ACHIEVEMENTS Less than 1% of family-owned businesses ever survive beyond the fifth generation. Yet The Kanoo Group, a sixth generation family-owned business has not only survived but has achieved tremendous success despite two World Wars and several economic depressions. The Kanoo Group insists on implementing world-class business excellence models to achieve the highest standard of quality in all its businesses. Kanoo Shipping, Kanoo Commercial Group, Kanoo Rapid Transit and Kanoo Travel are all ISO 9001:2000 certified. Kanoo Travel was MARKET the first travel company in the Middle East to Since the seventies the UAE has enjoyed a achieve this international certification. meteoric rise to fame and the world no longer The Kanoo Group strives towards meeting looks at the UAE and thinks only of oil and global standards and ensures it excels at gas. Today the UAE is a reputable exporter of the exacting quality and business excellence world-class products and services ranging from standards set by the UAE government. The everyday necessities to highly specialised items. Kanoo Group is the only corporate group to At the forefront of this economic revolution have won Quality Awards in and Abu lies The Kanoo Group. It is one of the largest Dhabi for consecutive eight years from 2000 independent, family-owned group of companies to 2007 in the Gulf region with products and services in In 2000 Kanoo Travel won the Dubai Quality Chamber of Commerce and Industry shipping, travel, machinery, logistics, property, oil Appreciation Programme certificate. In 2001 with the Sheikh Khalifa Excellence Award -Gold and gas, power, chemicals, training and a whole Kanoo Travel became the first ever travel and SKEA Appreciation Certificate respectively. lot more. company to win the coveted Dubai Quality The Kanoo Emiratisation Programme, Operating throughout , , Award while Kanoo Machinery took its turn Shababona (‘our youth’ in ), is a prime UAE, , , , Iraq and Sudan, the as the Dubai Quality Appreciation Programme example of The Kanoo Group’s enterprising Kanoo Group sets the pace for progress and certificate holder. It was also the year that saw spirit. It helps train and recruit young UAE development in the entire Gulf region. an unprecedented event in the history of the nationals in various business vocations and In the last few years Kanoo Shipping Dubai Quality Awards – the first time ever that sets the benchmark for both the private and Agencies has evolved from a shipping agent H.H. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, government sectors in the UAE. specialising in liner business to being the region’s Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE premier tanker agent and offshore service and Ruler of Dubai, honoured two companies HISTORY provider. Kanoo Travel has evolved to provide in the same group for their quality and About 118 years ago the Kanoo Group’s a sophisticated array of business excellence. founding father, Haji Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo, travel services specialising In 2002 Kanoo Administration took over the small family business of trading in corporate travel, airline became the first winner of the in basic commodities in Bahrain. He began to representation and marine prestigious Dubai Human Development modernise the business by chartering a boat to travel. Kanoo Machinery Award. 2003 saw Kanoo Machinery trade in commodities such as rich spices, rice, tea is moving on from being a winning the Sheikh Khalifa Excellence and exotic timber along the coasts of South-west leading materials handling Award and Kanoo Shipping winning the , and Zanzibar. equipment distributor to Dubai Quality Appreciation Programme From Bahrain the business spread to Saudi being the leading solutions certificate while 2004 saw Kanoo Arabia in the 1930s and, early in the 1960s, provider giving the market the Machinery win the Dubai Quality the roots of The Kanoo Group took hold in widest product offering from Award. Kanoo Travel won the Sheikh Abu Dhabi, Dubai and . The oil boom ‘sale only’ to ‘full off balance Khalifa Excellence Award Appreciation catapulted the Kanoo family from its early trading sheet contract rental’. in 2005 and the Sheikh Khalifa Excellence Award and shipping business to the empire that today Today there are over 1,000 people working in 2006 while Kanoo Oil & Gas Division was represents one of the most diversified business for The Kanoo Group and its joint ventures in honoured with the Sheikh Khalifa Excellence houses in the Gulf. the UAE, each of them working towards the Award Appreciation. In May 2007 The Kanoo The Kanoo family have remained true to their common Kanoo goal of being an innovative Group became a member of the prestigious early values. This adherence to ethics and beliefs leader in the UAE market satisfying its customers, European Foundation for Quality Management. made The Kanoo Group an essential component suppliers, employees, owners, society and In January 2008 Kanoo Machinery and Kanoo of the UAE’s business life. government. Power & Industrial Projects were honoured by One of the first industries The Kanoo Group

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