CEO and Director of Dandy Mart retail store, Khan Hazara, arrived in Australia in 2009 and was granted permanent residency in 2010.
He entered business by opening the second branch of an already established retail business by one of his relatives and by 2015 he opened a third branch.
Apart from the stores, Mr Hazara also imports goods from overseas, supplying them to migrant stores around Australia.
In 2015 he was awarded the Best Refugees Business Award, by the (RASRA), and since then his business has been nominated for and won several small business awards, including winning one of the Entrepreneurs Awards at the in 2018.
Khan Hazara accepted the Bizz Award at the Intercontinental Hong Kong Hotel, November 14, 2018 Source: Supplied
Now, his business has been shortlisted for the 2019 Australian Small Business Champion Award from about 2000 nominees.
Mr Hazara describes his business experience as “extraordinary but not easy”.
The 27-year-old says his “interest, passion and diligence” for business, and strong business plan has been a major factor.
Khan Hazara’s business has been shortlisted for the Australian Small Business Champion Award Source: Supplied
“We should know what are our goals and where we want our business to be in the next five or ten years”, he says.
Mr Hazara, who studied a diploma of Business Management, says he researches and reads about successful businesses and their success stories in his free time.
“If I say I haven’t tried hard, that is a lie, but at the same time I don’t want to say I have worked hard, because if say the word hard, that’s when the hard work and effort end”.
His advice for young people who want to start their own business is to research and plan carefully about the work that they want to do.
“Blindly entering the business in a country like Australia will not be successful”.
Those who want to establish new businesses, he says, should be passionate about their work and have a demographic understanding of their customers.
