The mechanics of retail with Baraka’s Ahmed Ragab
After almost 50 years of competition, why would two companies choose to merge? Is it as simple as the big entity buying the smaller one, or is there more to the story?
On this episode of Making It, Ahmed Ragab joins Patrick to share how things actually played out for him.
Ragab is the CEO and Partner at Baraka Retail Group. This past May, Ragab sold control of Baraka Optics to Maghrabi, via a merger through acquisition, where Maghrabi bought 51% of his company. He chose not to walk away, even though he could have.
Baraka launched in 1979 as a wholesale business focusing on optics. Today, they…
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