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Egypt• Cairo

Arab Dairy (Panda) was established in September 1985 as an Egyptian joint-stock company and began production in 1990. It was originally set up to produce white cheese, and in 1990 its objective was expanded to cover all dairy products and cheese types; its shares have been listed on the Egyptian Exchange since January 2001. The factory is in Sandbis, Qanater El Khairiya, Qalyubia Governorate, with the administrative office and sales branch in the Katameya industrial zone, Cairo. The company states it produces white, processed and Swiss cheese under the Panda, Dairy and Panda Gourmet brands and complies with ISO 9001 and HACCP procedures. Its website lists exports to 22 countries, including Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Turkey, Pakistan, Kenya, Tanzania and Thailand.

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Egypt• El Obour City

Obour Land for Food Industries is an Egyptian company based in the First Industrial Zone of El Obour City. The company states it is a leading dairy manufacturer in Egypt that supports local farmers and sustainable practices. It runs an investor-relations website where it publishes its periodic financial results. Its website lists 35 white-cheese products and 13 processed-cheese products under the Obourland and Mafroda brands, 9 milk products, and a juice range. The export category holds 29 products under the Lovely and Obour Garden brands, including feta, cream cheese and flavored milk. The company has an export department with an export director and two export managers, reachable through its dedicated export email.

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Egypt• Sheikh Zayed, Giza

Juhayna Food Industries is an Egyptian company founded in 1983 by Safwan Thabet that produces, processes and packages dairy, juice and cooking products. It states it was the first to bring packaged milk to the Egyptian market and that it is the leading dairy company in Egypt. The company states it operates four manufacturing plants, including the El Dawleya complex (operational since 2009), the El Marwa factory (1998) and the El Masreya factory (acquired in 2005), plus two specialized facilities for yogurts and yogurt drinks such as Rayeb and Zabado, and a fully owned 600-feddan livestock farm with capacity for 7,500 milking cows. It lists more than 200 products, over 4,000 employees and a distribution network serving more than 262,000 retail outlets. The company states its products have reached 62 countries and that it runs an integrated management system to ISO 9001, FSSC 22000, ISO 45001, ISO 14001 and ISO 50001. It has an export section with an export catalogue and a dedicated export email.

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Iraq• Duhok

Kavin Ltd is an agribusiness company based in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq that states it specializes in dairy and agricultural production. Its projects in Duhok Governorate include Kavin Farm, a hydroponic greenhouse project and an olive-tree project. The company states that Kavin Farm covers more than 2.5 million square meters and includes automated milking parlors, specialized barns, a modern dairy processing plant, grazing fields and feed-cultivation areas, as well as a veterinary hospital and a manure treatment facility. Its listed products include full cream UHT milk, flavored and low-fat milk, plain, Greek and flavored yogurt, feta and mozzarella cheese, fresh butter, cooking cream and ayran.

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Oman• As'Sunainah

Mazoon Dairy Company states it is the largest integrated dairy company in the Sultanate of Oman, with a capital outlay of OMR 100 million, incorporated on 1 January 2015 under the National Food Security initiative. Its site is in As'Sunainah, Al Buraimi Governorate, spread over 15 sq km. The integrated facility includes a dairy farm with capacity for over 25,000 cows and a 50,000 sqm Central Processing Plant able to produce over one million litres of liquid milk per day, with lines for fresh dairy, long-life milk, cheese, ice cream and juices, plus a waste-water treatment plant and a biogas plant. The company says its fresh milk, long-life milk, flavoured milk, yoghurt, laban, ice cream, cheese and juices reach consumers across the GCC region. The company states it is ISO 9001:2015, ISO 22000:2018, ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2017 compliant.

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Kuwait• Kuwait City

KDD was founded in 1962 as the Danish Kuwaiti Dairy Company (Dankuwa) in Shuwaikh, starting with pasteurized milk and yoghurt. In 1981–82 it inaugurated the Sabhan factory with long-life UHT milk technology and became 100% Kuwaiti under its current name, having added an ice cream line in the 1970s and a labneh line in 1978. The company states that in 1985 it introduced a cheese production line and began exporting to GCC countries, followed by expansion to MENA and other global markets, and opened branches in Saudi Arabia and the UAE in 2003–04. It produces and distributes 24 varieties of dairy products, 75 varieties of ice cream and 27 juices and fruit drinks, plus culinary products such as thick cream, liquid cream and tomato paste. The company lists FSSC 22000, ISO 14001, ISO 27001 and ISO 45001 certification, a Halal certificate, the Kuwait Conformity Assessment Scheme and the Emirates Quality Mark.

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Qatar• Al Khor

Baladna describes itself as Qatar's largest dairy and beverage producer, with a fully vertically integrated farm-to-shelf model. Its facility north of Doha covers 2.4 million sqm with capacity for 24,000 dairy cows, and includes on-site milk filling, packaging, cheese and dairy production. The company's website reports three factories for milk, dairy products and juices with a capacity of 700 tons of dairy per day plus 200 tons of juice, 80 tons of UHT milk daily, and more than 268 SKUs under the Baladna and Awafi brands. The range covers fresh and long-life milk, milk powder, evaporated milk, laban, ayran, labneh, yoghurt and Arabic cheeses such as halloumi, akawi, majdoula, moshalal and nabulsi. The company states it has started exporting to regional markets, and publishes share and financial information for investors on its website.

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UAE• Al Ain

Al Ain Farms states it was founded in 1981 by the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Father of the UAE, and was the first dairy company established in the United Arab Emirates, starting with a milk processing plant and 200 imported Friesian cows. It describes itself today as the largest integrated dairy and poultry company, running five farms covering dairy, juices, camel milk production, a hatchery and poultry. Its website says its farms were merged into a single farm at Al Foah, where its corporate headquarters is located, equipped with international technology for feeding, milking and processing. Its range includes fresh, UHT and flavored milk, laban, yoghurt and cheese, camel milk and Camelait camel milk powder, which received SIAL Innovation Awards. The company states it exports its products across the GCC, Asia, China, Europe and the USA. Its export page shows ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, ISO 22000:2018 and ISO 45001:2018 certificates and GSO Halal certification, and it publishes a dedicated email for export inquiries.

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Saudi Arabia• Jeddah

Saudia Dairy and Foodstuff Company (SADAFCO) states that its story began on 21 April 1976, that it was formally created by the merger of three dairy companies, and that it listed on the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) in 2005. It describes itself as the market leader in Saudi Arabia in long-life milk, tomato paste and ice cream, marketing its core products under the flagship Saudia brand, alongside Baboo ice cream and Crispy snacks. The company operates three factories in Jeddah (two sites) and Dammam, plus a plant in Poland following its acquisition of 76% of Mlekoma, with its head office in Jeddah. It states it employs close to 3,000 people, has annual net sales above SAR 2 billion, and sells in the GCC and selected export markets in the Middle East and North Africa, with sales and distribution facilities in Doha, Amman, Manama and Kuwait City. The company states that its three factories and Riyadh depot are certified to ISO 22000:2018, ISO 14001:2015 and occupational health and safety standards, and that all its factories are Halal certified.

Jordan• Al Dhulail (Zarqa)

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.

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Libya• Zliten

A large Libyan food-industry complex in Zliten spanning 18 factories and silos over 100 hectares. It produces pasta, couscous, rice, oils, flour, semolina, sugar, evaporated milk and tomato paste, and was the first Libyan complex to obtain FDA registration for export.

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Pakistan• Karachi

Dairyland (Dayfresh) is a Pakistani dairy company based in Karachi that operates its own dairy farm and processing facility with more than 4,000 Australian cows. It is described as Pakistan's first producer of lactose-free milk, with a presence across five regions of the country.