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Unicorn Far East Limited

Historically Unicorn Far East Limited is the changed named of Unicorn Bangladesh Limited while the mother company was Unicorn bv. the Netherlands. Unicorn bv. was founded by Mr. Victor Weijen Berg in the Netherlands in 1962 with mission of hunting overseas business. His initial selection was Asian countries, accordingly visited then East Pakistan and decided to import Jute and Jute Products. The country achieved victory of liberation and Bangladesh appeared as one of the countries in the world map on 16 December 1971 in place of then East Pakistan, whilst Victor awoke his earlier practice to visit Bangladesh since early 1972 to explore further business possibilities and at the first instance could notice crisis in aviation sector, particularly Biman Bangladesh Airlines though was named and inaugurated but without any aircraft. Victor was dynamic business personality with optimistic mindset and besides, he had enormous credentials and reputation among high officials of the Netherlands government and capitalizing so, he with the written approach from the highest authority of Bangladesh, could manage Dutch Grant in order to supply 5 nos. Fokker F-27 and 2 nos F-28 for the fleet of Biman Bangladesh Airlines. At the same time and for local requirements he floated Unicron Bangladesh Limited as daughter Company of Unicorn bv. the Netherlands. Supplying above 7 nos. Fokker aircraft (5 nos. F-27 & 2 nos. F-28) was first business contract of Unicorn in Bangladesh and subsequently till 1988 Victor being foreigner and a professional businessman could acquire large number of projects from different public sectors in Bangladesh by way of his accrued credentials, reputation and integrity. All above projects were implemented on turnkey basis and that includes Supply, Installation, Commissioning, Testing and Handover. Most projects were implemented by different Dutch companies and quite some from other countries including USA and Unicorn acted as local associate for all projects to liaise between procuring entities and suppliers for implementation per schedule, to provide required local supports to experts of overseas, smooth functioning of payment schedules to the suppliers and etc.