Saga Of Success

Sanjay Gupta Chairman, APL Apollo.

Thousands of miles, uncounted hours andinfinite determination are the three elements that punctuated a young man’s journey from Mumbai to the Middle East in the 1990s. He is a man with the Midas touch – Mr Rizwan Sajan, Founder–Chairman, Danube Group, one of the region’s most successful business conglomerates.

Mr Sajan started Danube as a supplier of building materials to hundreds of projects during Dubai’s construction boom. He built his company into an undisputed market leader for building materials in the emirate, and steadily leaving his footprints in the real estate industry and home-interior solutions. Established in the year 1993, Danube began as a dream with a small trading enterprise, and today that dream has transformed into a reality. Over the last 25 years, Danube has charted a path that transformed itself from being with just one shop with one employee to a global employee strength of over 3,600 at over seventy plus locations across MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region.