Ali Mirzazadeh started his carpet business in Tehran more than 40 years ago. In the 80s he came to Hamburg and founded the Mirzazadeh Export-Import GmbH. The company settled in the free port in Magdeburger Straße. With the dissolution of the free port, with the emigration or the dissolution of several Oriental carpet import companies from the Magdeburger Straße and at the same time with a generational change, a new orientation became necessary for Mirzazadeh. The warehouse at the old location was no longer sufficient for the demands of an international audience. Shahram decided together with his father for a change of location. The Oriental carpet export and import company bought at the Papenreye a 2000 square meter plot with a two-storey building with about 1150 square meters of floor space. And they moved to Papenreye.<ref>https://www.raumausstattung.de/business/artikel.php?record_id=36875&dbname=Wirtschaft</ref><br>
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Now Ali Mirzazadeh is the head of the Union for Persian Carpet Importers in Europe.<ref>https://financialtribune.com/articles/economy-domestic-economy/44258/persian-rug-s-reputation-at-risk</ref> and deputy of manufacturers' Union and exporters of handmade rugs in Iran.<ref>http://www.ircpe.com/managers</ref>