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BILLIONAIRES: Meet BIDCO’s Vimal Shah, the richest East African who still dreams big

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Shah is thoughtful, charismatic and at ease with himself. He and his brother, both of whose families live in the same compound, do not compete, he says.

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… When Vimal Shah and his older brother took their ambitious idea for man­u­facturing consumer goods to potential backers in 1985, they could not get a loan. “Unilever will kill you,” one banker told them. Since then Unilever has sold several brands to them; and…

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