The Journey and Vision of Samann Group

The story of SAMANN begins with a successful entrepreneur, Mr. Salih Hussain who capitalized his 25+ years of experience in trading, real estate and hospitality to launch a business that seamlessly integrates core industries of the Maldives.

Mr. Salih Hussain begins his SAMANN journey, following his success as a pioneer of the first high-end city hotels and Modern & Ultra Luxury Service Apartments in the Maldives. He ventured into the Service apartment business in the early 2000’s under the shade of MINAAN investments. Following the establishment of the first Luxury service apartments in the country, his visions sharpened towards an even bigger objective. With the joining hands of his entrepreneurial children, he continued to rapidly expand his real estate business and carry the operations to a stage where the business had a total of 75+ apartments consisting 1, 2, 3-bedroom apartments that were fully furnished and included all modern amenities.

After a successful and unique tackle of the real estate world, Mr. Hussain and his children diverted their focus to the mainstream industry of the nation, Hospitality. With maximum effort, and utmost perseverance, they built a high quality 4- star hotel in the reclaimed new city of Hulhumale, which was just a couple of minutes from the International Airport and interconnected with the Airport island itself. The hotel would soon be known as HOTEL OCEAN GRAND.

While the endeavor into both the real estate & hospitality industry were progressing rapidly, Mr. Hussain’s children, who were now leading the operation, felt the need to centralize the segments of the ongoing activities in order to streamline the whole operation. Hence, came the rebranding Minaan Investments.

Bringing the real estate & tourism arms under one umbrella as well as setting up of a central body that will assert and oversee further augmentation of their entrepreneurship well into the future both successfully and with sustainability was the main aspect of their decision. As a result, an entity that was tasked to
cohere and coordinate all business activities of Mr. Hussain’s entrepreneurship under a unified roof was created. Thus, came the birth of SAMANN in the year 2015.

Today, SAMANN sets its footprints in the industry of Hospitality, Real Estate and Trading operating multiple wings.