International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies ISSN 2028-9324 Vol. 12 No. 3 Aug. 2015, pp. 685-690 © 2015 Innovative Space of Scientific Research Journals http://www.ijias.issr-journals.org/ Corresponding Author: Mushtaq A. Sajid 685 A SUCCESSFUL FAMILY BUSINESS IN UK: CASE STUDY OF SEVEN DAYS STORE Mushtaq A. Sajid, Javed H. Rehman, Adnan Hanif, Farzana Sajid, and Ambreen Sajid UMSIT Kotli, Pakistan Copyright © 2015 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ABSTRACT: This research study is an investigation of the successful small business entrepreneurs who are engaged in family owned business in England. The selected case study of seven days retail store at Luton UK who started the small family business during 2002 with very small investment and now its one of successful family businesses of Asian community in England. The seven days store offers a range of services while catering to the needs of the local Asian Muslim community. The store offers a range of ethnic groceries, Asian food, meat, fruits, vegetables, PCO services, and other convenience items at very competitive prices to its local customers and gain a good business progress and growth within a short timeframe. The study is investigated and analyzed by the principal author during his process of writing his book on Asian SME Management in UK. The data was collected by arranging questionnaires, personal structure interviews, field observations and group discussions with the family business owners and customers and analysis is done by coauthors. This case study is a true success story of an effective entrepreneur in SME Management. KEYWORDS: BIS, SME Management, Family business, Entrepreneurial Development in UK and Asian Success Stories. INTRODUCTION Asians are generally in retail business to serve their respective communities in the UK. This Seven Days business is chosen because it deals with Asian foods and is centrally located in a highly populated Asian and Muslim community at Dallow Road Luton. The company/business started in December 2002 and since then it has offered a range of services and catering to the needs of the local community. The store offers a range of ethnic groceries, halal meat, fruits, vegetables, PCO services, and other convenience items at very competitive prices run by successful businessman Mr. Liaqat Ali S/O Mr. Abuzer Khan. Indeed, Seven Days Store is in its early stage of growth, I decided it would be interesting to investigate the small grocery business, run by an educated family. How business product lines and IT services are continuously introduced with the passage of time and to see what techniques are used to take the company from an ‘introductory’ stage to the ‘growth stage’ by the British Pakistani business own manager, Mr. Liaqut Ali and Family i.e. Mr. Asif Ali, a cousin of Mr. Ali, Mr. Yasar Ali, the elder son, Mr. Nasar Ali, the younger son of Mr. Liaqut Ali. Both of Mr. Ali’s sons are university graduated (one in business and other in IT) and helping their family to run the business with its concepts and practices, they also helped to conduct a local survey for this research to present buying trends of the customers. They were borne and brought up here and quite different than other traditional business own managers in this region. The oldest Kashmir store established in mid 1960s and another Haji and Sons grocery store at Bury Park but both of them were not part of the research studies. FAMILY BUSINESS PROFILE Mr. Abuzer Khan, father of Mr. Liaqut Ali was an army person and did not face any problems to work and stay with the British working environment. Mr. Khan migrated to Britain during early 1960s he got a gentle family a son Mr. Liaqut Ali and a daughter (Now Mrs. Asif). Mr. Khan shifted his wife and kids in early 1970s to educate his children in UK. Both of them got school education and got arranged marriages from Gujarkhan, Pakistan and decided to settle back in the UK. Mr. Liaqut Ali worked in the Vauxhall factory for some years and he was not a service minded person and left the factory. Initially he