Company · Analysis · 29 Oct 2026
National Tea Company: twelve Sylhet tea estates selling below cost, with a BDT 1.05bn FY2025 loss, negative equity and a going-concern warning
Turnover fell to BDT 715m in FY2025 while cost of goods sold was BDT 1,176m and finance cost BDT 498m; bank loans reached BDT 4,433m, the auditor qualified the accounts, and BDT 2.77bn of new shares at BDT 119.53 took the share count from 6.6m to 29.75m.
National Tea Company Limited grows, makes and sells black tea. It was formed in 1978 to take over nine tea estates from the government under a disinvestment scheme, and in 1982 it acquired four more estates. One of those four, Patiya, was never handed over,…