Ali Merchant

I started my career in Industrial Sales and Marketing after graduating in Top 5 of my class, My first experience with Sales was with Noon Group of Companies in Pakistan which is one of the oldest indenting house in Pakistan for Industrial equipments, having Principals from all across Europe, here I participated in strategically restructuring the business for the company with the changing global environment. With a dedicated team we were able to enhance the volumes by 100% during 2005 - 2009. After Four years of working with Noon International I developed interest towards consumer goods and was offered a Job by Lucky Knits Pvt Limited, a joint venture between "Yunus Brother" the biggest Textile Group in Pakistan & Grupo Karims in United States.

At Lucky Knits I utilized by skills and adapted quickly to a fast moving market of Textile Apparels, dealing with customers in different parts of the world primarily USA. In a year's time a European division was launched to diversify the business profile and limit our exposure to a recession hit USA. After running it successfully for the past 3 Years & making it grow to a 25 Million $ company from 18 Million $s in 2009, have decided to move on to greater challenges in life. In Feb 2013 launched a Textile Sourcing company Merchant Group "www.merchant-grp.com", having Partner offices in UK, Pakistan and US. The dream is to make the sourcing group a name to be reckoned with and contribute in what ever manner possible towards the development of poverty stricken areas of developing countries.