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{{Infobox company
|  name   = Hyderabad Deccan Cigarette Factory
|  logo   = 
|  type   = [[Privately held company|Private]]
|  industry       =Tobacco
| fate = Active
|  founder        = Janab Mohammad Abdus Sattar
|brands           = ''Golconda'', ''Amar''
|  products       = Tobacco
|  caption        = 
|  parent         = 
|  founded   = 1930
}}
The '''Hyderabad Deccan Cigarette Factory''' was established in 1930 at [[Musheerabad]] a suburb of [[Hyderabad,India|Hyderabad]] by Janab Mohammad Abdus Sattar. The factory also known as Golconda Factory  owns ''Golconda'' brand of cigarette. The road junction ''Golconda X Roads'' is named after then popular brand manufactured by this company. The factory which used to manufacture the popular ''Golconda'' brand and ''Amar'' brand of cigarettes, is now a contract manufacturer of cigarettes for [[ITC Limited]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Rathor |first=Swati |date=2017-07-27 |title=Badshahs of smoke: History of another bygone Golconda |url= https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/badshahs-of-smoke-history-of-another-bygone-golconda/articleshow/58864291.cms|work=[[Times of India]] |location=Hyderabad |access-date=2018-11-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=C. S. G. |first= Krishnamacharyulu |date=2011 |title=Rural Marketing: Text and Cases |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dzPbK-etl2QC&q=golconda+cigarettes+brand&pg=PA229 |publisher=Pearson Education India |page=229 |isbn= 9788177589764}}</ref>

Mr. Sattar's son-in-law, [[Shah Alam Khan]] had been running the factory since 1946.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/in-other-news/241017/educationist-industrialist-nawab-shah-alam-khan-no-more.html|title=Educationist & industrialist Nawab Shah Alam Khan no more|date=2017-10-24|website=Deccan Chronicle|language=en|access-date=2019-01-12}}</ref>

The factory in its present form as a privately held company was incorporated in September 1972.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.zaubacorp.com/company/HYDERABAD-DECCAN-CIGARETTE-FACTORY-PVT-LTD/U16001TG1972PTC001536 |title=HYDERABAD DECCAN CIGARETTE FACTORY PVT LTD |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=ZaubaCorp |access-date=2018-11-16 }}</ref>

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[[Category:Hyderabad State]]
[[Category:Manufacturing companies based in Hyderabad, India]]
[[Category:Tobacco companies of India]]
[[Category:Indian companies established in 1930]]
[[Category:Indian companies established in 1972]]


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