MATRIC CARD: 2013606088
CLASS: 1E
LECTURE NAME: MISS
BIOGRAPHY OF SYED MOKHTAR AL BUKHARY
Early life of TAN SRI SYED MOKHTAR SHAH BIN SYED NOR AL-BUKHARY or everyone knows him as Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary was born in 12 December 1951 at Alor Star, Kedah Malaysia. He is the third of seven child was born into middle class family. His family hailed from Hadhramaut, Yemen. Before his father deciding to live in Kedah, his father had to travel as far as central Asia and Thailand for trade and finally settling down in Kedah during the 1940s. When his age is nine years old his family had to send him to his uncle at Johor Baharu for study there because his family have problem with money. Syed mokhtar lived at Johor Baharu and continues his studies until form two before returning to Kedah furthering study to form 5 at Saint Michael’s School. besides that because of he family financial problem he help his mother’s planting and selling vegetable at market and roti canai to make more money for his family besides his used numeric knowledge to help his father in doing daily book keeping.
HIS FIRST STEP INVOLVE IN BUSINESS
His first step that involve in business is in the mid of 1970s when his father’s cattle business ran into trouble because of the foot and mouth disease and the disease was spread all over the country . As a result, nearly all their livestock dead. However, this downturn in event actually had a silver lining. Since then, Syed Mokhtar took over his father’s business and decided never again to involve in the cattle business. As a start, at the nineteen, Syed Mokhtar scoured markets around Alor Setar to buy unsold meat from the vendors there. The meat would then be re-sold to bumiputera traders in the surrounding area. Although these were unsold meat; they were packaged carefully and nicely, and kept on ice to maintain freshness. Therefore, using his experience in handling good quality products,
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