Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo

Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo, also known as Haji Yusuf, was a Bahraini merchant and trader who, in 1890, took over his father's business and started the trading empire that would grow into the Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo Group, one of the largest independent trading companies in the Gulf region.^[1]

Kanoo introduced a number of innovations to Bahrain, including setting up the country's first bank and its first petrol station. He built a significant regional business in shipping and trading agencies, which brought him into conflict with British companies and authority, before seeing much of his holdings wiped out by the financial crisis that followed in the wake of the collapse of the pearling industry in the Persian Gulf.

^ Onley, James (2007). The Arabian frontier of the British Raj : merchants, rulers, and the British in the nineteenth-century Gulf. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 50–55. ISBN 978-0-19-152785-2. OCLC 225124444.

[:1-1] Onley, James (2007). The Arabian frontier of the British Raj : merchants, rulers, and the British in the nineteenth-century Gulf. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 50–55. ISBN 978-0-19-152785-2. OCLC 225124444.

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