Most of Minangkabau businessmen success in hospitality, media, healthcare, and textile trader.
His father R.S. Maniam was a rice merchant, textile trader and a well known politician in coimbatore.
His father was a textile trader and embroiderer; his mother was French.
It was founded by textile traders and merchants.
His grandfather was a textile trader and owned a small textile store.
After completing his education he moved back to his home town of Kadiri and became a textile trader.
It was in India that his career as an entrepreneur began, as a textile trader.
A mixture of textile traders, small manufacturers and retailers, in 1870 they opened the first Armenian church in Britain.
He was by occupation a textile trader, the senior partner in the London branch of the firm of Charles Lavy & Co.
Latief's father was a textile trader and his mother was an activist in Aisyiyah (a part of the Muhammadiyah Islamic organization).