The initial company under the name of 'Golden Gulf Company' and was the brainchild of Arun K Johar, a British National and accountant by profession, who worked as a manager for an electrical firm for two years in Oman before conceiving Golden Gulf Company on January 1, 1980. Prior to this he worked as an accountant/manager in the UK for 10 years. Mr. Ali K. A. Al Shaihani had by coincidence just commenced his own adventure into business under 'Ali Shaihani Trading and Contracting Establishment' and incidentally was Arun Johar