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Jordan• Amman

The company states that in 1932 Abdul-Azeem Sharawi, the eldest of six brothers from a merchant family known in Jerusalem and later Amman, founded the "Sharawi Chewing Gum Factory"; the family then moved into manufacturing with the Sharawi Bros chewing-gum factory just outside Amman, completed at the end of 1965, with production starting in 1966. It says the plant has since grown to six times its original size. The range is chewing gum only, in several lines: Sharawi Two Dragees (2-piece packets) in mastic, strawberry, watermelon, fruit, coffee, cinnamon, peppermint and licorice flavours, the best seller being the mastic 2-pack; the original Sharawi SB (4 dragees in a small cube pack) in peppermint, fruit and cinnamon; and Sharawi Wribson in spearmint and coolmint, all shipped in cartons of display boxes. The company states it holds ISO 22000:2018 and HACCP certificates and that its gum is sold in Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Libya, Qatar, Syria, Kuwait, Turkey, Germany, Canada, Australia, the USA, New Zealand, Palestine, Sudan, the UAE, South Africa, Bahrain and Sweden. It is listed in the Jordanian Exporters Directory 2025–2026 published by the Amman Chamber of Industry.

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Jordan• Karak

Kemeh International for Food Industries is a Jordanian chocolate producer based in the Karak Qasabah District of Karak Governorate, trading under the Kemeh brand, whose logo carries the words "since 1878". Its website says the company began as a family business decades ago and was one of the oldest chocolate producers in the region, relying on European production lines, and that under the management of Mohamed Samir and Abdulrahman Al-Kemeh it became the first company in the region to produce chocolate beans coated with coloured candy, later expanding into biscuits and wafers with new production lines. Its products include Samiry milk-chocolate beans with a colourful crispy shell (including Samery Excessive, 325 g per piece and 24 pieces per box, plus eyeglass-shaped and blister packs); Samiry peanuts with a bright-coloured coating; Kemeh Dragee, peanuts coated with milk chocolate and a crisp sugar shell; the Planet range of assorted fine chocolates, chocolate balls, cigars and squares in 2 kg boxes; and Candy Bar, biscuit, cream and peanuts covered with chocolate. The company also names the brands Shanwar, Filotki and Tip Top. The company states that besides Arab markets it serves European markets, Latin America and many African countries. It is listed in the Jordanian Exporters Directory 2025–2026 published by the Amman Chamber of Industry.

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Rayan Food is a food manufacturer based in the Industrial City of Bab al-Hawa, Idlib governorate, in north-western Syria. The company says it combines traditional recipes with modern quality standards, and its website lists more than 17 products across 5 brands: Rayan Food (the flagship), Layan, Al-Raheeq, Mirna Mawed and Mawed Sawar. Its range has two lines: luncheon meat and canned pulses. Chicken luncheon (mortadella-type), made from selected chicken meat, comes in 200 g and 340 g cans under Rayan Food, Layan and Al-Raheeq, and in 200 g under Mirna Mawed (well-seasoned) and Mawed Sawar (ready-to-eat, for quick meals and sandwiches). The canned line covers hummus with tahini (200 g and 400 g), foul medammas (cooked fava beans), boiled chickpeas and green peas (400 g each), all under the Rayan Food, Layan and Al-Raheeq brands. The company states that it is Halal certified and follows ISO standards, and that its products are made without artificial preservatives. Its Gulfood 2026 exhibitor profile (the company exhibited there) lists ISO 9001, FSSC and Halal certification. Its brands page says it serves more than 15 countries, without naming them, and invites distributors and retailers to partner with it.

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Vertika is a Syrian brand of hot and cold powdered beverages belonging to Golden Quality Group, according to its Gulfood 2026 exhibitor page, which gives its address as the main road in Maaraba, Rural Damascus. Its website says the company aims to be one of the best producers of hot and cold drink powders in the Middle East under the motto 'local industry... global flavour', and lists sales agents in Aleppo, Hama, Daraa, the coast, Sweida and Hasakah. Products shown on its website include the Café Vertika range of 100% pure instant coffee, 'Morning Mate' 3-in-1 coffee mix, cappuccino in caramel, vanilla and hazelnut flavours, mocha and hot chocolate; 'Bun Vertika' Arabic coffee with and without cardamom; sahlab drink; vitamin C fortified fruit drink powders in orange, mango, strawberry, pineapple and berry flavours, in boxes of 12 sachets and single-serve sticks; and canned fruit drinks (cocktail and guava). The Gulfood listing adds cocoa drink, iced coffee and natural fruit juices. The company states that it is certified to ISO 9001:2015 for quality management and ISO 22000:2018 for food safety, that its in-house R&D department develops new formulas and flavours, and that it exports to markets across the MENA region, Africa and Europe, working with distributors and wholesalers.

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Tala is the brand of Omar & Mouhja Karkour Food Processing Co., which was established under Investment Law No. 10 of 1991 and started production in May 1994 with a capital of 77.5 million Syrian pounds. Its complex lies in Ashrafiyat Sahnaya at the Al-Bardeh junction, 6 km south of Damascus, on a 10,000 m² site with production halls, cold stores, warehouses and administration. The company produces tomato paste in 22–24%, 24–26% and 28–30% concentrations and ketchup; canned vegetables (green peas, peas and carrots, green beans, artichoke hearts, grape leaves, mixed vegetables) and ready dishes such as okra in tomato sauce and yalanji stuffed vine leaves; fruit compotes (apricot, cherry, peach, pear, fruit salad); jams (apricot, strawberry, cherry, fig, rose, bitter orange); mushrooms and truffles; hummus with tahini, eggplant mutabbal, foul medames, broad beans and chickpeas; pickles; plus green and black olives, pomegranate molasses, sweet corn, hot pepper paste, halawa and qamar al-din apricot paste, in cans and glass jars from 70 g to 5 kg. The company states that its lines are fully automated from washing and grading to cooking and canning, that quality control runs 24 hours a day with an incubation period and testing in its own laboratory, and that its jams contain more than 50% fruit with no added flavourings, colourings or preservatives. Its Gulfood 2026 exhibitor profile describes it as a closed joint-stock company with over thirty years of experience that also makes apple cider vinegar, rose water and natural concentrated juices, and manufactures and packs customer orders in various sizes.

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Zeno Food Industries presents itself as a leading producer and exporter of Syrian olive oil and table olives, founded in 1992 and trading under the Zeno Olive Oil brand. It says it controls every stage of production, from gentle picking to proper cold pressing with the latest methods while keeping the distinctive taste of Syrian olives, and that its olives are processed in one of the most modern facilities in Syria with filling, pasteurisation and sanitisation lines. The oil range covers extra virgin olive oil (acidity max 0.8°, peroxide max 16 meq O2/kg) and virgin olive oil (acidity max 1.5°), plus pure/refined olive oil, refined pomace olive oil and lampante oil for refining, packed in round and Marasca glass bottles from 250 ml to 3 L, PET bottles from 165 ml to 5 L, tins up to 16 kg, 200 kg steel drums, 20-ton flexitanks or bulk in tankers. Table olives include whole green and black, natural green cracked, pitted, sliced and salad olives, and olives stuffed with carrot, red pepper, garlic, almond or lemon peel, from the Sorani, Qaisi, Nibali, Zayti and Jlett varieties, processed Greek style (water and salt) or Spanish style. The company says it is known for quality, competitive prices, prompt shipment and long-term commitment. Olives are offered in easy-open tins, glass jars, PET tubs, 8 and 10 kg buckets, A10 tins and 150–160 kg drums, graded from Giants to Superior.

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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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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.

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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Oman• Muscat

A'Saffa Foods SAOG was established in 2001 and is the largest fully integrated poultry and food processing project in the Sultanate of Oman. Its farms cover 50 square kilometres in Thumrait, Dhofar Governorate, where its plant produces fresh and frozen chicken. Its Muscat plant makes processed products under the A'Saffa, Khayrat and Taybat brands, such as franks, burgers, nuggets and fillets. It exports frozen chicken to the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Yemen.

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Al-Attar, based in the Damascus Free Zone, states that it was established in 1990 and describes itself as "the first founder of the herbal pharmaceutical industries in the Arab world", developing its products in scientific cooperation with institutions, centres and research laboratories specialised in medicinal herbs and plants, under medical and pharmaceutical staff; its founder and general manager is Mr. Qudsi Al-Attar. At Gulfood 2026 it exhibited as "Alattar & Alshami" together with the Al Shami coffee brand, whose coffee expertise it dates back to 1924. The Alattar range covers green tea (plain and with lemon, mint, honey, cinnamon & ginger, pomegranate, plus Japanese green tea) and Ceylon tea; single herbs such as aniseed, mint, sage, lemon verbena, cumin, cumin & lemon, hibiscus, ginger, wild thyme, cinnamon, ginseng and chamomile; Zhourat Shamia (plain and with cinnamon) and Zhourat Lebnania flower teas; mountain honey in 250 g and 500 g jars; and specialised medicinal herbal mixtures. Al Shami supplies selected whole Arabic coffee beans, roasted in-house. The company states that its laboratory uses GC and HPLC chromatography to select plants with the highest content of active substances, checks them for microbial and insect contamination, pesticide residues and toxic metals, and compares them against the USP, BP and PDR references, and that it follows World Health Organization requirements. It markets its products in Syria, the Arab world and internationally under the Al-Attar name, and has exhibited at Gulfood Dubai, the Morocco international fair and Food Africa in Egypt.

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Al Durra says its roots go back to the 1940s with a single product, qamar al-din apricot paste, and that it was established as a food manufacturer in 1979, when Durra was registered as a global trademark. The company opened its Syrian factory in 1985 (Hazeh, Rif Dimashq), a Jordanian plant in 2003 (Al-Hassan Industrial Estate, Irbid) and its first Egyptian plant in 2011 (10th of Ramadan City); its head office is in Amman, and it states that it runs 10 factories in 3 countries. The range covers canned foods (hummus with tahini, eggplant dip, foul medames in Syrian, Lebanese, Sudanese, Alexandrian and chili styles, cooked chickpeas, broad beans, stuffed grape leaves with rice, makdous), jams and fruit spreads (orange, black mulberry, fig, fig with walnut, strawberry, from 430 g up to 15 kg) and halva, pickles (cucumber, eggplant, Iraqi Najaf mixed pickles, amba, mixed pickles), double-concentrated tomato paste, ketchup and crushed hot pepper, spice and seasoning mixes, red za'atar and semolina, tamarind, jallab and pomegranate syrups, and imported lines such as tuna, sardines, sweet corn and peas. The company states that its products reach more than 85 countries on 5 continents and over 500,000 stores, and that it farms over 90% of its produce. It names Europe, Canada, Australia, the United States and the Arab countries as its main markets, and publishes ISO 9001, ISO 22000 (TÜV Austria) and Halal certificates for its Jordanian plant.