ITL was founded in 1953. In 1958, within 5 years, it obtained a Decree of Incorporation from the late Ruler of Dubai and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum and is the first Company in Dubai to receive this royal decree. This was during the time when Dubai was still a part of the Trucial States. Even as of 1959, it had only four employees in this small outpost office led by Mr. Murij Manghnani and ran as a subsidiary unit of the Intra Group. In fact, Intra Group was linked to the Chotirmall Group, a large trading corporation established in 1875 and based in Hong Kong, that mainly operated in Asia-Pacific and particularly Japan and South-East Asian markets such as Indonesia and Singapore
