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In 2007, the Al Rostamani Group, a Dubai-based conglomerate made up of 15 companies in the booming energy-rich economy of the United Arab Emirates, was celebrating its 50th birthday.
With businesses diverse fields ranging from automobiles to trucks to electrical engineering, and from construction to securities trading and more, the conglomerate was thriving as the Gulf States of the UAE underwent rapid growth, fueled in large part by....