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Mishal Kanoo

August 5, 2014

Bahraini businessman Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo, chairman of family conglomerate Kanoo Group in the United Arab Emirates and Oman, has died, aged 72.

Bahraini businessman Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo, chairman of family conglomerate Kanoo Group in the United Arab Emirates and Oman, has died, aged 72.

Kanoo, who helped the company expand from its early shipping roots, died over the weekend, after a three-decade battle with diabetes.

Kanoo turned the company, established in 1890 by Haji Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo, into one of the largest family-owned businesses in the Gulf.

Today the group is focussed on retail, logistics, chemicals, shipping, oil and gas, and travel.

August 20, 2013

In a rare interview, CampdenFB talks to Mishal Kanoo, deputy chairman of one of the Middle East’s top family businesses, the Kanoo Group.

Family life is extremely private in the Gulf. In a way, it is not surprising that people who dress so conservatively, with women shrouded in black and men cloaked in white, should be so guarded in showing a public face. In the same way, family businesses in the Gulf Cooperation Council, which make up the vast majority of the successful corporations there, are curiously reluctant to share their successes with the press. For this reason, the willingness of Mishal Kanoo, deputy chairman of the GCC-based Kanoo Group, to speak to CampdenFB, is all the more remarkable.

December 13, 2012

A man committed to improving transparency, accountability and business practices in the Arab world has been named philanthropist of the year at the inaugural Campden Middle East Philanthropy Awards, in association with Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank.

A man committed to improving transparency, accountability and business practices in the Arab world has been named philanthropist of the year at the inaugural Campden Middle East Philanthropy Awards, in association with Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank.

Arif Masood Naqvi, a board member of the private sector-led non-for-profit Pearl Initiative, saw off competition from Fadi Ghandour and Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber to take the award at a ceremony this week at the Yas Viceroy Abu Dhabi Hotel.

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