Born in Nairobi, I was educated at City Primary and Juja Road Primary schools. After 4 years at ESS, I joined Kenya Litho Ltd on a 5-year apprenticeship course of lithographic printing. After 10 years I migrated to the UK and started taking interest in the food business.

From humble beginnings in Kenya, I arrived in London in 1971. I started out as an exhibitor at the Ideal Home exhibition before taking on management and organisation of the Food Court for the same show. In 2004, I released the first of my annual events at Olympia, the Asian Lifestyle Show – a unique event offering quality Asian, mainstream, international and national products. It gave a rare opportunity to find goods that are generally inaccessible all under one roof. It went down as the biggest show in terms of attendance and revenue.

My recent innovative venture was to support Cambridge Biostability, where I sit on the Board of Directors. Cambridge Biostability is a new bioscience company with a portfolio of patents of a new technology that will revolutionise the way drugs are made, stored and delivered, saving millions of lives in underdeveloped countries.

I am married to Geeta and we have 2 daughters Puja and Priya and a son Ajay.

We are deeply saddened to say Vijay Saggar passed away on November 2017.

- As on November 2017