[3] Michel and Widad Chalhoub started their business in Damascus in 1955.
After the successful military coup of Syria and the economic uncertainty, they were compelled to move to Beirut.
[4] A decade later, due to the Lebanese Civil War, they relocated to Kuwait where the company flourished and their sons, Anthony and Patrick, joined the Group.
In 1990, after the invasion of Kuwait, followed by the Gulf War, they established an exile operation in order to keep the company going.
[5] Michel Chalhoub was married to Widad, and they lived in Dubai.