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).