We keep client work private.
Most of our clients are private companies and family businesses. We do not display their names or list the work we have done for them, and we keep the people behind Kaelo off the website for the same reason.
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About us
Kaelo Global started as a family textile trade in 1989. Today we work in digital marketing, management consultancy, the textile trade and our own clothing brand, wearon.co, from one office in Dubai. This page explains how we got here and how we try to work. We keep individual names off the site, for our team and for our clients alike.
Who we are
We would rather do fewer things well and keep the trust of the people we work with.
The business began in 1989 as a textile trade, sourcing fabric and garments from mills in Asia for buyers in the Gulf and beyond. Those years taught us to stand behind what we sell and to be careful about what we promise, and we still try to work that way.
Over time the business grew into a Dubai company with four activities: digital marketing, management consultancy, the textile trade where it began, and our own brand, wearon.co. Each activity is led by people with hands-on experience of the work, and all four share one office and one leadership team.
We are a privately held company licensed in Meydan Free Zone, and we are small by choice. We do not publish client names, because most of our clients are private businesses and family firms that prefer it that way, and we think that preference deserves respect.
Our history
The business starts in the apparel trade, sourcing from a single mill relationship in Asia for a small and private list of buyers.
We build relationships with mills in India, Indonesia, Japan and Malaysia, and the work widens from coordinating production to finishing and fabric sourcing. Some of the buyers we met in those years still work with us today.
The family begins advising other family-run businesses on questions it had already faced in its own trade, and tries its first ventures in selling directly to customers.
The operating businesses come together under one name for the first time. Each activity keeps responsibility for its own results, and all of them share the same standards of work.
The business consolidates under the Kaelo Global name, with four activities and one office in Dubai. The earlier names used while the business was being built are retired.
A multi-ethnic team runs a textile import and export trade for the UAE and our own consumer brand, and provides marketing and consultancy to clients across the UAE and the wider Gulf, from an office licensed in Meydan Free Zone.
How we try to work
Most of our clients are private companies and family businesses. We do not display their names or list the work we have done for them, and we keep the people behind Kaelo off the website for the same reason.
Our consultancy grew out of problems we met in our own businesses first. We try to advise only on the kinds of business we understand, and we say so when a question falls outside that.
The textile trade has been running since 1989, and some of our supplier relationships go back decades. We would rather build working relationships that last than chase quick results.
We turn down work we cannot do well, and we try never to promise more than we can deliver. If a budget or a timeline is not realistic, we will tell you before you commit to anything.
How the company is run
Kaelo Global is led by a small group of senior principals drawn from across the four activities. We keep the names of the founding family private, in the same way that we keep our clients' names private.
What we can share is how decisions are made. When the interests of two activities might conflict, the question is raised with the principals in writing. Any commitment that ties the whole company to something beyond a single piece of work needs more than one principal to approve it, so that no important decision rests on one person alone.
How decisions are checked
The principals of the four activities meet regularly to agree priorities and to resolve any conflict of interest, including on work that crosses from one activity to another.
A long supply contract, a new line of work or any other commitment that binds the whole company needs more than one principal to agree to it, and the decision is recorded.
We keep our licence and registrations up to date and review our internal controls regularly, including in areas where we are not formally regulated.
We set limits on how much work we take on in any one sector or with any one client, and we revisit those limits openly when they no longer fit the business.
The people we work with
Mills and finishing houses in India, Indonesia, Japan and Malaysia. Several of these relationships have lasted through many market cycles.
A small group of long-standing buyers we trade with on terms that have held up through difficult seasons.
International law firms for regulated matters, and smaller specialist firms for narrower questions.
A small number of long-standing banking relationships, which we prefer to a wide network of short-term ones.
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Kaelo Global is a Dubai company licensed in Meydan Free Zone, with over 100 clients served so far.