I have explained before how companies take a step ahead to enter new markets, well now i understand why Sultan Center Kuwait made a move and acquired the Wasabi brand from Good Food company. Wasabi will branch out now in the GCC region becoming a Kuwaiti chain going regional, and offcourse Sultan Center management are smart, because they can easily handle such business because of there background in food handleing / operations and retailing. Plus they are expanding too, GCC wise. So why not support other brands like Wasabi. Imagine how many countless malls are popping up in Kuwait, now imagine Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and UAE. This may surly take some years to complete, but when done who can compete against them. Creating a brand, recruiting chefs from Green valley in the Philippines now turned into a GCC chain. So what does Good Food company do with the 5million KD buyout, create more brands i guess. Some start to think why did i not come up with such a concept, looks fairly simple yah. Well the same idea came to a guy in Good Food company, but he had the resources to support his idea, and you too can. These business venture are not a one man show but a whole orgnizational project, when i  say resources i mean financial resources, these plus experties etc etc..but hold on; these financial resource are a well studied plan with loans but from a business structure not the ones you take from your branch. So what i’m saying here is that when you’ve got a strong feasible idea, dont be afraid to follow it through and you may be surprised where you end up, 6al7a most probably:P 

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5 Responses to “Expanding to the GCC”

  1. Blue Dress says:

    lol.

    “be afraid to follow it through and
    you may be surprised where you end up, 6al7a most probably”
    even the most absurd ideas would work if you were confidenat enough.

    Question wasabi the resturant?

  2. aha says:

    actually good food is 100% owned by sultan center

  3. Qaiss says:

    Blue Dress: yep the restaurant, that many of my friends hated because it sold “simach nay”…now everybodies an expert in japanese:P go figure

    aha: true you smart bogger:P

  4. Hasan.B says:

    I am hearing alot of good news today and this one is one of them! Wasabi in more than one country and hopefully in dubai? Nice! And true fear plays a major part. Just last year myself and a couple of friends had a good idea, I think, for a new restaurant but the fear of ending up in “6al7a” stopped us!

  5. moocherx says:

    Luckily, restaurants seem to do well in Kuwait.

    Otherwise, places like Wasabi would go the same way as Zain: when operating in other GCC countries, realise how much easier they are to do business in, and close down their Kuwaiti operations for being comparatively way too much effort to run.

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