Said Khoury
| Said Khoury | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 6, 1923 Safad, Mandatory Palestine |
| Died | October 15, 2014 (aged 91) Athens, Greece |
| Residence | Athens, Greece |
| Citizenship | Lebanon |
| Occupation | Co-founder, owner and Chairman of Consolidated Contractors Company |
| Years active | 1941–2014 |
| Website | www.ccc.gr |
Said Tawfiq Khoury (Arabic: سعيد الخوري) (born in 1923) was a prominent Lebanese/Palestinian Christian entrepreneur and philanthropist. He was one of the three founders of Consolidated Contractors Company, currently based in Athens. Khoury set up the business with his cousin Hasib Sabbagh in Beirut in 1952.
CCC is the largest construction company in the Middle East and ranks among the top 25 international contractors with a revenue of 5.3 billion USD in 2013. CCC has offices and projects in over 40 countries, and a workforce of more than 130,000 employees. Khoury who is listed as a billionaire by Forbes is ranked 10th on the Arabian Business world's richest Arabs in 2013. Over the past few years, Khoury dedicated most of his time to the organisation he founded, The Bethlehem Development Foundation that aims to rejuvenate the birthplace of Jesus Christ Bethlehem in Palestine, a holy city for Muslims and Christians alike.
Khoury was born in Safed, Palestine in 1923. He was nourished in an atmosphere of strong family ties, pervasive moral influence, and a deep sense of ethnic and cultural diversity. After attending St. Luke's School in Haifa, he followed his cousin Hasib Sabbagh to Lebanon inorder to study in the American University of Beirut, where both of them graduated from the faculty of engineering. Upon returning home, each of them founded a small construction company in Palestine.
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