Jamil cheaib biography

When the third-largest Canadian food retailer seeks to acquire a Lebanese supermarket in a Canadian province, and is willing to pay millions of dollars for it, it tells you only one thing: That Lebanese supermarket is the best and most successful in the province, and not just as an ethnic supermarket. That is how Marché Adonis in Montreal, Canada, stands out to-date, mighty at the top-level it has reached, serving all Canadians and emigrants across Quebec and all the way to the province of Ontario.

However, Marché Adonis was not always so mighty. It started as a very small 93 m2 food store at a corner of a street in Montreal. That was in 1979, three years after Lebanese brothers Elie and Jamil Cheaib arrived in Montreal from Lebanon with their friend Georges Ghrayeb.

Sons of the Lebanese coastal town of Damour, the Cheaib brothers and their friend George Ghrayeb lived their first years in Montreal in a very small apartment, barely furnished with three mattresses, a table, and a fr

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Jamil and Elie Cheaib are Lebanese-Canadian entrepreneurs based in Montreal.

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Jamil Cheaib works as a President at Groupe DAMCO, which is a Real Estate company with an estimated 19 employees; and founded in 1947.

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From abject poverty in war-torn Lebanon to a prospering business in North America, Jameel Cheaib struggled against all odds till he managed to become the wealthiest Arab in Canada.

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Jamil and Elie Cheaib are Lebanese-Canadian entrepreneurs based in Montreal.