Joud Mixed Pickles & Stuffed Eggplants

distributor• Saudi Arabia• Member since 2015

Food Sources (Food Sources Trading Co.) is a Saudi family-owned company headquartered in Riyadh. It states that it was founded in Riyadh in 2015 with a vision of bringing authentic Mediterranean flavours to the Kingdom, and that it specialises in supplying fresh food and deli items to key accounts, restaurants, catering companies and grocery stores across Saudi Arabia. Its stated mission is to provide high-quality products at competitive prices to hotels, restaurants and food refrigeration outlets. According to its published timeline, the company added cheeses and pickles to its olive range in 2017, opened a Jeddah distribution centre in 2019 as its second facility to serve the Western region, passed 200 hotel and restaurant partners in 2021, launched an online ordering portal in 2023, and says it now serves more than 500 establishments across the Kingdom. Its contact page lists locations in Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, Tabuk, Medina, Khamis Mushait and Qassim, and the company cites temperature-controlled warehousing and a last-mile fleet that maintain the cold chain, a named account manager for every client, flexible order quantities and a maximum delivery time of 48 hours. The company states that it sources directly from Greece, Turkey and Morocco, and that its range covers olives, cheeses, dairy, pickles, labneh and jams, with more than 600 products. Its brand partners shown on the site are: Eltaieb, an Egyptian dairy maker whose listed products include feta, white cheese, double-cream cheese, cottage cheese, natural cream and Labneh Altayib; Laziza, Eltaieb's value label; Joud, a Saudi olives, pickles and jam brand whose listed items include Greek Kalamata olives, whole green Picholine olives, mixed pickles, stuffed eggplants and strawberry, apricot, fig and berry jams; Muratbey, a Turkish cheese brand; Wexford Creamery from Ireland; and the Saudi brand Sahtain. The company states that all its products are SFDA-approved and Halal-certified, that its documentation team handles import clearance, and that its sourcing team visits suppliers to verify quality standards. It also presents activities in marketing, distribution and logistics, catering, wellness products, refrigeration solutions, restaurant-chain supply and support for food manufacturers.