Economy of Wazirabad

.It ranks as the third largest industrial centre in the country, after Karachi and Faisalabad, in view of the availability of raw material and skilled labour. The Gujranwala Chamber of Commerce and Industry(GCCI) is the representative body of traders,and has around 3,800 registered members, while there are also several unregistered businesses that operate informally.

The nature of industry here is varied and vast with major part of light engineering industry besides textile, leather, electrical engineering, auto industry.ceramics, cutlery,manufacturing plants and large agricultural processing plants and many others.The major development is that the manufacturers of quality products have devolved on exports, Its annual export is 700 million $.Apart from export, the industry has lowered the import bill to around 1.2 billion dollars by producing items locally that were previously imported from other countries.The major industrial companies in Gujranwala include Sunny Sports(manufacturers of high quality exercise equipment), Master Industries, Super Asia Industry(also awned Hardees restaurant in Pakistan), Mughal Steels, Paklite,Pakson(Boss),Sonex,Golden Fuji, Gujranwala food Industries(JOJO) .

The main source of energy is a hydro-electric project on the Chenab River. The city also has a dry port that has contributed to the export growth of the city.

As of June 2012 Pakistan's electricity problems were so severe that violent riots took place all across Punjab. According to protesters load shedding in Gujranwala was depriving the city from electricity 22 hours a day, causing businesses to go bust and making living extremely hard