City Group

City Group was established by Fazlur Rahman, a business magnate in the private sector of Bangladesh. City Group began on 6 February 1972 as a mustard oil company venture. After its first project, City Group invested in new fields, including manufacturing, industry and trading. More enterprises were established in the early 1990s; these included consumer goods, foods, steel, printing & packaging, shipping, power and energy, shares and securities, insurance, media, and healthcare.

On 4 October 2017, the government of Bangladesh approved the export of 57,273 tones of sugar by Deshbandhu Group and City Group.

Controversy

On 14 July 2022, A Chittagong court issued an arrest warrant for City Group Chairman Fazlur Rahman, in a case filed by the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) for not maintaining standard Vitamin A levels in soybean and palm oils.

Prior to that, on 20 October 2019, BSTI inspector Rajiv Dasgupta filed a case as the group's "Teer" oil failed to pass the "Vitamin-A" test in BSTI lab. In the case statement, the allegation was brought against Fazlur Rahman saying that he violated the government order and act by not following edibles oil fortification with Vitamin A Act-2013.