Generation game's big winners at Al Fahim Group - The National

Mohamed Abdul Jalil Al Fahim can still remember when, as a boy, in 1961, his father was approached by a German in Abu Dhabi.

The man was trying to sell the agency rights to Mercedes-Benz to Mr Al Fahim's father Abduljalil, who sold car parts, at a time when there were no proper streets in the emirate.

The salesman asked Abduljalil if he had heard of Mercedes. He had not.

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