Laura Gardner Cuesta

Nov 9, 2024 | bloomberg.com | Nicolas Parasie |Dinesh Nair |Laura Gardner Cuesta |Alex Sazonov

Yusuff Ali arrived in the United Arab Emirates as a teenager in 1973, when the country was populated by just half a million people. He opened his first grocery store in the capital Abu Dhabi the next year, before embarking on an expansion spree on the back of a years-long oil boom.