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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.

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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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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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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.

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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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.

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Tunisia• Tunis

Délice states it began in 1978 and has become the number-one dairy brand in Tunisia, serving 8 million consumers a day from factories spread across the country. Group companies include the Cap-Bon dairy plant (Soliman), the Northern dairy plant (Bousalem), and the Sidi Bouzid dairy plant, founded in 2011 and in production since April 2014, as well as STIAL (Délice Danone) and the Compagnie Fromagère at Borj Cedria. Its range covers milk and milk drinks such as flavored milk, milkshakes, leben and raïeb, cream and butter, yogurts and dairy desserts, and processed cheese (triangles, squares, grated) and fresh cheese, alongside juices and water. The company lists ISO 22000 certification for its Northern and Cap-Bon dairy plants and ISO 17025 accreditation for its laboratories, and has an export department and an export catalogue published on its website.

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Bahrain• Al Hajar

Awal Dairy Company states it is the first dairy company in Bahrain, established in 1963, a closely held private limited company producing and distributing dairy products, juices and ice cream. It lists FSSC 22000, Halal (GSO 2055-1) and HACCP certification. Its Awal-branded range includes full cream, low fat, skimmed and lactose-free milk, evaporated and flavoured milk, creamy Turkish-style labneh, laban and yoghurt, shredded mozzarella, salted and unsalted butter, thick, cooking and sterilized cream, alongside Fabion ice cream and juices. The company is based in Al Hajar, Bahrain, with branches in Dammam (Saudi Arabia) and Kuwait. Bahrain's labour fund Tamkeen describes it as an exporter of its products to regional markets, supported in an expansion to raise production and exports.

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Saudi Arabia• Riyadh

Almarai states that its story began in 1977 with fresh milk and laban processing in Saudi Arabia, later expanding into modern dairy farms and state-of-the-art processing plants. Its website says it offers 670 products across 20 brands and produces 4 million liters of milk a day. The Almarai dairy range covers fresh and long-life milk, laban and yoghurt, feta, halloumi, mozzarella, sliced and tinned cheeses, butter, ghee, gaimar and cooking cream, evaporated and sweetened condensed milk, milk powder and ice cream, alongside brands for juices, bakery and poultry. The company states it runs the largest food and beverage fleet in the Middle East (more than 12,000 vehicles) and that its products reach more than 220,000 points of sale across 7 countries, with offices and warehouses in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain. It applies an ISO 22000 / FSSC 22000 food safety management system and has a dedicated foodservice and manufacturing sales division, Almarai Pro.

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UAE• Dubai

Al Rawabi Dairy states that its journey began in 1989 on its farm in Al Khawaneej, Dubai, with 500 cows imported from Germany, and that it is now one of the UAE's leading dairy and juice companies, with more than 14,000 cattle on a 300-acre farm serving over one million customers a day. Its website says it produces more than 250,000 liters of milk per day from its Dubai farms and has a daily capacity of 275,000 liters of dairy products and 150,000 liters of juices. Its range covers fresh and long-life milk, flavored milk, laban, yoghurt, cream, halloumi, mozzarella, sliced and triangle cheeses, cream cheese spread and Turkish labneh. The company states its products reached Oman in 1992, marking the start of its international markets, that it has earned ISO certifications for quality management, environmental management and food safety, and that it built a 1.3 MW biogas power plant in 2021. It also says it was named the #1 Most Chosen Brand in the UAE in Kantar's Brand Footprint 2025 report.