#15 Thumbay Group
Thumbay Group is a diversified international business conglomerate with its headquarters in DIFC – Dubai. Over the past two decades, the company has spread its wings into various fields of social and business endeavours. What started in 1998 with the establishment of the Thumbay Group by its founder, a third generation entrepreneur from India, Mr. Thumbay Moideen (pictured in the white shirt), has grown into a diversified business group with operations across 20 sectors.
One of those is Thumbay Builders, which has become a leading real estate company in the Northern Emirates of the UAE. Its portfolio of services cover four core areas of real estate development design, construction, project management and asset management which it intends to expand to include property brokerage, leasing and facilities management.
The company is also aiming to grow its business in the next five years. Among its major newest projects is the Thumbay Hospital, a 300-plus-bed teaching hospital, over an area of 356,000sqft, a dental hospital covering an area of 37,000sqft and a rehabilitation centre spread across 27,000sqft, all within the existing campus of Gulf Medical University, where the groups flagship hospital and university is located. The company is also working on a number of projects including a housing scheme for students and staff at the GMU premises. It includes a hotel, separate hostels for boys and girls and staff accommodation over an area of 760,000 sq ft.
