اليكم الان Marseille Rewrites the History of Hail Saeed Anam والان إلى التفاصيل من المصدر موقع يمنات الأخباري
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Yemenat
Mohammed Al-Mekhlafi
A few days ago, I wrote an article titled (Stories from Inside the Hail Saeed Anam Group), after hearing a story by chance from a friend about the group’s relationship with its employees, and how it encourages them and helps them develop their abilities.
This story prompted me to write the previous article and led me to read and research the history of the group from its very beginning, how it expanded, and how it became the largest commercial and industrial group in Yemen and one of the largest companies in the region.
To understand how this journey began, I had to go back to the group’s first founder, Al Haj Hail Saeed Anam, may God have mercy on him.
He was born in 1902 in the village of Qaradh, one of the villages in the Hifan Mountains south of Taiz. He spent his childhood like many others of his generation. He tended sheep, worked in agriculture, and memorized the Quran at the village’s traditional Quran school.
He was calm by nature and intelligent, close to his family, and ambitious, always looking toward the future, especially after his elder brother, Abdo Saeed, and some young men from the area had gone to France to work there.
At the age of eighteen, he decided to leave. He said goodbye to his family and village and set out on foot toward Aden. He had nothing with him but his parents’ prayers and his desire to travel and work abroad.
When he reached the port of Aden, he boarded one of the ships, but he did not have enough money for a ticket. He offered to work for the crew in return for being taken to Marseille, France. They agreed and assigned him to feed the ship’s furnaces with coal, which was used as fuel to power its engines.
When he arrived in Marseille, he worked in one of its factories, then moved on to working as a sailor, traveling between Marseille, Somalia, Port Said, and Djibouti. During those years, he learned a great deal and gained experience in both work and life.
In 1938, he returned to Aden and opened a small shop in Al-Mualla district in partnership with his nephew, Ali Mohammed Saeed. He began doing business with the French merchant A. BESS, whose office was in Crater, the commercial center of Aden at the time. After learning about his honesty and integrity, the merchant gave him a large quantity of goods to sell.
Al Haj Hail and his nephew transported the goods in a lorry and four camel-drawn carts to their shop in Al-Mualla, about four and a half kilometers from Crater. After selling all the goods, he returned to the merchant and handed him the full amount, including the profit.
The merchant was surprised and said, “This profit is yours!” His trust in him grew, and he appointed him as his agent. From there, his business began to expand.
After the revolution in the south against British colonial rule and the political and economic changes that followed, a number of private companies and businesses were nationalized, and many merchants lost their businesses. Al Haj Hail was among them.
In those circumstances, he could have asked to be released from the debts he owed to foreign companies, but he chose to pay them. He had already moved part of his business to Taiz, which enabled him to settle his debts within a few months.
This increased those companies’ trust in him and led them to appoint him as their agent. His business then began to expand even further.
One day in Taiz, he saw a group of students protesting because the food assistance they had been receiving had stopped. He asked them why they were protesting, and when he learned what had happened, he said, “If this is their situation while they are still students, what will their situation be after they graduate?”
From this incident came the idea of establishing the Yemeni Company for Industry and Trade, in an attempt to create job opportunities for young people after they completed their studies.
As the group’s businesses grew, Ali Mohammed Saeed and Ahmed Hail took on greater responsibilities in its management. From the 1970s onward, they played a role in leading the group’s businesses alongside other members of the family, continuing to develop the group and expand its activities.
As for Al Haj Hail, he devoted himself at that point to charitable work, focusing his attention on helping people and supporting families in need.
Among the stories told about his charitable work is one that took place while he was on his way to Sana’a. At Maghrib, he stopped and got out of his Hilux with his driver beside a small mosque on the road in Yareem, near the city of Dhamar, and went inside to pray.
It was his habit to pray Maghrib and then remain in the mosque reciting the Quran until Isha. After the prayer ended, the worshippers left, while Al Haj Hail remained in the mosque to perform the Sunnah and Witr prayers. When he finished praying, the imam approached him and told him that he wanted to close the mosque.
Al Haj Hail stood up. He was wearing a traditional futah, a shirt, and a white ghutra on his head. He looked simple, almost like any ordinary man. He then asked the imam, “Who is the person in charge of the village?”
The imam replied, “Why do you want to see him?”
Al Haj Hail answered, “I want to build a mosque.”
The imam asked in surprise, “Who are you?”
He replied, “Hail Saeed Anam.”
The imam then welcomed him and thanked him for the initiative. But Al Haj Hail did not stop there. He also asked the imam to tell him which orphans in the village were in need of support so that he could provide for them.
The imam wrote down their names, and Al Haj Hail assigned each of them a monthly allowance, which they continued to receive until they grew up.
About two weeks later, the equipment and engineers arrived, and work began on building the mosque on an area measuring 15 by 15 meters, including the bathrooms.
This was how Al Haj Hail Saeed continued along the same path until his death in 1990.
Today, the group’s activities are no longer limited to Yemen. They have expanded into a number of countries in the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Europe, and Southeast Asia, through dozens of companies operating in different fields.
But this long journey has also gone through difficult circumstances. For years, Yemen has been living through extremely difficult conditions that have affected almost every aspect of life, and the group’s companies and factories have not been isolated from these circumstances.
Despite this, the group continued to operate and did not stop, and remained committed to keeping up with every new development.
As part of its efforts to develop its businesses and keep pace with changes in the global market, investing in people and developing their abilities has become an important part of this approach.
The group therefore launched the Entelaqa and SAP programs for young professionals, giving them opportunities to learn, gain practical experience, and become familiar with modern technologies.
The group also announced, in partnership with Microsoft, a new phase in the use of artificial intelligence in its businesses as part of its strategic transformation. The idea is for artificial intelligence to become a tool available to employees themselves, helping them understand the problems they face in their daily work and turn their ideas into solutions.
The group also honors its employees from time to time. Not long ago, it recognized those who had spent 25 years or more working with the group.
I believe such recognition reflects something important about the group’s relationship with its employees. Over all those years, these employees have accumulated a great deal of knowledge, experience, and valuable lessons.
There is another aspect that is no less important than the ones mentioned above: the values, integrity, and principles established by Al Haj Hail Saeed Anam, may Allah have mercy on him, from the beginning. This commitment can still be seen today in the Compliance Ambassadors initiative, through which the group won the Initiative of the Year in Culture and Ethics award at the 2026 MENA Compliance Awards.
Here, I remember an incident from the early days, when Al Haj Hail Saeed Anam returned the full amount, including the profit, to the French merchant A. BESS. What Al Haj Hail did that day was a personal act, but it reflected a value that remained present over the years and eventually became part of the group’s culture.
By the way, I based this article on reading some articles published on the Hail Saeed Anam Group & Companies website and other news websites, as well as watching some of the videos I found on YouTube. Through these sources, I tried to write about some aspects of the history and experience of this remarkable group. It is an experience too vast to be summed up in a single article; it would take volumes to document it properly.
At the end of this article, let us return to Marseille, the city from which Al Haj Hail Saeed Anam’s journey began decades ago. The young man who left his village in the Hifan Mountains, reached Aden, and then crossed the sea to Marseille in search of work could not have known that this city would one day return to his story.
Many years later, the group returned to Marseille through the international Aden–Marseille exhibition, recently held at the La Vie Chartée center in the French city of Marseille, under the supervision of researchers from the Louvre Museum.
The exhibition documented the founding journey of the group and the work of its founders, Hail Saeed and his brothers, beginning in 1938, as well as the commercial relationship that once connected Aden and Marseille.
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