Rizwan Sajan & Danube
Rizwan Sajan is an Indian businessman . He is based in the UAE . He is founder and chairman of Danube Group, UAE's largest diversified conglomerates with building materials, property, construction and home furnishings.Sajan reached 7th and 8th in Top 100 Indian Business Owners In The Arab World for the years 2015 and 2018, respectively. In March 2018, he relaunched the Filmfare Middle East Magazine Sajan was born in a middle-class family in Mumbai. He lost his father at age 16. As a teenager, he started selling books and fireworks to support his family. At age 18 he went to Kuwait for a job but the war changed everything and he returned to Mumbai in 1991. Sajan moved to Dubai in 1993 and began working at a hardware store for AED 1,500. He started his own business with his wife Sameera, his first employee. He established Danube as a small trading firm in 1993 with a few hundred dirhams. Today the company's turnover exceeds $ 1.4 bn and operates in 50 plus loc