Tahir Mohsan
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Tahir Mohsan is the founder of the TIME brand and currently manages several investment companies from his base in Dubai.
TIME Computers was set up by Tahir Mohsan and his half-brother, Dr Tariq Mohammed, in 1987 with an investment of just £1,000. At that time Mohsan was aged just 16. This later diversified into many businesses. At the age of 33 he moved to Dubai in 2002[citation needed], to set up Time Group Middle East after selling the UK hardware sales operations (Granville Technology Group) to the management team led by Group MD Brian Lynn.
Following its takeover of rival Tiny in 2002, the £207m-turnover UK operation (owned by Granville Technology) had a national chain of over 300 retail stores that traded under the Computer Shop brand. However, the Granville technology group faced difficulties in 2005 and went into administration in July 2005. Subsequent to its Administration, Granville lost the TIME licence for the UK which was acquired by Time UK.
Time Group continues in the UK, Middle East and the Far East, supplying computers, notebooks, plasma screens and TFT screens around the world.
Mohsan also owns the UK's 5th largest Internet service provider, Supanet, and his investment companies have interests in the IT and property industry across Europe, the Middle East and Asia. These range from hardware manufacturing and sales to Internet services, software development and Voice over IP technology.
He has just acquired the Evesham Technology Group, currently the UK's largest PC and flat-screen manufacturer, but has come under criticism for firing most of the staff.
