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Algeria• Annaba

CGS LaBelle is a subsidiary of the Algerian food group Groupe LaBelle, established on 18 February 1991 and based in Annaba. The group's site lists the subsidiary's activity as margarine manufacturing and pressing and filtering vegetable oils. The group states that the Annaba plant receives crude oils by ship, with a steel pipeline linking the port to the plant's storage tanks, which hold 5,500 tons. The plant has an oil refining workshop and a workshop blowing 5-litre PET bottles, and its packed product is oil in 5 L PET bottles. Groupe LaBelle has more than 10 subsidiaries in the food sector and sells sunflower oil under the ROZA brand and margarine under the LaBelle brand. The group's site lists FSSC 22000, Halal and ISO 14001 certification at group level.

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Algeria• Béjaïa

Cevital Agro-Industrie is a subsidiary of the Algerian Cevital group, founded in 1998 inside the port of Béjaïa. The company states it is the leading agro-industrial group in Algeria, with 5 production sites and more than 3,900 employees. It began with the launch of Elio table oil in 1998, followed by margarine, sugar, juices and other lines. The company states it operates the largest crude-oil refinery, with a capacity of 2,100 tons per day (about 655,000 tons per year), and sells refined soybean, rapeseed and sunflower oils in bulk by 20-ton tanker trucks, alongside bottled oils under the Fleurial and Elio brands. Its site lists the start of oilseed crushing in 2023, with an announced unit of 11,000 tons per day for soybean, rapeseed and sunflower seeds. The company lists ISO 9001, ISO 22000, FSSC 22000 and ISO 45001 certification for its refined oil and has an export department that takes enquiries through a form on its website.

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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.

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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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Saudi Arabia• Yanbu

The Malaysian Alami Group established Arab Malaysian Vegetable Oil Products Co. Ltd. (Zeyut) in Saudi Arabia in 2007. The company states that it operates two integrated complexes for refining, processing, manufacturing and packing vegetable oils and fats in Yanbu: one in the Royal Commission Light Industrial Area and one at King Fahd Industrial Port. Its range covers RBD palm olein, sunflower, corn and soybean oils, blended oils, NoveLin oil, RBD palm oil and palm stearin, plus non-hydrogenated vegetable ghee, shortening, margarine and specialty fats. It states ISO 9001:2008, ISO 22000:2005 and HACCP certification and also packs under clients' private labels. The group owns sister companies for metal and plastic packaging and for transport, delivering Zeyut products to customers in Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States and neighbouring countries. The head office is in Jeddah.

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Almanar Trading Company, based in Idlib, Syria, states that its activity began in 1993 and that over the years it built the ALMANAR brand in local and international markets. It is part of OGARETCO GROUP (Ugarit Group of Companies), which has established companies in Saudi Arabia (Jeddah), the UAE (Dubai), Turkey (Mersin), Germany (Hamburg) and Sudan (Omdurman); the group's website cites 3 factories, more than 200 employees and more than 12 branches. The company is known for manufacturing and trading olive oil under the ALMANAR and Ugarit brands, in tins from 175 ml to 16 kg, plastic bottles from 500 ml to 5 L and glass bottles of 500 ml and 1 L, and for ALMANAR dried figs (10 kg bulk, 1 kg display packs, fig strings, trays and round packs of 300 to 750 g). The range also covers mahlab and spices (black seed, cumin, anise, turmeric, cardamom, saffron and more), dried fruits (raisins, apricots, qamar al-din apricot paste), pulses (red, yellow, green and black lentils, fava beans, chickpeas, mung beans), nuts (pistachios, walnuts, almonds, cashews, hazelnuts, pine nuts) and Brazilian coffee. The company says its olives are collected from old olive trees, pressed and tested with modern technology and packed to international standards, and that its figs are naturally dried, washed and sterilised before packing. The group's website cites an annual volume of more than 50,000 tons; the group exhibited at Gulfood Dubai in 2020 and Almanar Trading Company exhibited at Gulfood 2026.

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Turkey• Bornova, İzmir

The company states that its story began in 1938 when Anthony Micaleff started olive oil production in İzmir, and that it was incorporated in 1945 as Ticaret ve Sanayi Kontuvarı T.A.Ş. It describes Kristal as Türkiye's first branded olive oil and the first to export branded, packaged olive oil. Besides olive oil, the company produces vegetable oils such as sunflower and corn oil, and states that it exports olive oil to more than 35 countries. It has been an affiliate of Arkas Holding since a 2007 partnership, set up an olive oil company in Valencia, Spain, in 2018 and joined the TURQUALITY programme in 2021. Its factory is in Bornova, İzmir, with another plant in Ayvalık, and its laboratory has been recognised by the International Olive Council since 2014. It lists BRCGS, ISO 22000, ISO 9001, FDA, FSMA, Kosher, Halal and organic certifications.

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Wadi Alamin Company states that it was founded in 1987 and specialises in spices, dried fruits, oils and nuts, presenting its goods under the Alamin logo. The Gulfood 2026 exhibitor directory lists the company as "AL Amin Co" among the Syrian exhibitors with an address in Ariha, Idlib governorate, while its own website publishes a contact address in Akdeniz, Mersin (Türkiye) and a Turkish phone number. The sample range shown on its website covers five groups: dried fruits (dried apricots, golden raisins, sun-dried raisins), herbs (thyme, sage, dried rose), nuts and seeds (in-shell pistachios, hazelnut kernels, roasted hazelnuts, yellow roasted chickpeas, red watermelon seeds), spices (sumac, sesame) and Alamin-branded olive oil, which the company shows in a 1-litre glass bottle and in tins. The company states that it supplies the UAE, Saudi Arabian and Turkish markets and that it holds HACCP certification, ISO certifications for quality, food safety, environmental and occupational health and safety management systems, and Halal certification. Buyers can request samples through its website; the company invited visitors to its stand at Gulfood Dubai 2024 and exhibited again at Gulfood 2026.

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Al Raky for Food Industries states that it was founded in 1951 in Damascus by the late Kamel Zakaria Durgham, is headquartered in Rural Damascus, and opened a branch in Turkey in 1983. Its catalogue says it owns a 15,000 m² factory in Damascus and a factory in Hatay, Turkey, and that it is led by General Manager Mhd Zakaria Durgham and his sons Yahia and Mhd Eid. Its website lists more than 40 products in 12 categories: first-press virgin olive oil in glass, tin, PET and jerrycan packs from 175 ml to 10 litres; green and black olives (Aleppo, Salkini, Daghma, sliced, stuffed, olive salad); apricot, strawberry, Damascene mulberry, cherry, fig and rose jams; pickles (spiced cucumber, wild cucumber, mixed vegetables); makdous in oil; tomato paste; pomegranate molasses and sauce; white and apple vinegar; vine leaves and yalanji; hummus with tahini and tahini; orange blossom and rose water; plus sweet corn, mushrooms, okra, artichokes and hot red pepper. The company's catalogue states that its products are exported to all Arab countries, Africa, Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia. It offers wholesale and private label, and exhibited at Gulfood 2026 in Dubai. No quality certifications are stated on its website.

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Al-Akkad Company for Industry and Trade owns the Syrian brand Sedi Hisham and is based in Al-Adliyah, Rural Damascus, according to the quality certificates published on its website, which now also uses the name 'Sedi Hisham Company for Industry and Trade'. The company states that it owns most of its supply chain, from raw materials through manufacturing and packing to distribution, and that its selected grains are packed on modern machines untouched by hand. Its range covers first cold-pressed virgin olive oil (250 ml up to 16-litre tins) and sunflower oil, vegetable ghee, sheep ghee and cow ghee, plain and pistachio tahini halva and tahini, tomato paste and ketchup, jams, olives of many types (Tephahi, Salkeni, Kalamata-style, sliced, stuffed), makdous, vine leaves, artichokes and pickles, alongside pulses and grains (lentils, chickpeas, fava and other beans, bulgur, freekeh, semolina, kishk), rice, sugar, pasta, tea, zaatar and a wide range of spices and blends, pomegranate molasses, vinegar, orange blossom and rose water, tuna, corn, mushrooms, falafel mix and dried molokhia. Its website displays ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 22000:2018 certificates issued in 2020 by InterCert (Germany) for 'production, trading and filling of olive oil and foodstuff products'. The company states that its products reach Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Germany, Austria, the UK, Malaysia and Australia through more than 30 partners and agents, and it exhibited at Gulfood 2026 in Dubai.

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Solo Bro is a Syrian family business based in Damascus. Its website says it specialises in packing, packaging and trading spices, and that it started more than three decades ago, growing into a processor of spices, aromatic seeds and herbs. According to the site, the company grinds, blends, packs and stores its spices with up-to-date technology so that the flavour reaches consumers fresh. The range is organised in four lines: bags of single spices, whole and ground (cumin, coriander, black and white pepper, cinnamon, turmeric, paprika, cardamom, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, sumac, mahaleb, black seed), herbs (rosemary, basil, marjoram, mint, bay leaf) and nuts (almonds, cashews, walnuts, coconut); boxes of seasoning blends (kafta, kibbeh, shawarma, kabsa, mandi, biryani, fajita, curry, pizza, fish) and coating mixes (broasted chicken, escalope, nuggets, fried fish, falafel, bechamel), plus breadcrumbs; shaker jars covering fifteen spices and herbs; and dried foods such as molokhia, okra and zaatar. The company states that it supplies the food service industry with a complete line of whole, re-cleaned and ground spices, aromatic seeds and herbs, and that it has a wide distribution network and a large customer base. Its website does not name export markets or specific certifications.

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Egypt

An Egyptian company specializing in the processing and packaging of olives and olive oil, with experience dating back to the 1970s. It owns its own factories and olive farms, giving it full control over its production chain, and operates both locally and internationally.