Home Centre
Founders
Micky Jagtiani, Renuka Jagtiani · Founded 1995 · HQ today: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Home Centre was founded by Micky Jagtiani, Renuka Jagtiani in 1995. It is now led by Arja Taaveniku.
Home Centre was founded in 1995 in Sharjah, UAE, by Renuka Jagtiani. As a key executive within the Landmark Group (founded by her husband Micky Jagtiani), she noticed a massive void in the Middle Eastern market. While the region had high-end luxury furniture boutiques and incredibly cheap, unbranded local markets, there was absolutely no middle-ground offering stylish, affordable, and quality home furnishings in a modern retail environment. She launched Home Centre to directly fill this gap, effectively creating the 'IKEA alternative' for the Arab world.
Founder of Landmark Group, Home Centre's parent company.
Mukesh 'Micky' Jagtiani founded Landmark Group with a single store in Bahrain in 1973 and built it into one of the Middle East's largest retail groups. Home Centre was launched under the group in 1995. He died in 2023. Micky Jagtiani was born in 1952.
Chairwoman of the Landmark Group.
Renuka Jagtiani founded Home Centre in 1995 as a strategic expansion of her husband Micky Jagtiani's retail empire (the Landmark Group). Recognizing a massive gap in the Middle Eastern market for stylish but affordable home furnishings (before IKEA dominated the region), she personally conceptualized and launched the brand in Sharjah, UAE, building it into the region's absolute largest home retailer. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
Jayanti Ganguly
Chief Executive Officer, Home Centre India
Previously led the fashion portfolio at Myntra and the fashion and home portfolio at Flipkart Wholesale; earlier at Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail.
Sitaram Kumar
Former CEO, Home Centre India
As a senior executive managing the Indian operations, he successfully localized the product assortment to match Indian consumer tastes while maintaining the brand's international premium feel.
Sameer Jain
Former CEO, Home Centre; CEO of New Businesses, Landmark Group
As CEO, he steered the company through the post-pandemic retail shift, significantly expanding the 'click-and-collect' infrastructure across Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Renuka Jagtiani
Chairwoman, Landmark Group
As the Founder and driving force behind the brand, she maintains absolute strategic control over its direction within the massive, multi-billion dollar Landmark Group portfolio.
Arja Taaveniku
Chief Executive Officer, Home Centre
Former independent non-executive director of UK homewares retailer Dunelm (stepped down end-2024).
Landmark Group launched Home Centre in 1995 in Sharjah, UAE. Micky Jagtiani founded the group in Bahrain in 1973.
Micky Jagtiani founded Landmark Group with a single store in Bahrain and grew it into a major Middle East retailer. He died in 2023.
Renuka Jagtiani is Chairwoman of Landmark Group, Home Centre's parent.
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