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Al Ghurair Group
Al Ghurair Group is a Dubai-based family conglomerate with interests in steel, packaging, real estate, retail, and food.
Al Ghurair Group is one of Dubai's oldest family business empires, a sprawling collection of companies that makes everything from the steel bars inside buildings to the plastic containers on supermarket shelves.
The group's industrial core is built on two things: steel and packaging. Its steel business, operating as Al Ghurair Iron & Steel, makes flat steel products and is one of the largest players of its kind in the Gulf. Its packaging arm is even more dominant — the group helped build what became one of the biggest packaging operations in the Middle East and Africa, making cans, plastic bottles, and closures for food, beverage, and household brands. Walk through a Gulf supermarket and much of what you grab is sitting inside packaging the group made. Beyond factories, the family owns a big property portfolio and a retail and food empire. Its development arm, Al Ghurair Properties, builds and manages residential, commercial, and hospitality assets, including the Burjuman mall, a Dubai landmark. Through Al Ghurair Foods and its retail and restaurant operations, the group also has a hand in the food and consumer business that serves the region's growing middle class. The money comes from industrial manufacturing (sold to other businesses and to packaging customers under long contracts), rent from tenants across its property portfolio, and sales through its food and retail businesses. What sets the group apart is patience: this is a family-controlled private business, not a public company chasing quarterly numbers, and it has spent decades compounding a portfolio across whatever industries the region needed to grow — steel for its buildings, packaging for its products, and property for its people. Its main rivals are the other big Gulf conglomerates that play in the same industries, but its edge is age, scale, and deep roots in Dubai's economy.
The group was founded by the Al Ghurair family, one of Dubai's most prominent merchant families, and remains closely held today.
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