{"id":6838,"date":"2014-08-18T17:05:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T17:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/08\/18\/guest-of-honour-at-iab-annual-dinner-announced\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T13:55:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T13:55:47","slug":"guest-of-honour-at-iab-annual-dinner-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/18\/guest-of-honour-at-iab-annual-dinner-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest of Honour at IAB Annual Dinner Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hussein Lalani co-founder of 99p Stores is guest of honour at IAB annual dinner<\/h3>\n
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The guest speaker at this year\u2019s Institute of Asian Businesses annual dinner and awards is one of Britain\u2019s leading entrepreneurs, Hussein Lalani.<\/div>\n


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\nMr Lalani is a co-founder of 99p Stores, which has just opened its 250th store in the UK, in its home town of Northampton, and is on course to record a turnover of \u00a3500m this year. <\/p>\n
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\n99p Stores was set up by Nadir Lalani and his two sons, Hussein and Faisal, in 2001. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Lalanis have retailing in their blood – Nadir Lalani first came to Britain in 1973, from Tanzania, where he owned a wholesale business and general store. In the UK, he established and sold two convenience store chains, before moving into discount retailing with his two sons. <\/p>\n
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\nThe first 99p Store was in Holloway, with three others opening in the same year, and it was the collapse of Woolworths six years ago that helped the family accelerate the growth of their business. The family took over 80 former Woolworths stores, which was a massive expansion of the firm. <\/p>\n
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\nMr Lalani said: \u201cMy dad started with a typical Asian corner shop in Muswell Hill. One of the Woolworths stores we took over was opposite to it. <\/p>\n
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\n\u201cThis is very much a family business, and the great inspiration for me was my grandma, who ran a wholesaling business in Tanzania. <\/p>\n
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\n\u201cMy message to the IAB event will be a bit of an inspirational one as well \u2013 I want to show that everyone can achieve anything, with hard work, smart work and having your family behind you, you can achieve anything.\u201d <\/p>\n
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\nIAB president Saqib Bhatti said: \u201cI am very excited to have Mr Lalani, founder and managing director of 99p Stores as our keynote speaker. <\/p>\n
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\n\u201cI have no doubt he will follow our prestigious list of annual dinner speakers from past years and captivate our guests with his story of how the 99p Stores grew to be a high street stalwart with many millions in turnover.\u201d <\/p>\n
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\nThis year\u2019s IAB dinner and awards takes place on 29 November at Birmingham\u2019s International Convention Centre, and is expected to attract a capacity crowd of 500. <\/p>\n
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\nMr Bhatti said: \u201cThe IAB Annual Dinner has proved to be one of the top engagements on the Birmingham business social calendar and this year will prove to be no different. <\/p>\n
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\n\u201cIt is an evening jam-packed with entertainment, awards celebrating the region\u2019s top business talent, great food and of course networking with the top businesspeople and institutions from across the West Midlands.\u201d \u00a0 <\/p>\n \n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hussein Lalani co-founder of 99p Stores is guest of honour at IAB annual dinner The guest speaker at this year\u2019s Institute of Asian Businesses annual dinner and awards is one of Britain\u2019s leading entrepreneurs, Hussein Lalani. Mr Lalani is a co-founder of 99p Stores, which has just opened its 250th store […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}