Why Pakistani big companies don't go to international market?

100% agree with you.. the sole proprietors here are 95% risk averse...they don't like to take risks...
and can u give me an example of any ever-growing seth company?

I agree..

@ Faiq: ARY , Getronova etc ...

hmmm... Getronova.. what business they are into?

They are sole (only) manufacturer of Plastic resins in PK and the Giant in Plastics Industry in Asia ... (owned by a Memon seth)

Oh dats great... can you tell me their website i f they have any...?
And these memon seths are too good with their businesses... many major construction companies in Arab emirates are owned by them like Giga that is owned by Pardesi group... and if I'm not wrong i think A.R.Yaqoob is also Memon, not sure..!

gatronova.com

thanx :)

yea business is in their blood ... they are like born entrepreneurs ...

so true! :)

Banks are more likely to go international as it is the need. I don't know about lawrencepur. ARY is being operated from Dubai.

ARY is now being operated from dubai... Buh it was started from khi by Abdul Razzaq Yaqoob...

yeah ....

Umm I dont agree.. Expansion is not running your company from outside Pakistan like ARY . It means running your business for international consumers which include 'operating outside Pakistan'. Unfortunately, We are lagging behind in that

I know thats not expansion...buh ARY started off from Khi ...which supposingly a city witthin Pakistan... ;)
ummmm... on the other hand well I dn't think its 'unfortunate' that our big companies are lagging behind in operating outside Pakistan... the reason is for every company the first and basic aim or goal is to MAximize Shareholder's Wealth...how ever they do it... internationalizing the company is not the core purpose of any company (i suppose)... And if the company is successfully maximizing the SHW by operating in the home country, then i dnt think so they should opt internationalization until and unless opputunity is there... coz there are many risks involved when u go international... buh if u see you can cope up with the risks and can do better, then why not, definitely they'll internationalize...!!

I will quote example of Star bucks here .. You know for around 13 years, that company operated on break even. They were reinvesting all their profits and expanding within US. And go public only when they started expanding outside US. Maximizing shareholder's wealth is never the goal of successful corporations.

Well thats an exceptional case... We are talking about corporations in Paksitan not others, why successful corporations in Pakistan don't go int'l... coz they are majorly concerned with wealth maximization not the expansion... and they are ok with it...!!

But they shouldn't be okay with it.. This is why multicorporations are eating us up

Yeah they shudn't be buh here problem arises that is mentioned by Hassan... the Seth thingy.. the Pakistani businessmen are just into making money... and spending it only where they are sure they'll get the return... Kinda Selfish loacal giants we have!

Isn't it disgusting?

Well i will call it 'susti'. They are pretty lazy in planning :/

Well its not the only reason... Its not necessary that a big company dat is doing well within Pakistan will prove profitable when internationalized... There are alot of risks involved... Easy to say 'its disgusting', difficult to understand the problems why they don't do that... :)
C'mon they have their well experienced masterminds and better planners then we are...!! ;)

The 'Seth Company Culture' of Pakistan is actually Disgusting ...

true hassan.
kind of logical answer of faiq.

thanks naveed :)
Hassan what do you mean by the term 'Seth'?? :O

@ Faiq : refer to my answer

ok :)