Abu Hashima, the change maker: An Egyptian billionaire’s journey from scratch to the top

The famous Egyptian businessman Ahmed Abu Hashima is one of the most important and famous businessmen in Egypt and the Arab world. This is due to his ability to work on himself with strength and patience until he reached the current position and status he has reached among other well-known businessmen around the world. The story of his struggle and life has spread among everyone, and about his upbringing, how his professional life began, and how he was able to reach that wealth and become in that position. We review information about all of that in this article.

Who is Abu Hashima? Many newspapers and reliable sources have mentioned various and different information about the famous Egyptian businessman Ahmed, regarding the beginning of his life and other things. Here is some information about the beginning, which is:

His full name is Ahmed Hamdi Abu Hashima Abdel Aziz.

The famous Egyptian businessman was born on the eleventh of January 1975. He was born in the Waili district of Cairo, but his origins go back to Beni Suef Governorate. He moved with his family to Cairo and studied there. He studied and graduated from Suez Canal University, Faculty of Commerce in 1996. During his studies, he worked as a trainee at the Arab International Bank and continued working there for four years of his studies. After graduating, the Egyptian businessman decided to start the iron trade, and from there he was able to establish his first company to work in and trade in building materials, which became one of the leading companies in reinforcing iron and its trade. He was married for four years to the artist Haifa Wehbe, then they separated. He married again in March 2020 to the artist Yasmine Sabry, but he announced his separation from her in May 2022. How did Abu Hashima become rich? After the famous Egyptian businessman Ahmed Abu Hashima completed his studies at the Faculty of Commerce and worked in the bank as a trainee for four years during his university period, he then moved to trade in iron and steel.

After that, he started working as a distributor of iron only. His work began with an iron merchant in Imbaba, and he tried to sell iron for one thousand three hundred pounds, although the selling price at that time was one hundred pounds less. However, the merchant refused and asked him to buy it at a price of 1200 pounds for ten pounds. The famous businessman agreed to that, and the small loss was the beginning of his work, as his loss per ton was ten pounds.

Ahmed continued to suffer from this loss for a period of no less than a year, and his first goal was to spread it among the merchants, and for them to know him well and to work with them continuously despite his loss. Indeed, he gained the popularity he sought among the merchants.

After his success in achieving spread and popularity, he began to work hard until he was able in 2002 to buy ten percent of one of the iron and steel factories in which he worked. Three more years passed and he was able to buy a percentage in another factory, but at a higher percentage, which was thirty percent. He continued to do so with continuous progress in success in work and buying more iron factories.

In 2009, he was able to move from the rank of iron distributor to the owner of an iron factory, which he established and named Egyptian Iron.

From Waili to Global: The Journey of an Egyptian Businessman The famous Egyptian businessman Ahmed Abu Hashima, whose beginnings were simple in the Waili neighborhood where he was born and part of his upbringing was, then he moved to Cairo and began his educational journey, then to a journey of struggle, then success, and from there to the world.

His father played an important role in shaping his personality, due to his work as a policeman. He was able to bear responsibility and the ability to plan for the future and think properly about work. This is what made him start in the right way. He chose to trade in iron, based on advice given to him by a friend of his father. Now he was able to work on it and reach success and internationality.

The famous businessman has also achieved many accomplishments, including the following: His first and most important achievement was the establishment of the Egyptian Iron Factory in 2010, which was the beginning through which he was able to complete his career in the iron and steel trade. The famous Egyptian businessman was able to prove his personality more strongly when he sought to adopt the idea of a safe production policy and high quality that conforms to specifications and is compatible with international standards. Its continuous work to provide many different products, but they are environmentally friendly, in an effort to maintain a clean environment and protect its resources. He was able to establish a company called Egyptian Cement, which specializes in building materials. He also helped in trying to rehabilitate and restore many poor Egyptian villages. Ahmed Hamdi was the first to donate to support the Egyptian economy and try to revive it. Abu Hashima between work and fame: a controversial figure In an interview with the famous Egyptian businessman on one of the Emirati channels, which revealed many other different aspects of his personality, whether professional or personal, he always advised young people to insist on success by always saying that failure is part of success. He was not afraid of failure, but he constantly tried to learn from it.

And what he may have done wrong so that the result would be better later and he could succeed, and he also gives important advice which is that in order to be able to achieve this success he should have believed in his idea, then done the necessary study for it which would facilitate the implementation of the idea and also an integrated team to work with and have confidence in himself and his work in order to be able to succeed.

He also pointed out that it is now easier for young people to search and study through the Internet and also obtain financing through many available methods, which was not available to them before. It is possible to easily achieve success and obtain wealth in a more easy way only through study, faith and work.

Ahmed Abu Hashima's life The famous Egyptian businessman married for the first time to one of his colleagues whom he met while studying at university, and he had two children from her who are now in their twenties. The eldest son is called Rabie and the second is Youssef, but the marriage did not last and he and the mother of his children separated.

Then for the second time he married the Lebanese artist Haifa Wehbe in 2009 and the marriage lasted for years and they had no children and separated in 2012. This was followed by his marriage to the Egyptian artist Yasmine Sabry, but the marriage did not last long and they separated when the Egyptian businessman announced that.

Abu Hashima's wealth It was not easy for the famous businessman Ahmed Abu Hashima to reach this priceless and unknown wealth at that time, but he believed in some things that would enable him to do so, which are:

Belief in the idea he is working on. Trust in the planning you have put in place to achieve success. Failure does not mean falling, but it is the beginning of success. An integrated team is one of the most important steps to success. Many social media users and business owners have reported that Ahmed Abu's wealth is approximately $5.4 billion, distributed among many possessions.

In the end, the life of the famous Egyptian businessman Abu Hashima is a unique story of struggle. When you hear it, you can gain a great deal of enthusiasm to work and strive in order to achieve success and wealth. You can also be sure that failure does not mean the inability to reach the top, but it is the beginning of the ascent.