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Orient Gate is a Syrian company located in southern Tartous, seven kilometres from the city centre, a city it describes as one of Syria's most important strategic ports on the eastern Mediterranean coast. The company says it specialises in the filtration and packaging of olive oil in line with the standards set by the International Olive Council, and its logo reads 'For Producing & Packing Olive Oil'. It offers two grades: extra virgin olive oil from cold-pressed olives with acidity of no more than 0.8% and peroxide below 20 mg oxygen/kg, and virgin olive oil with acidity of no more than 2%, both free of any refined oil. The oil is filled into Marasca glass bottles of 250, 500, 750 and 1000 ml, gallon-style glass bottles from 250 ml to 2880 ml, round plastic bottles from 500 ml to 5 L, square plastic containers of 5 and 8 L, and 10 L and 16 kg tins. The company says it selects oil from Syria's best-known olive farms, where production goes back more than two hundred years, tests it in its own laboratory for conformity with international standards, and fills it on a fully automated, high-capacity Italian line that seals containers with plastic or aluminium caps without manual handling, monitoring every stage of production. According to its website it holds ISO 22000 (food safety management) and ISO 9001 (quality management) certifications.

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UAE• Sharjah

Al Sanna says it was founded in Syria in 1995, initially specialising in olives, olive oil, pickles, chili pastes, makdous and tahini, and opened its first branch in the United Arab Emirates in 1998; the company operates as Al Sanna Foodstuff Tr. LLC from Industrial Area 3 in Sharjah and set up a second branch in Berlin, Germany, in 2019. Its website also lists a Syrian address in Kafria, Idlib governorate. Its Syrian-origin products include extra virgin olive oil in glass bottles from 250 ml to 3 L and 3, 10 and 16 L aluminium tins; green and black olives (Kalamata, Idlibi and Tufahi) and olives stuffed with carrot, lemon or red pepper; pickles (mixed, cucumber, turnip and pepper); makdous stuffed with walnuts and peppers and preserved in olive oil; and Al-Sanaa and Al-Aliaa tahini. Under its two brands it also markets cheeses (kashkaval, mozzarella, akkawi, feta), labneh, spices, legumes, freekeh, molokhia, nuts, canned foods, Indian rice, pasta, sauces, vinegar, pomegranate molasses and vegetable oils. The company says it expanded from the UAE into the Gulf, the Middle East and Asia, supplies a full range to restaurants, bakeries and supermarkets, and entered the European and American markets through its Berlin branch. Its website shows an ASM HACCP certificate covering local purchase, imports, warehousing, distribution and export of food products, and a 2024 US FDA food facility registration certificate.

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Turkey• Afyonkarahisar

Tarım Kredi Yağ is a subsidiary of Tarım Kredi Holding in Turkey, headquartered in the Organized Industrial Zone of Afyonkarahisar. The company states that it was separated in November 2022 from Tarım Kredi Tedarik ve Üretim A.Ş. and now operates as its own entity. Its facilities include a crude oil plant in Uzunköprü, Edirne, processing 250 tons of sunflower seed per day (75,000 tons per year); a refining and filling plant in Kırklareli, where a 120 t/day refinery was added in 2013, producing 36,000 tons of refined sunflower oil per year; and integrated plants in Afyonkarahisar with an annual capacity of 207,360 tons of oilseed. The company also produces olive oil and table olives at its Gömeç, Balıkesir facility, and lists ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 22000, ISO 45001 and Halal certifications.

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The company operates as Syrian Olive Oil Company (private joint-stock) and states that it was established under Investment Law No. 10 of 1991. It says it produces olive oil, sunflower oil, corn oil and palm-based vegetable ghee, as well as vegetable butter. The company states that its plants lie about 10 km south of Tartus near the port, with storage tanks in the port free zone, and that it runs 6 production lines with a refining capacity of 200 tons per day, cold storage of 5,000 m³ and more than 200 employees. Its products are sold under three brands: Al-Reef, Al-Khair and Al-Kharif. The company states that it exports to more than 15 countries, including Italy, Spain, Australia, the United States and Gulf states, and that it has more than 1,530 points of sale inside Syria. Its site lists ISO 9001:2015, ISO 22000, HACCP, Halal and EU Organic certifications.

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Morocco• Agadir

The company states that it has operated in the food sector since 1948, when the Oued Souss olive oil brand was created, and that it was inaugurated as Les Huileries du Souss Belhassan in 1976. It is based on Rue Al Milaha in Anza, Agadir. It lists four production units: Anza (Agadir) for crushing, refining and bottling; Tassila (Agadir) for refining and packing, margarine and soap; and units in Marrakech and Ain Taoujdate for crushing, refining and bottling. It launched the Lousra and Zohor brands in 1995, Lio in 2005 and Lio Sunflower in 2020. Its range covers sunflower oil, table oils, olive oil, margarine, tea, soap and chocolate spread. The company states it has held ISO 9001 certification since 2003 and OHSAS 18001 certification.

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Morocco• Fès

The Société Industrielle Oléicole de Fès (SIOF) was founded in 1961 by the Lahbabi family, starting with olive crushing, olive-pomace oil extraction and olive canning. In 1966 it was authorised to build an edible-oil refinery, and in 1972 it added packaging manufacture and oil bottling. The company states that its core activities are olive crushing, pomace-oil extraction, edible-oil refining, packing of table oil, olive oil and sunflower oil, and canning of olives and capers; it also makes harissa, preserved lemon and harira soup. It supplies oils in flexitanks, in bulk, and in glass and PET bottles, under brands including Andaloussia and Inaoune. It is based in the Dokkarat industrial zone of Fès with a second site in the Sidi Brahim industrial zone. It states that it exports to 30 countries and employs about 220 people, and it displays FSSC 22000, IFS Food, Star-K Kosher and Halal certifications.

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Morocco• Casablanca

Lesieur Cristal was founded in 1941 and is a subsidiary of the French Groupe Avril. The company states that it covers the full value chain of its sector, from farming to distribution, and holds about 60% of Morocco's table-oil market. It has six production sites: four in Morocco, one in Tunisia and one in Senegal. It reports capacity to crush 350,000 tonnes of seeds a year, refine 400,000 tonnes of crude oil a year and produce 12,000 tonnes of margarine a year, alongside olive crushing and soap making. It supplies refined oils to fish canning, margarine, biscuit and frying industries, and meal to the animal-feed industry. Its brands include Lesieur, Cristal, Huilor, Al Horra, Magdor, Taous and El Kef. It is headquartered in Roches Noires, Casablanca, states that it exports to 42 countries on four continents, and lists ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 22000 and Halal certification.

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Al-Raed Food Import and Export Company is based in the Bab al-Hawa Industrial City in Idlib. It says it was founded in 2010 and that its owners have for generations cultivated, traded and exported agricultural crops from Syria to Europe and the Arab world, before the business expanded into importing food products from global brands and marketing them under its own trademark, Ammi Al-Haj. The Ammi Al-Haj catalogue covers virgin and extra virgin olive oil, sunflower oil, vegetable ghee and cow's ghee; French, Egyptian, kabsa, American and creamy and golden basmati rice; pulses such as fava beans, red and green lentils, chickpeas, white beans and corn; bulgur, semolina and freekeh; spices such as cumin, anise, black seed, safflower, bay leaf and mahaleb; red and green zaatar; black tea, karak tea and yerba mate; golden coffee; canned tuna; chicken luncheon meat; milk powder; Saudi dates such as Ajwa, Khudri, Sagai and Medjool; walnuts and seeds; and Pure Juice nectars. Its Gulfood 2026 exhibitor profile describes the company as an importer, distributor and exporter of food products, primarily edible oils of all kinds and basic foodstuffs, with a network of business partnerships inside Syria and abroad. Its website shows partner brands Tamima, Ar2to, 525 and Ahl Al-Dira, and does not publish certifications or a list of export countries.

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Almanar Trading Company, based in Idlib, Syria, states that its activity began in 1993 and that over the years it built the ALMANAR brand in local and international markets. It is part of OGARETCO GROUP (Ugarit Group of Companies), which has established companies in Saudi Arabia (Jeddah), the UAE (Dubai), Turkey (Mersin), Germany (Hamburg) and Sudan (Omdurman); the group's website cites 3 factories, more than 200 employees and more than 12 branches. The company is known for manufacturing and trading olive oil under the ALMANAR and Ugarit brands, in tins from 175 ml to 16 kg, plastic bottles from 500 ml to 5 L and glass bottles of 500 ml and 1 L, and for ALMANAR dried figs (10 kg bulk, 1 kg display packs, fig strings, trays and round packs of 300 to 750 g). The range also covers mahlab and spices (black seed, cumin, anise, turmeric, cardamom, saffron and more), dried fruits (raisins, apricots, qamar al-din apricot paste), pulses (red, yellow, green and black lentils, fava beans, chickpeas, mung beans), nuts (pistachios, walnuts, almonds, cashews, hazelnuts, pine nuts) and Brazilian coffee. The company says its olives are collected from old olive trees, pressed and tested with modern technology and packed to international standards, and that its figs are naturally dried, washed and sterilised before packing. The group's website cites an annual volume of more than 50,000 tons; the group exhibited at Gulfood Dubai in 2020 and Almanar Trading Company exhibited at Gulfood 2026.

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Turkey• Bornova, İzmir

The company states that its story began in 1938 when Anthony Micaleff started olive oil production in İzmir, and that it was incorporated in 1945 as Ticaret ve Sanayi Kontuvarı T.A.Ş. It describes Kristal as Türkiye's first branded olive oil and the first to export branded, packaged olive oil. Besides olive oil, the company produces vegetable oils such as sunflower and corn oil, and states that it exports olive oil to more than 35 countries. It has been an affiliate of Arkas Holding since a 2007 partnership, set up an olive oil company in Valencia, Spain, in 2018 and joined the TURQUALITY programme in 2021. Its factory is in Bornova, İzmir, with another plant in Ayvalık, and its laboratory has been recognised by the International Olive Council since 2014. It lists BRCGS, ISO 22000, ISO 9001, FDA, FSMA, Kosher, Halal and organic certifications.

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Wadi Alamin Company states that it was founded in 1987 and specialises in spices, dried fruits, oils and nuts, presenting its goods under the Alamin logo. The Gulfood 2026 exhibitor directory lists the company as "AL Amin Co" among the Syrian exhibitors with an address in Ariha, Idlib governorate, while its own website publishes a contact address in Akdeniz, Mersin (Türkiye) and a Turkish phone number. The sample range shown on its website covers five groups: dried fruits (dried apricots, golden raisins, sun-dried raisins), herbs (thyme, sage, dried rose), nuts and seeds (in-shell pistachios, hazelnut kernels, roasted hazelnuts, yellow roasted chickpeas, red watermelon seeds), spices (sumac, sesame) and Alamin-branded olive oil, which the company shows in a 1-litre glass bottle and in tins. The company states that it supplies the UAE, Saudi Arabian and Turkish markets and that it holds HACCP certification, ISO certifications for quality, food safety, environmental and occupational health and safety management systems, and Halal certification. Buyers can request samples through its website; the company invited visitors to its stand at Gulfood Dubai 2024 and exhibited again at Gulfood 2026.

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Al Raky for Food Industries states that it was founded in 1951 in Damascus by the late Kamel Zakaria Durgham, is headquartered in Rural Damascus, and opened a branch in Turkey in 1983. Its catalogue says it owns a 15,000 m² factory in Damascus and a factory in Hatay, Turkey, and that it is led by General Manager Mhd Zakaria Durgham and his sons Yahia and Mhd Eid. Its website lists more than 40 products in 12 categories: first-press virgin olive oil in glass, tin, PET and jerrycan packs from 175 ml to 10 litres; green and black olives (Aleppo, Salkini, Daghma, sliced, stuffed, olive salad); apricot, strawberry, Damascene mulberry, cherry, fig and rose jams; pickles (spiced cucumber, wild cucumber, mixed vegetables); makdous in oil; tomato paste; pomegranate molasses and sauce; white and apple vinegar; vine leaves and yalanji; hummus with tahini and tahini; orange blossom and rose water; plus sweet corn, mushrooms, okra, artichokes and hot red pepper. The company's catalogue states that its products are exported to all Arab countries, Africa, Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia. It offers wholesale and private label, and exhibited at Gulfood 2026 in Dubai. No quality certifications are stated on its website.