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Egypt

An Egyptian company specializing in charcoal manufacturing and export. It owns a plant for natural wood charcoal and a technological plant for compressed charcoal made from coconut shells. Based in New Damietta, it has been operating in this field for over thirty years as one of Egypt's leading charcoal exporters.

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UAE• Ras Al Khaimah

Bawabt Liwa Group is a UAE food company headquartered in Ras Al Khaimah, established in 2015 under the Khalifa Fund enterprise support scheme. It produces and distributes food products under its flagship brand LIWAGATE. The LIWAGATE brand covers more than 250 products across four categories: spices, pulses, nuts and dried fruits. The group also manages the Yeddoh and Maharaja spice collections and distributes the European seasoning brands Prymat and Kucharek. Through its online store Liwa Mart (liwamart.ae) the group sells its products and groceries across the UAE, supported by strategically located warehouses and its own delivery network, and it also handles B2B enquiries. The company is ISO 22000:2018 and HACCP certified.

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Lebanon• Beirut

Café Najjar began in 1957 as a small artisanal roaster in Beirut and is now Najjar Professional Solutions, with three divisions: coffee, nuts and food. It describes itself as the leading coffee producer in the Middle East and North Africa, with a 67% share of the Lebanese market. It runs a 15,000 m² flagship factory in Lebanon and two more factories in Cyprus and Saudi Arabia. The coffee division offers Lebanese coffee (Café Najjar and the patented Najjar Raqwa system) and Najjar Gia and Il Gustino espresso. It also offers specialty coffee, American Cup filter coffee, Najjar Instant and a 100% Arabica cold brew concentrate, along with coffee machines and training through the Najjar Training Academy. The nuts division, under the Krikita brand, sells traditional Lebanese and flavored nut mixes, single-nut lines, seeds and raw nuts, roasted with advanced techniques. The food division, under the Byte brand, supplies frozen Lebanese mezza and meals, frozen pizzas, frozen sweets and ready-to-eat items for food service, retail and convenience stores. NPS exports to more than 45 countries across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, and Australia and New Zealand. It also offers private-label development for coffee, nuts and food.

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Turkey• Osmaniye

The business was founded in 1990 in Osmaniye by Ali Korkmaz. After years of production, wholesale and marketing, Korkmazoğulları Fıstıkçılık Sanayi ve Ticaret Ltd. Şti. was incorporated in 2023 and continues to operate from its Osmaniye facilities. The company processes Osmaniye peanuts in a hygienic facility using modern machinery. The peanuts go through cracking, sieving, sorting, calibration and bagging. They reach consumers packed or in sacks through nut shops and markets, and the company also supplies nut processors and many other food facilities. The range includes shelled Osmaniye peanut kernels in several calibres: jumbo (70/75–85/90 pcs per 100 g), large (95/100–100/105), medium (105/110–120/135), undersize (140/160–190/210) and pastry grade (210/250–250/300). It also offers in-shell peanuts in calibres from 28/32 to 45/50 pcs per 100 g, white and roasted blanched peanuts, and prinç kernels in brown and white types. The company holds a food registration and production permits and produces in line with the Turkish Food Codex.

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Turkey• Izmir

Can Kardeşler Kuruyemiş was founded in İzmir in 1978 and pairs nearly half a century of experience with modern production technology. At its facilities in the Atatürk Organized Industrial Zone, Çiğli, the company produces nuts, dried fruit, coffee, Turkish delight (lokum), spices, pickle juice and chocolate. The nut range includes Antep pistachios, hazelnuts, almonds, walnuts, cashews, pumpkin seeds, roasted chickpeas (leblebi) and mixed nuts. Dried fruits include figs, apricots, raisins, mulberries and plums. It also offers Turkish coffee, filter coffee and espresso, lokum, chocolate and spreads, herbal teas, honey, pekmez, halva and spices. Products reach consumers through more than 60 stores across Türkiye, an online shop and a corporate sales network that supplies gift boxes with volume discounts. The company says its export experience has also given it a place in world markets.

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Turkey• Adana

Uğur Kuruyemiş is a family company founded in 1982 by Muzaffer Uluk and his brother under their father's guidance, and it took its current form over decades of work. Today Muzaffer Uluk runs it with his four sons; the youngest, Muhammed Mustafa Uluk, has handled international business since 2016. The head office is in the Atikop wholesalers' market in Seyhan, Adana, and the company has a branch in the Mersin Free Zone. The company specialises in nuts and coffee. Its range includes Antep pistachios in shell and shelled, walnuts in shell and walnut kernels, almond kernels and in-shell almonds, and sunflower seeds, as well as coffee.

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Tunisia• Le Bardo, Tunis

Arjoun is a Tunisian brand of Les Douceurs des Dattes, a company based in Le Bardo, Tunis. It specialises in turning Tunisian dates into food products and fine confectionery, combining traditional recipes with modern food science. The range covers a wide set of date derivatives: date syrup and date jam, date paste and date powder, plus ready-to-eat products such as chocolate-coated dates, date energy bars, date biscuits and date balls. In fine confectionery, Arjoun develops date-based chocolate truffles, energy balls, revisited French pastries and gourmet assortments, under its signature idea "Douceurs des Dattes" (date sweets). The company serves government institutions, commercial distributors, retailers and consumers in both the domestic and export markets, and exhibited at Gulfood 2026 in Dubai.

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Turkey• Gümüşhane

Kral Pestil (Büyükbayraktar Gıda) was founded in 1974 in Gümüşhane and describes itself as the first company to take traditional pestil (fruit leather) and köme production to an industrial scale. It has grown from a family business into a sector leader with 126 employees, operating in the Organised Industrial Zone with 20,000 m² of enclosed space, 10,000 m² of it production area, and packing and shipping up to 15,000 boxes a day. The range includes rolled pestil (rulo), folded pestil (muska), honey pestil with no added sugar, paper-thin sheet pestil (yaprak) and köme, walnuts dipped repeatedly in mulberry syrup. It also produces lokum (Turkish delight) with dried fruits and natural fruit aromas, baklava, mulberry, carob and grape molasses, rosehip and cornelian cherry marmalades, hazelnut and peanut spreads and tahini, and natural drinks such as basil water and rosehip nectar. Kral Pestil holds ISO 9001, ISO 22000 and Halal certification and runs showrooms in Trabzon, Istanbul, Gümüşhane and Bodrum.

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Turkey• Ordu

Burak Tarım is a Turkish hazelnut processing factory in Ünye, Ordu. Its journey began in 1980; in 2010 it acquired a 5,000 m² facility with 25 million kg of annual processing capacity, followed by a 2021 project for a 10,000 m² plant with 60 million kg per year. It has ranked 329th among Turkey's top 500 industrial enterprises. The range covers in-shell and salted in-shell hazelnuts, natural skin-on kernels, roasted and double-roasted kernels, roasted halves, roasted pieces and roasted hazelnut flour, as well as blanched kernels, blanched pieces, blanched hazelnut flour and sliced hazelnuts. Quality control runs from raw material purchasing to final shipment, supported by an equipped laboratory for physical, chemical, microbiological and toxin analyses, under ISO 9001 and ISO 22000 (HACCP) systems. The company exports to 50 countries.

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Turkey• Denizli

Bayçelik Tarım Ürünleri is a Turkish company based in Çivril, Denizli, specialising in the processing and sale of sunflower seeds. It sources seeds directly from farmers after harvest and prepares them for roasting, with an annual processing capacity of 15,000 tonnes. The company supplies calibrated sunflower seeds in 6, 6.5, 7, 7.5 and 8 mm sizes to hectolitre-weight and count standards, with custom combinations on request, as well as white and black below-sieve seeds, Denizli and Çivril sunflower seeds, and pumpkin seeds. Its services include cleaning, grading, colour sorting to remove off-colour seeds, packing in 10–50 kg bags to customer specification, and storage in silos equipped with moisture meters and routine checks.

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Turkey• Kahramanmaraş

Aybaklar Tarım Ürünleri began operating in 1999 in Elbistan, Kahramanmaraş, and specialises in snack sunflower seeds and popcorn corn. Its facility covers 23,000 m² of open and 4,000 m² of covered space with 2 production lines, 17 silos, 29,000 tonnes of storage capacity and annual output of about 45,000 tonnes; it also has an office in Mersin. The company supplies bulk white and black sunflower seeds in several calibres (6, 6.5 and 7 mm in double, medium and below-sieve grades) and 40 kg bags, as well as 9 mm round and 8.5 mm pointed pumpkin seeds. Under the Aycin brand it packs popcorn corn in 500 g, 700 g and 900 g packs and 20 kg kraft bags. It also sells hybrid seeds for oil-type and confection sunflowers, corn and popcorn corn. Aybaklar holds BRCGS certification and takes part in the TURQUALITY programme.

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Turkey• Sakarya

Adalılar Kuruyemiş is a Turkish nuts and dried-snacks company founded in 1992 in Sakarya. It started with a factory sales store and in 2012 moved into modern production facilities of 12,000 m² in Sakarya-Adapazarı, packing around 800,000 packs per day. The company sells mainly under the Tanem and Freezo brands. Its range covers black and white sunflower seeds in several sizes (Midi, Maxi Quadro, Large Quadro, Super Quadro) and flavours such as lemon and chicken, as well as nuts including Antep pistachios, hazelnut kernels, peanuts, pumpkin seeds and almonds. A doypack dried-fruit line includes dried apricots, sun-dried apricots, dried figs, raisins and dried plums, alongside walnut kernels. Adalılar exports to more than 30 countries across Africa, the Balkans, Europe and the Middle East, runs 9 retail stores in Turkey, and holds IFS Food, ISO 9001, ISO 22000 and ISO 10002 certification.