Al Shaikh International Company for Food Industries (Al Shaikh Cheese)

Al Shaikh International Company for Food Industries ("Al Shaikh") is a specialty cheese manufacturer in Al Dhulail, Zarqa governorate. The company states its business began in 1945 as a cow farm in the village of Al-'Arqa (Jenin) founded by Shaikh Ahmed Hussein Al-Arqawi, started making Mashmoula and Nabulsi cheese in 1950, and that his son Abdel Salam Al-Arqawi later built a dedicated factory in Jordan for cheeses used in sweets and pastries, now run by the third generation. Its profile says Al Shaikh Farms has 6,000 cows on 350 acres producing up to 120 tonnes of fresh milk a day, with a rotary milking parlour. The range centres on Mashmoula cheese for kunafa (2.75 kg bags, 11 kg boxes) and Mashmoula cheese for sweets and pastries (500 g, 1 kg, 11 kg), plus frozen Mashmoula, Nabulsi sheep cheese (1 kg, 3 kg and 11 kg tins), sweet/desalted cheese for pastries and thick cream (5 kg buckets). The company states it holds ISO 22000, HACCP, GMP, FSSC 22000, the Jordanian Quality Mark and Halal certification, that its products reach 100 clients in 12 countries, and that it runs an R&D department with a research agreement signed in 2018 with the Faculty of Agriculture at Jordan University of Science and Technology. It is listed in the Jordanian Exporters Directory 2025–2026 published by the Amman Chamber of Industry.