{{short description|English businessman}} {{Undisclosed paid|date=June 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Adam Kamani | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{b-da|5 June 1989}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | education = | occupation = Businessman | known_for = Co-founder of PrettyLittleThing<br> CEO of Kamani Property Group | parents = Mahmud Kamani | relatives = Umar Kamani (brother) }}
'''Adam Kamani''' (born June 1989)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Adam Mahmud KAMANI personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK|url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/TQTSFeC5vmBdE2vOfsT4Qqv4pKY/appointments|access-date=2021-11-24|website=find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk|language=en}}</ref> is an English businessman. He is the chief executive officer of Kamani Property Group and KM Capital, and a co-founder of PrettyLittleThing.<ref>{{cite news | last =Hill | first =Megan | title =Meet the Boohoo billionaires who turned a market stall into a $4.4 billion fashion empire | publisher =news.com.au| date =10 July 2017 | url =https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/meet-the-boohoo-billionaires-who-turned-a-market-stall-into-a-44-billion-fashion-empire/news-story/3c2b09be2deedcf0c62bea8402f52da5 | access-date =25 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last =Partington | first =Samantha | title =Kamani fashions new Manchester resi trend | publisher =propertyweek.com| date =24 May 2018 | url =https://www.propertyweek.com/resi/kamani-fashions-new-manchester-resi-trend/5096746.article | access-date =25 January 2019}}</ref>
Kamani grew up in Chorlton.<ref name=":0">{{cite news|last=Roue|first=Lucy|title=The rags to riches story of Manchester's billionaire Boohoo family|publisher=manchestereveningnews.co.uk|url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/business/business-news/boohoo-adam-kamani-profile-manchester-14617736|access-date=25 January 2019}}</ref> His grandfather, Abdullah Kamani, emigrated from Kenya to the United Kingdom in the 1960s with his wife and four children.<ref>{{cite news | last =Wyat | first =Lucy RoueTim | title =Immigrants from Kenya to billionaire businessmen in two generations: the Manchester family behind Boohoo empire open up | publisher =mirror.co.uk| date =6 May 2018 | url =https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/immigrants-kenya-billionaire-businessmen-two-12489699| access-date =25 January 2019}}</ref> Kamani was educated at Cheadle Hulme School and Wilmslow High School.<ref name=":0" /> He later enrolled at Sheffield Hallam University to study international hospitality business but left the programme after moving abroad.<ref name=":0" /> In 2012, Kamani co-founded the fashion company ''Pretty Little Thing'' with his brother Umar Kamani, which focused on fashion accessories.<ref>{{cite news | last =Wood | first =Zoe | title =Boohoo spends £3.3m on cofounder's sons' company| publisher =theguardian.com| date =14 December 2016 | url =https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/dec/14/boohoo-spends-33m-on-cofounders-sons-company| access-date =25 January 2019}}</ref> In 2017, Boohoo group acquired a majority stake in the company.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite news | title =Boohoo determined not to be another fashion sob story| publisher =theguardian.com| url =https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jun/22/boohoo-not-fashion-sob-story | access-date =25 January 2019}}</ref>
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