Hawa Chicken

Hawa Chicken was founded in 1957 when Dr. Jean El Hawa set up its first farm in Safra. It is an integrated Lebanese poultry and egg company that runs farms, two feed mills in Anfeh and Safra, and two hatcheries that hatch 700,000 chicks a week. Slaughtering, cutting and freezing take place at its modern plant in Anfeh, North Lebanon, and a further-processing unit set up in 1997 makes marinated, coated and ready-to-eat lines. The company describes itself as Lebanon's largest poultry producer, with plant production of 34 million broilers and 160 million eggs a year. It was the first Lebanese poultry company to earn FSSC 22000 certification.