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Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo

Bahraini businessperson

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Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo, also known as Haji Yusuf, was a Bahraini merchant and trader who, in 1890, took over his father's business and started the trading empire that would grow into the Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo Group, one of the largest independent trading companies in the Gulf region.

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Kanoo introduced a number of innovations to Bahrain, including setting up the country's first bank and its first petrol station. He built a significant regional business in shipping and trading agencies, which brought him into conflict with British companies and authority, before seeing much of his holdings wiped out by the financial crisis that followed in the wake of the collapse of the pearling industry in the Persian Gulf.

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When was Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo born?
Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo was born on 1868.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia (English): Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo · CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Wikidata item Q107389483 · CC0 1.0
  3. Image: Tkg-family.jpg by Mishal Kanoo (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Last updated · facts checked 7 November 2026

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