Navana Group is one of Bangladesh's largest private sector groups and has a strong and distinguished business history. In the year 1953 Alhaj Jahurul Islam, one of the dynamic business magnets of Bangladesh started his journey through the establishment of a construction company, named Bengal Development Corporation (BDC) and soon enough successfully expanded his business into the real estate and automobile sector by setting up new companies i.e., Eastern Housing Limited and Navana Limited respectively. After the inception of Navana Limited (pre-arranged through agreement of TOYOTA of Japan under an exclusive distributorship, to market Toyota cars in the then East Pakistan) in the year 1964, the business throve rapidly and the formation of Islam Group took place under the Chairmanship of Alhaj Jahurul Islam.