Délices Processed Cheese Portions

Manufacturer• Algeria• Member since 1993

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.