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== G Premjee(formerly Gangjee Premjee) is a family-run group of companies started by a Gujarati merchant Khetsee and his son Devjee Shah in Bombay and Burma. Rangoon, then part of the British India colony, was the headquarters of the company intil 1962. The Shahs bought rice from throughout Asia and sold it in Africa and beyond, making deals by mail and later by telegraph. After the Burmese coup in 1962, the government most Indians from Burma. The company had had a branch office in Bangkok since 1918, the family moved there.

In the 1970s G. Premjee diversified from rice to other agricultural commodities like corn, sorghum, beans, canned foodstuffs, sugar, wheat, coffee and barley. It used drawing its strength from its existing contacts in West Asia and Africa. It has more recently also been active in other businesses such as manufacturing (rubber gloves, pharmaceuticals etc.), travel agency, shipping, real estate development, hotels, research and development, hybrid seeds, and port infrastructure development. Its trading activities now include fertiliser, animal feed, coal, steel, garments and construction materials .[2].

Precious Shipping Thailand’s biggest dry-bulk shipper boasting a fleet of 44 ships is a part of this group. Kirit Shah founded the company in 1989 and took it public 1993. His daughter Nishita Shah is listed in Forbes Thailand's 40 richest .[3] and in the GenNext billionaires' list .[4].

Also see

 * Nishita Shah