Name : Faiza Bawumi Sayed Ahmad.

Origin: Cairo, Egypt

Date of Birth: March 9, 1942

Siblings: The eldest of 7 siblings

Husband: Abu Bakr Ahmad

Children: 7 children

Work experience: Has worked as a cashier at his father's store

Education: Get formal education through high school

Faiza Bawumi Sayed Ahmad is the owner of the rice wholesaler States Faiza Sdn.
Bhd. In 1964, the Egyptian-born woman has been coming to Malaysia because .
according to her husband. At the time, she was able to master Malays langguage and
fluent in malay langguage after only three months in Malaysia because of his friendly
and sociable with her neighbors. Although the old neighborhood in the 60s, Faiza who
has seven children and a grandmother to 32 grandchildren still busy working on a
strategy to strengthen its position in the various branches of business in this country.

The Rural women was actually a gentle firmness. She wanted to ensure that
companies established should be on the right track once posted a profit every year.
Mrs. Faiza which indeed born in the family who is also active in the business.

She don’t ever think that her experience as a cashier in her father's shop a long
time ago, have been pushed her to involve seriously in entrepreneurship field.
According to Faiza, success is not easily obtained, but all of her efforts were fruitful
after she had been through a lot of challenging for 43 years in the business world.

After migrating to Malaysia with her husband, Mrs. Faiza find useful activities
that can be done to avoid their free time alone. She started with sewing embroidery
with RM4 capital and sell various groceries items. She also buy fabrics and make
clothes dress for little kids of her neighbors. Then she produced a set of pillowcases.
Her product is beautiful and neat seams sold to friends. There, she engaged an
encyclopedia set, followed by business tableware. Through small scale business, she
has saved up money as capital to continue to the next business capital.

She is interested in the production of curry spices. She bought various spices such
as coriander, cumin, fenugreek, dried chillies, cloves and so on for mixing the
ingredients to produce the curry fish and meat under the brand of Bunga Raya.
Everything is done at home, from washing, drying and frying the spices. Then, he
sends it to the store for ingredients and distributed.

A few years later, Mrs. Faiza bought another grinding machine and opened a
grocery store with a capital of curry sell it. From there, she finds that the rice
wholesalers are mostly supplied by other races. She began to study in various types of
rice. Mrs. Faiza apply for a rice wholesalers license and sell various types of rice
including ponni rice, basmati rice, fragrant and ‘Siam’ rice after receiving positive
feedback on his investigative efforts go from one shop to another shop to get feedback
on whether they would buy if he sells his rice. Customers who subscribe to his
apicealso buy rice from them.

Her business received a quite fierce even though the competition is very high. In
the early 90s, the company has taken advantage of the sensitivity of society at that
time to the manufacturing method and content of food. Her company began to
introduce the kind of quality rice categories of Kartanaka, India. This rice is a type of
rice "Ponni". Through quality and healthy products suitable for patients such as
diabetics, FSB introduce rice "Ponni" to the rest of Malaysia.