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Biography
Mahmud Abdullah Kamani (born August 1964) is a British businessman, the co-founder of and joint CEO of Boohoo.com.
Early life
Mahmud Abdullah Kamani was born in August 1964.
His father Abdullah Kamani left Kenya in the 1960s, and moved to north-west England with his wife and four children. Abdullah started by selling handbags on a market stall, before starting a family textile business, supplying New Look and Primark.
Career
Boohoo was founded in 2006 by Mahmud Kamani and Carol Kane, who are joint chief executives.
Boohoo also runs boohooMAN.com and PrettyLittleThing.com, and all of the brands are targetted at 16-24 year olds.
In April 2017, Boohoo announced that its profits had almost doubled to £31 million on sales up by 51% to almost £300 million. When the company was floated on the stock market in 2014, it was valued at £560m, and is worth about £2 billion as of April 2017.
Personal life
He is the father of Umar Kamani and Adam Kamani, who co-founded, PrettyLittleThing.com, which was later bought by Boohoo.
His brother Jalal Kamani is trading director of Boohoo.