A small flower shop set up in 1990 in Dubai by three brothers from a small village in Tamil Nadu's Thanjavur is today a flourishing Rs 1,400-crore enterprise, supplying flowers to the whole world.
Black Tulip Group has—over its three-decade journey—grown from strength to strength, quietly establishing its presence in the global market as a wholesale supplier of flowers.
The company, run by Mohammed Ehiya, his elder brother Basheer Ahmed, and younger brother Sadiq Basha, owns around 8,000 acres of farmland across Kenya, Ethiopia, and Hosur (India), employing around 10,000 workers. It exports flowers such as roses, orchids, gypsophila, and lilies to Dubai, Malaysia, Singapore, London, Netherlands, Germany, France, Switzerland, Moscow, Ukraine, Japan, Australia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the UK.
Ehiya, Co-founder of Black Tulip, claims their company occupies the second position globally in flower production and export. "Efforts are on to capture the top spot in a couple of years," he says.
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