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 Fawaz Al Hokair What can we not say about Dr.Fawaz AlHokair? He graduated from Loughborough University in Britain and he is the boss of Al Hokair group. He is the fashion changer for the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Fawaz Al Hokier is a very successful person. He mastered fashion, malls and food changes in Saudi Arabia. This essay will talk about his awards, stores and his partnerships. We chose Fawaz al hokier because he is a very successful person he is the father of fashion in Saudi Arabia. Also he has many medals, awards and works everywhere. Firstly, Fawaz al Hokair changed the path of fashion in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Fawaz was the first business man to bring fashion franchises in Saudi Arabia. In 1989 he opened two menswear stores and after that in 1990-91 he open the ladies store “Victoria store”. We are going to state his fashion stores by category. For the Department stores, He opened “GAP”, “MARKS&SPENCER”,”ZARA” and “ALDO”. For the young fashion he opened “Bershka”, “celio”, “JACK&JONES”, “Jennyfer”, “Miss selfridge”, “NEWYORKER”, “Pull and Bear” and “URBAN BEHAVIOR”. And for the fashion boutique, He opened “Banana Republic”, “CORTEFIEL”, “Desigual”, “Massimo Dutti”, “promod” and “UTERQUE”. For the Lingerie stores, He opened “La SENZA”, “LaVie en Rose” and “oysho”. For the kids fashion He opened “adamskids”, “EXIT”, “SeRGeNT MaJoR”, “tapeaLoeiL”, “Toutcomptefait” and “VERTBAUDET”. For the Ladies fashion He opened “Ann harvey”, “ANOTAH”, “Camaieu”, “COSTABLANCA”, “FOREVER NEW”, “le chateau”, “Monsoon”, “NEW YORK & COMPANY”, “Papaya”, “pimkie”, “QUIZ”, “VERO MODA”, “WAllis” and “xanaka”. For the Sports, He opened, “SPORTS CITY”. For the Shoes and accessories, He opened, “NINE WEST”, “Accessorize”, “ANNE KLEIN”, “CHARLES & KEITH”, “Clanks”, “eclipse”, “Spring”, “THIS & THAT” and “VISS”. Secondly, Fatwa Al-Hokair also takes his place at malls. he open the biggest and the most famous “Sahara Plaza” in Riyadh mall in 2002.And in the 2003 he opened 2 malls “Bin khaldoun plaza” dammar and “khurais plaza” Riyadh. And in 2004 he opened “nakheel plaza” in Riyadh. Also in 2005 he opened “salaam Mall” in Riyadh and “Aziz mall” in Jeddah and “Mall of Dhahran” in Dhahran. Thirdly, He didn”t Forget the Food entertainment did he? No he didn”t. He opened “Al Balad” restraint A Lebanese style restraint they serve food like the retail way “Lebanese Way” and its located in AL-Khobar, “Carvel” is one of the best ice cream American brands that serve hand-dipped cones, cups, sundaes, and unique shape ice cream cakes, “Cinnabon” is an international fresh bakery every cinnamon roll is baked fresh and served hot out of the oven. “Pans & Company” is a Spanish custom-made sandwich shop. Customers can custom their sandwich”s from a wide selection of fresh Toppings. “The Pizza Company” offers customers new cheese blends and a greater variety of toppings. “Seattle”s Best Coffee” making a good cup of coffe has been every ones dream. However, Seattle”s best now a day is not a coffee shop only but now it”s leading the best coffee brands. “Swensen`s” was founded in San Francisco in 1948; SwensenS has become a synonymous with extraordinary, delicious ice cream. SwensenS provides a huge menu with over fifty sundaes and thirty ice cream flavors. “TonyRomas” this restrains has the best ribs in the world along with the amazing taste that got the taste award all over the world. “Vapiano” a "fresh casual" pizza restraint that aims to change the concept of how the world views pizza. “Zyng” this restrains is a fresh Asian dining differenced than others with the colorful, funky environment with aromas and sound of the orient. Forthly, here are some finance income of Fawaz alHokair company they state ,“A net profit of 315.47 million riyals, compared with 231.5 million riyals in the previous year, an increase of 36%, Earnings per share amounted to 4.51 riyals versus 3.31 riyals in the previous year, Gross profit amounted to 1.139 million riyals, compared with 942.5 million riyals in the previous year, an increase of 21%, Operating profit amounted to 261.9 million riyals, compared with 240.9 million riyals in the previous year, an increase of 9%”, The reason for the rise in gross profit and operating profit compared with the previous year to increase sales in the Saudi market and the results of the international company. Moreover, it is the rise in net profit to rise in other income earned during the year” . Thias information was reported in Mubasher.info. This show us how successful and how rich he is. Least but not last, Here are some pictures of Fawaz Al-Hokairs stores, malls. 1- 2-

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Finally, His Profs of him being a successful business man are his awards; he has been given 3 medals “OECD” medal, the “ARADO” and the “GGC”.

Pictures from: Photograph 1: site: http://www.kelmagasin.com/photos/xanaka.jpg Photograph 2: site http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/5736005.jpg photograph3: site: []

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