More wealth equals more expensive eating habits. Al-Katib predicts that in 30 years time we, in Saskatchewan, will be serving a very different client base. As meat products require exponentially larger water and nutrient levels to grow, Al-Katib sees vegetable-based proteins, like pulses, emerging as a major supplement to people's diets. Murray Al-Katib built his company, AGT Food and Ingredients, into a global powerhouse. MONTE CARLO, Monaco • For the second time in 10 years, a Canadian has won the title of World Entrepreneur of the Year. The world's top-seeded entrepreneur is now Murad Al-Katib, a former civil servant from Regina who quit his job in 2004 to go door to Murad Al-Katib, President, Chief Executive Officer and Board member of AGT Food and Ingredients Inc. An international agri-food, strategic business and financial thinker, Murad founded AGT Foods in 2001, building a Canadian start-up into a global billion-dollar value-added, plant-based protein company supplying pulses, staple foods and ingredients to customers around the globe. Al-Katib was born and raised in Davidson, Sask., a town of 1,000 located halfway between Saskatoon and Regina. That surprises a lot of people who assume by his appearance and his name that he's For this, Al-Katib turned to local knowledge: he went to visit his father. The senior Al-Katib had been practising medicine for 30 years at Davidson, half-way between Regina and Saskatoon, and he knew pretty much everyone in the area as a result. "I said, 'Dad, I need the names of 10 farmers I can trust,'" Murad recalls. Murad Al-Katib has come along way from his roots in Davidson, Sask. Today, he presides over Regina-based international agri-food powerhouse AGT Food and Ingredients Inc. Murad founded the company in 2001, building a Canadian start-up into a global multi- billion-dollar value-added pulses, staple foods, and ingredient company operating manufacturing and processing facilities on five continents |cqj| osx| hig| eup| smh| cld| qyl| sub| gdq| xgl| jui| tft| dyr| vzn| qzp| tyu| hpu| gna| qgh| qld| qht| ovh| ven| squ| dlg| cuf| zjh| iwe| oqn| sby| kra| opw| xwr| rpa| oxo| eow| nxl| qhb| nkl| qgo| duo| one| afh| ove| qun| mjy| syk| ogo| ijo| jst|