazil.
Main Research
How many hierarchal or job grades?
There are 5 hierarchal/job grades in the company.
Partners/Head of Departments
Managment
managment
Supervisors
Supervisors
supervisors
labor
labor
labor
labor
labor
Every done salary indexation of salary survey, if yes then with whom?
No formal salary survey is done but as the owner of the organization Mr.Abdul Jalil bajwa was also the chairman of Pakistan Surgical Association so they had accesses to the internal market information.
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Presented by:
OMAIR AKRAM ZUBAIR SALEEM KAMRAN FAZIL AHSAN KHALID