Almunajem Foods Company

Almunajem Foods presents itself as one of the largest Saudi food companies engaged in the importation, marketing and distribution of frozen, chilled and dry foodstuffs, with its head office in the North Mathar district of Riyadh. Its investor-relations page states that it was founded in 1950 and that its shares are listed on the Saudi Exchange (Tadawul) under ticker 4162; it is a subsidiary of Abdullah Al Ali Al Munajem Sons Company. The site recounts that founder Abdullah Ali Almunajem started trading vegetables and fruit in Riyadh in the 1950s, then imported them from Syria and Lebanon, and built the city's first cold store. The company says it specialises in importing, marketing and distributing frozen and chilled foods, including poultry, meat, dairy, olives and olive oil, and that it imports more than 350,000 tonnes a year from international brands, with a market share of 10% to 30% depending on the category. The brands shown on its site include Doux for poultry, Silver Fern Farms for New Zealand lamb and veal, Fletcher for Australian lamb, Moralejo for Spanish lamb, Brazil's Villa Germania for duck, Président and Valbreso for cheese, Coopoliva (Agro Sevilla) for olives and olive oil, Lamb Weston for frozen potatoes and Asmak for seafood, alongside its own brands Dari, Montana and Marietta among more than 600 products. The company runs cold stores in Riyadh, Jeddah, Makkah, Madinah, Dammam, Al-Ahsa, Buraydah, Hail, Tabuk, Khamis Mushait and Jazan, covering more than 200,000 m² with storage capacity of over 55,000 tonnes, together with a refrigerated fleet of up to 1,000 trucks and about 2,300 employees. It says it distributes more than 700 SKUs directly to over 18,000 retail customers, serves more than 1,000 wholesale customers and more than 1,000 supermarket and mini-market outlets, works with chefs in hotels, restaurants and catering companies, and offers storage and transport services from its cold stores. The company states that its meat facility is halal-certified and that it holds ISO 22000:2018 food-safety certification. Its site lists medals of appreciation received for strengthening trade relations between Saudi Arabia and other countries, including the Medal of Merit from King Khalid bin Abdulaziz, France's Ordre National du Mérite and medals from Brazil, the United Kingdom and Denmark. Its stated vision is to be the leading company delivering food products that enrich the lives of millions, and it runs the unified customer-service number 920029855.