What is Avanti Holding?

Avanti Holding is an Emirati international group founded in Fujairah in 1952 and headquartered in Dubai. It owns and operates nine divisions that are built to reinforce one another rather than to sit in a portfolio.

What does Avanti Holding do?

The group develops master-planned communities; produces food and operates restaurants, cafés and Sir Fluffy autonomous smart retail; runs hospitality assets; builds artificial-intelligence platforms through Avanti AI Labs; manufactures PPVC volumetric modules and structural steel; engineers defence and situational-awareness systems; and deploys permanent capital through Avanti Investment, alongside research and sustainability functions.

Where does Avanti Holding operate?

Avanti Holding is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and operates across the UAE and the wider Gulf, the United Kingdom and international markets. Its food supply chain sources from India and Sri Lanka.

How are Avanti Holding's brands related to the group?

Every brand sits inside a division. Sir Fluffy, Sir Fluffy Café, Jannah Restaurants, The Big Fish and Paramount Miami all operate within Avanti Food & Beverage, which in turn sits under the group's hospitality and food activities. Avanti Holding is the parent organisation of all nine divisions.

How is Avanti Holding governed?

Governance is set out publicly on the corporate governance page: Board reserved matters, an Audit & Risk Committee, an Investment Committee, a Remuneration & Nomination Committee, delegated authority levels and a three-lines-of-defence risk model.

How do I contact Avanti Holding?

Enquiries are routed by department from the contact page, or by email to hello@avantiholding.co.uk. Investor, media, careers and partnership enquiries each have a dedicated inbox on the avantiholding.co.uk domain.

Corporate profile

Avanti Holding company profile

A single factual reference for the group: who we are, what each division does, which brands sit where, and where we operate.

Group summary

Avanti Holding is an Emirati international group founded in Fujairah in 1952 and headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The group owns and operates nine divisions across property development, food and beverage, hospitality, artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, defence systems, investment, research and sustainability.

The operating model is integration rather than diversification: master-planned communities create demand for the group's food, hospitality and manufacturing businesses, and Avanti AI Labs supplies the technology layer that runs underneath all of them. Avanti Holding is the parent organisation of every division and brand listed on this page.

Legal / trading name: Avanti Holding LTD
Founded: 1952, Fujairah, United Arab Emirates
Headquarters: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Markets served: United Arab Emirates, wider Gulf, United Kingdom, international
Divisions: 9 operating divisions
Official website: https://avantiholding.co.uk

Corporate structure

The nine divisions

Each division is a wholly directed part of Avanti Holding, with its own capabilities page.

Avanti Holding divisions, what each one does, and a link to its page
Division	What it does	Page
Avanti Property Development	Master-planned communities that become the centre of everything we build.	Property Development division
Avanti Food & Beverage	From farm-grade production to destination dining and Sir Fluffy autonomous smart retail, engineered end to end.	Food & Beverage division
Avanti Hospitality	Places people travel for, run with the precision of an industrial group.	Hospitality division
Avanti AI Labs	The intelligence layer running underneath every company in the group.	AI Labs division
Avanti Advanced Manufacturing	PPVC volumetric construction and structural steel, produced in-house.	Advanced Manufacturing division
Avanti Defence Systems	Protective engineering and situational awareness for critical environments.	Defence Systems division
Avanti Investment	Permanent capital, deployed with patience and operating conviction.	Investment division
Avanti Research	Innovation labs working two product cycles ahead of the group.	Research division
Avanti Sustainability	Designed in at master-plan stage, measured for the life of the asset.	Sustainability division

Brands

Brands and where they sit

Every consumer brand operates inside a division of Avanti Holding.

Avanti Holding brands, their parent division and what they do
Brand	Operates within	Description
Sir Fluffy	Avanti Food & Beverage	Autonomous smart-retail convenience centres and the Sir Fluffy café brand.
Sir Fluffy Café	Sir Fluffy	Destination café concept — specialty coffee, pastries, all-day dining and table reservations.
Sir Fluffy Investors	Sir Fluffy	Silent-investment model: an investor owns a Smart Convenience Centre, leased by Sir Fluffy Café Enterprise on a 3-year operating lease at 3% of centre cost per month.
Sir Fluffy Events	Sir Fluffy	Private, corporate and at-home event hire.
Jannah Restaurants	Avanti Food & Beverage	Emirati destination dining concept (coming soon), open to franchise partners.
The Big Fish	Avanti Food & Beverage	Destination restaurant and family attraction concept in Dubai (coming soon).
Paramount Miami	Avanti Food & Beverage	Fresh food trading arm — sourcing in India and Sri Lanka, cold-chain logistics, export and UAE distribution.

Where the group operates

Avanti Holding is headquartered in Dubai. Its property, hospitality, food and manufacturing activities are concentrated in the United Arab Emirates and the wider Gulf, with international activity in the United Kingdom and Europe. Paramount Miami, the group's fresh food trading arm, sources at farm gate in India and Sri Lanka and distributes into the UAE.

Further corporate references: the group's history since 1952, the corporate governance framework, investor relations and the interactive ecosystem map. For enquiries, use the department contact directory.

In brief

How Avanti Holding is structured and how it works

What kind of company is Avanti Holding?

Avanti Holding is a privately held diversified holding company. A diversified holding company owns controlling interests in operating businesses across unrelated sectors and manages them as a portfolio rather than as a single trading company. Avanti Holding applies that structure to nine divisions, holding them for the long term instead of trading them, and consolidating governance, capital allocation and technology at group level while each division keeps its own operating leadership.

Corporate governance

What differentiates Avanti Holding's business model?

Avanti Holding's business model is vertical integration across divisions that would normally be separate suppliers. The group manufactures the construction components used in its own developments, writes the AI software that runs its own buildings and outlets, operates the hospitality and food and beverage brands inside those buildings, and holds the resulting assets through its investment division. That structure means margin, data and quality control stay inside the group rather than being outsourced at each hand-over point.

How can clients or partners contact the relevant Avanti division?

Enquiries reach Avanti Holding through the contact page, where the enquiry form routes each message to the division that owns it — investment, development, supply, media or talent. Department addresses are published in the contact directory: hello@avantiholding.co.uk for general enquiries, ir@avantiholding.co.uk for investors, procurement@avantiholding.co.uk for suppliers and press@avantiholding.co.uk for media. Group headquarters are in Business Bay, Dubai.

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Definitions

Terms used on this page

Diversified holding company: A company whose principal activity is owning controlling interests in operating businesses across more than one sector, managing them as a long-term portfolio and providing governance, capital and shared services to them.

Key facts

Avanti Holding: key facts

Verified key facts about Avanti Holding, published by Avanti Holding.
Official name	Avanti Holding
Type	Diversified holding group
Sector	Diversified holding group
Parent organisation	None — Avanti Holding is the group parent
Primary activities	Ownership and oversight of operating divisions; Capital allocation; Group governance
Markets	United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, International
Official page	https://avantiholding.co.uk/about/company-profile

First-party information published by Avanti Holding

Company profile

Questions about Avanti Holding

What is Avanti Holding?: Avanti Holding is an Emirati international group founded in Fujairah in 1952 and headquartered in Dubai. It owns and operates nine divisions that are built to reinforce one another rather than to sit in a portfolio.
What does Avanti Holding do?: The group develops master-planned communities; produces food and operates restaurants, cafés and Sir Fluffy autonomous smart retail; runs hospitality assets; builds artificial-intelligence platforms through Avanti AI Labs; manufactures PPVC volumetric modules and structural steel; engineers defence and situational-awareness systems; and deploys permanent capital through Avanti Investment, alongside research and sustainability functions.
Where does Avanti Holding operate?: Avanti Holding is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and operates across the UAE and the wider Gulf, the United Kingdom and international markets. Its food supply chain sources from India and Sri Lanka.
How are Avanti Holding's brands related to the group?: Every brand sits inside a division. Sir Fluffy, Sir Fluffy Café, Jannah Restaurants, The Big Fish and Paramount Miami all operate within Avanti Food & Beverage, which in turn sits under the group's hospitality and food activities. Avanti Holding is the parent organisation of all nine divisions.
How is Avanti Holding governed?: Governance is set out publicly on the corporate governance page: Board reserved matters, an Audit & Risk Committee, an Investment Committee, a Remuneration & Nomination Committee, delegated authority levels and a three-lines-of-defence risk model.
How do I contact Avanti Holding?: Enquiries are routed by department from the contact page, or by email to hello@avantiholding.co.uk. Investor, media, careers and partnership enquiries each have a dedicated inbox on the avantiholding.co.uk domain.