Saif Ahmad Al Ghurair (Arabic: سيف أحمد الغرير; 1924 – 27 August 2019) was an Emirati billionaire businessman, CEO of the Dubai-based Al-Ghurair Group, a large company in the UAE's real estate and manufacturing sectors.
[2] In 1960, he founded the Al Ghurair Group, a company which has interests in banking, steel and packaging.
[2] In 2004, his group opened a second Burjuman Centre with an office tower, hotel and luxury service apartments.
[3] In 2006, he formed the company Taghleef Industries through a merger of Dubai PolyFilm with Technopak of Egypt and AKPP in Oman, and it became one of the world´s largest manufacturers of polypropylene films, lamination and food packaging.
[3] A stormy boat trip to India in the 1930s to sell dates left him blind in one eye.