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Pakistan• Lahore

Fauji Foods Limited is a public company listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange. It took its current form in 2015 after acquiring Noon Pakistan Limited, which was incorporated on 26 September 1966 and has a dairy legacy of more than 50 years. The company is part of the Fauji Group of Companies, with FFBL as its major shareholder. The company states that its Nurpur brand, founded in 1966, is known in Pakistan for its butter. It relaunched the House of Nurpur in 2016 with a range covering UHT milk, low-fat milk, flavoured milk, dairy cream, butter and cheese (mozzarella, cheddar and American burger slices). In 2016 it also launched the Dostea liquid tea whitener. Its head office is in Lahore and its plant is at Qaisarabad, Bhalwal (Sargodha). A dedicated Food Services department supplies dairy products to restaurants, hotels and airlines, and lists McDonald's, Hardee's, KFC and Unilever among its clients.

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Pakistan• Karachi

FrieslandCampina Engro Pakistan is a listed dairy company that started as Engro Foods in 2005. It launched its flagship UHT milk brand Olper's in 2006 and Tarang tea-whitening products in 2007. In 2016 it formed a strategic partnership with Royal FrieslandCampina of the Netherlands, giving it access to more than 150 years of dairy expertise, technology and R&D. The company is headquartered in Karachi and operates two processing plants in Sukkur and Sahiwal. Its brands are Olper's, Tarang, OMORÉ, Dairy Omung and Omung Dobala; the Olper's range covers UHT milk, cream, flavoured milk, full cream milk powder, Tarrka desi ghee and high-protein Procal+ milk. In February 2023 the company signed a franchise agreement with Engro Eximp FZE as its global export franchise, aiming to grow dairy exports from Pakistan and serve the Pakistani diaspora and milk-deficient markets.

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Pakistan• Lahore

Nestlé has operated in Pakistan since 1988 through a joint venture with Milk Pak Ltd, taking over management in 1992; its registered office is in Lahore. The company runs factories in Sheikhupura, Kabirwala, Islamabad and Karachi (Port Qasim). The company describes NESTLÉ MILKPAK as 'Pakistan's Dairy Expert', providing milk for over 35 years. Its dairy export catalogue covers MILKPAK Full Cream UHT Milk, MILKPAK Dairy Cream with 29.5% fat and unsalted butter with 82% milk fat, alongside other powdered and beverage products. On its exports page the company states it doubled its global export presence to 32 countries in 2025, and that MILKPAK cream has reached Afghanistan, Tajikistan, the UAE, the USA and China. Export enquiries are handled through a dedicated exports email.

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Turkey• Istanbul

The Bahçıvan Peynir factory began operating in 1992 in Lüleburgaz, Kırklareli, on 44,000 m² of open space and 20,000 m² of covered space. The company states it uses advanced technology and expert staff to produce cheese and cheese products, butter and industrial products. The factory holds BRCGS, Halal production, ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certification and an export approval for European Union countries, and the company states it was among the first brands in Turkey to obtain ISO 50001. Its range includes white cheese, fresh kashar, mozzarella, strained cheese, labneh, regional cheeses, toast cheese and traditional butter. The company states it is among the top exporters in the dairy category, exporting cheese to more than 30 countries on four continents. Its head office is in Sarıyer, Istanbul.

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Turkey• Istanbul

Founded in 1996, Ak Gıda states it is Turkey's largest producer of milk and dairy products, with five production facilities in Sakarya, Karaman, Lüleburgaz, Kahramanmaraş and Tire and a daily milk processing capacity of 5,000 tons. It launched the İçim brand in 1998, started exporting dairy products in 2000, joined Groupe Lactalis in 2015, and also markets the Président and Masterini brands. The company states its range exceeds 300 products, from UHT and pasteurized milk, yogurt, ayran and kefir to fresh cheeses, labneh, cream, kaymak and milk desserts; İçim Labneh won Gold at the 2018 World Cheese Awards. According to a news item on its brand site, the company exports more than 20,000 tons of products to over 30 countries in the Caucasus, Egypt, North Africa and the Middle East, was one of the first in its sector to export to China, and its Sakarya plant received EU approval to export labneh and fresh cheese.

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Modern Milk & Juice Co., known by its Hana Farms brand, was established in Al-Ghouta in the Damascus countryside. The company states it was the first dairy company set up under Investment Law No. 10 relying on fresh milk for all its products, the first to introduce UHT technology in Syria, the first to fill long-life milk in plastic bottles needing no refrigeration, and the first to use Tetra Pak cartons for milk. Its range includes full-cream and low-fat long-life milk, flavored milk (banana, strawberry, chocolate, vanilla, Oreo), yogurt and labneh, spreadable cheese in triangles and cups, processed block cheese, kashkaval, and mozzarella and akkawi for restaurants and pizza, plus cream desserts and juices; it also markets the Zein brand. The company states its products cover Syrian cities and neighboring countries including Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Yemen.

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Lebanon• Jdeidet El Metn

Taanayel Les Fermes states that it is the leading dairy company in Lebanon, with a wide-ranging line of natural, authentic and traditional products. A constant supply of fresh milk comes from its own farms in the Bekaa valley and from independent local farmers it supports. The company states its products are made from 100% natural milk, free of additives and preservatives, with stringent quality control at every step of the dairy chain. Its range covers fresh and UHT milk, laban and labneh (including goat labneh), halloum, akkaoui, helwi, baladi and mozzarella cheeses, plus fruit yogurts, dairy desserts and ayran. The company's website does not list specific export markets.

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Jordan• Amman

Jordan Dairy Company Ltd. was founded in 1968 and states it is the only public shareholding company operating in Jordan's dairy sector. It markets its products under the Al-Maha brand and puts its market share at around 12%. Its dairy factory in Ruseifeh, on 6.7 dunums of land, produces pasteurized milk, yoghurt, labneh, white and yellow cheeses, jameed and shaninah on four filling lines. Through Al Maha for Agricultural and Livestock Investment it owns a 150-dunum cattle farm in Mafraq with 3,200 cows, of which about 1,500 are milked daily; the company states the milk averages 3.7% fat. The company also runs a plastics factory producing containers from 160 g to 1,000 g and a fleet of 39 specially equipped vehicles serving all Jordanian governorates. It does not publish export data.

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Sudan• Khartoum North

DAL Dairy is the dairy business of DAL Food, part of Sudan's DAL Group, and markets its products under the CAPO brand. DAL Dairy Factory was established in 1997 to pioneer pasteurised fresh milk and UHT milk in Sudan; the group states it became the country's top dairy processing company, and in 2013 it merged with the group's other food companies to form DAL Food. The CAPO range includes pasteurised and long-life milk, plain and fruit yoghurt, cheese, cream, butter and mish, a traditional Sudanese dairy delicacy. The company runs its own distribution with a fleet of refrigerated trucks, and the dairy business moved into a new plant in Khartoum North designed together with Tetra Pak. The group cites a herd of 3,000 Holstein/Friesian cows and 200,000 yoghurt cups produced per day. In 2000 the business received ISO 9001:1994 approval from Lloyd's Register, which the group describes as the first ISO certification in Sudan; it was most recently renewed in 2010 to ISO 9001:2008. The group does not publish dairy export data.

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Mauritania• Nouakchott

Tiviski is a dairy in Nouakchott, Mauritania, that started operating in April 1989 under the name Laitière de Mauritanie to bridge the gap between fresh milk in the countryside and consumers in the capital. The company states it was the first dairy in West Africa to collect raw milk from nomadic herders, and that its first product was pasteurised camel milk in a carton. It buys camel, cow and goat milk from hundreds of pastoralists; the milk is delivered to two collecting centres near pasture in Rosso and Boghé, within a radius of about 90 km, and carried chilled to Nouakchott in insulated tanker trucks. The company says it follows HACCP quality-control procedures, uses no preservatives, and has produced UHT cow milk under a Candia franchise since 2002. Its range includes Tiviski camel milk, Leezib cultured camel milk, El Badia cow milk, butter, yogurts, ice cream and Caravane, which the company calls the only cheese in the world made from camel milk. The GAFSP fund, which invested in the company's expansion in 2016, cites a milk collection capacity of 42,000 litres per day and a goal of creating export potential for camel milk powder.

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Algeria• Akbou, Béjaïa

Laiterie Soummam was founded in 1993 by the Hamitouche family in Akbou, northern Algeria. In 2000 it opened a new production site with modern equipment, and since 2009 it has run a milk-production programme involving independent farmers, collection centres and transport across the country. The company states it has two production sites and 51 production lines with a stated capacity of 1.8 million tonnes per year, and more than 183 product references in four businesses: yogurts and desserts, milk drinks, UHT milk and cheese. It reports 2,000 permanent jobs and over 10,000 indirect jobs. The company cites 13,837 m² of in-house cold storage and a fleet of refrigerated trucks serving regional distribution centres in 58 wilayas every day.

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Morocco• Taroudant

COPAG is a Moroccan agricultural cooperative founded in 1987 in Aït Iazza, Taroudant province. It states it brings together more than 24,000 farmers and 72 member cooperatives, with over 9,500 direct employees, and that 95% of its members are small livestock farmers. Its activities cover milk and dairy products, red meat, and citrus and early vegetables. Its dairy products are sold under the Jaouda brand and include UHT milk (whole, semi-skimmed, lactose-free), fresh pasteurized milk, flavored milk, leben, raïb, kefir, a wide yogurt range, fresh and processed cheese, butter and cooking cream. The company history notes a dairy manufacturing unit commissioned in Larache in 2013. The company states it exports to various international destinations through its trading company Prim Atlas.