Merooj

Merooj, Inc.

Type	Private
Industry	Apparel, accessories
Founded	1987
Founder	Dr. Majid Saedifar
Headquarters	Tehran, Iran Covina, California, United States
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Dr. Majid Saedifar (President and CEO)
Products	Athletic footwear and apparel, sport equipments and other athletic and recreational products
Number of employees	directly or indirectly nearly 300 (2014)
Website	merooj.com

Merooj, Inc. (Persian: مروژ‎‎) is an Iranian producer and brand of athletic shoes, clothing, and accessories. The company was established by Dr. Majid Saedifar who was an official physical therapist of Iran national football team. He evolved and grew the company from an Iran-based soccer balls distributor to global marketer of athletic footwear, apparel and equipment. The company has headquarters in both Tehran, Iran, and Covina, California. It has several factories in Iran and other countries like China, Vietnam, Thailand.

Merooj is known internationally as the official apparel supplier for the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour.

Majid Saedifar was born in 1955 in Andimeshk, a small city in the southwest of Iran. After finishing his school, he went to Tehran to start his university. Because of his interest to football, he joined some football clubs. When he finished his university, he had to do his military service and he went to Shahrbani (Pas Tehran) football club. After a perfect performance, he was invited to the Iran youth national football team. In this period, he was one the famous young football players in the country and most. After a few years, he decided to leave the country and went to the USA to follow his studying and career. At the beginning, he played football for local football clubs. That didn't satisfied his ambitions as a perfectionist. He started searching to choose an academic major to study. Because of his experience in football, he selected Physical Therapy as his discipline in university. After a while, he got his Master's degree and immediately he began his career as a physical Therapist in the USA. A couple of years later, he extended his business and established several physical therapy clinics in California. While working hard as a physical therapist, he was also studying as a PhD student and after a while he got his PhD.

In his whole life, He has always been thinking about his home country, Iran and specially his hometown Andimeshk. He wanted to pay tribute to his country. All those years, he was always waiting for a good opportunity to fulfil his wish. Finally, the right moment came up. It was in 2000 that the Iranian national football team was invited to a tournament in the USA for the first time after the revolution in 1978. And actually that was a turning point in Majid's professional life. Iran's coaches knew Majid very well from the past years, so they asked him to join the team and help them as the physical therapist. From that time on, Majid was the Iranian official physical therapist for several years. That was a proper moment for him to make a difference and have a major role in the development of Iran's football . In doing so, he used all of his experience and knowledge to introduce the physical therapy among the Iranian athletes and physical therapists.