Formerly | Innovative Automation and Engineering Ltd (IAEL) |
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Company type | Public |
PSX: AVN | |
ISIN | PK0107501014 |
Industry | Information technology |
Founded | 2003 |
Founder | Bakhtiar Hameed Wain |
Headquarters | The Avanceon Building, Main Multan Road, Lahore |
Area served | Pakistan, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, United States, Kazakhstan [1] |
Key people | Bakhtiar Hameed Wain (CEO) Khalid Hameed Wain (Chairman) |
Number of employees | 246 (2022) [2] |
Subsidiaries | Avanceon FZE Dubai, Avanceon Automation & Control W.L.L Qatar, Octopus Digital |
Website | avanceon.ae |
Avanceon Limited is a Pakistani technology company headquartered in Lahore and active in the industrial automation space. [3] [4]
Avanceon's activities are to trade products of automation and control equipments to provide related technical services. [3]
Avanceon subsidiaries include Avanceon FZE Dubai, [5] [6] Avanceon Automation & Control W.L.L Qatar, [7] Octopus Digital, [8] and Avanceon Saudi for Energy Co. WLL. [9]
Founded in 1989 in Pakistan by Bakhtiar Wain as Innovative Automation and Engineering Ltd (IAEL), the company's majority stakes was acquired by Engro Corporation which merged it with Advanced Automation Associates (AAA) to eventually rebrand it as Avanceon. [10] Avanceon was converted to a public company in 2008. [11] Engro Corp. divested its shareholding in Avanceon in 2012. [10]
In 2014, Avanceon was listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange, following an initial public offering at a strike price of PKR 14. [10]
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