The Hayel Saeed Anam & Co. (Arabic: هائل سعيد أنعم وشركاه) is a multi-billion dollar conglomerate active in the Middle East, North Africa, the West Africa, Europe, and South East Asia. The group is owned and managed by the Saeed Anam family. The group today has grown to own over 92 companies in various regions, including Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Singapore ,Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt, Yemen, Kenya, Senegal, and Ethiopia.[2]
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| Company type | Conglomerate |
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| Industry | Cement, Agricultural Production and Processing, Wheat Flour manufacturing, Sugar refining, Fast Consumer Goods manufacturing, Dairy Products, Oil & Ghee, Tobacco, Plastic, Mineral Water, Trading, Construction, Oil & Mining, Real Estate development, Insurance, and Banking, Travel and Tourism, Hotels Biscuits, Confectionery Logistics |
| Founded | 1938 |
| Founder | Hayel Saeed Anam |
| Headquarters | UAE، Dubai |
Number of locations | Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Yemen, and Kenya |
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Number of employees | 35,000 |
| Website | www |
History
editThe history of the group dates back to 1938, when Hayel Saeed Anam and his brothers founded a retail store in Aden, Yemen. Five years later, they founded an import and export company based in Aden. In 1950, they expanded their business in Northern Yemen through opening stores in Mocha and Taiz. In 1952, the company was incorporated as Hayel Saeed Anam and Partners.[3]
The group extended their business across several regions. In 1977, they launched the starting point for investment overseas in Europe by setting up the Group's first trade and industrial company in the UK. Following the death of the founder Hayel Saeed Anam in 1990, the group continued his legacy by launching many different initiatives across different regions. In 1992, the group launched an Establishment of Cooking Oil and Gee in Egypt. In 1999, they launched one of the biggest plants of palm oil refining in Indonesia. In 2006, the group established The General Trading of Agro commodities Midstar FZE in the UAE.
Criticism
editIn 2018, Greenpeace claimed to have documented large scale deforestation in areas, which have been given an extra level of legal protection from deforestation and are controlled by subsidiaries of the Hayel Saeed Anam Group (Arma Foods and Pacific Oils and Fats). Following these accusations, Unilever suspended placement of any new orders from HSA's Group subsidiaries until the allegations have been satisfactorily addressed by them. According to the RSPO, Greenpeace's claim of complaint has been managed and resolved as of 2022.
Reaction to the COVID-19 outbreak
editThe International Initiative on COVID-19 in Yemen (IICY) was founded, amongst others, by the charity arm of the HSA Group with the goal to improve the limited testing capabilities for the SARS-CoV-2 in Yemen. The IICY said in a statement that the first 34-tonne shipment contained 49,000 virus collection kits, 20,000 rapid test kits, five centrifuges and equipment that would enable 85,000 tests, and 24,000 COVID-19 nucleic acid test kits.[4] The air-borne shipment arrived in Yemen on 19 June 2020.[5]
Working with UN and its agencies, IICY partners have donated money to fund the salaries of frontline medical workers and delivered much-needed medical equipment including PPE which has been distributed to hospitals and laboratories across Yemen.
References
edit- ^ "About us". HSA Group. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
- ^ "HSAGroup". Hayel Saeed Anam. Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ "History". HSA Group.
- ^ Lisa Barrington (21 April 2020). "Companies give Yemen tens of thousands of corona virus test kits to ease shortage". Reuters. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
- ^ Saeed Al-batati (20 June 2020). "Deaths in Aden drop by 43 percent, officials say". Arab News. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
External links
edit- Official website
- "Businessman Ahmed Hail Saeed Ana'am dies in Taiz". Yemen Times. 9 July 2012. Archived from the original on 9 November 2012.
- "New Cement Plant Planned". Middle East Economic Digest. 9 January 2004. Archived from the original on 29 June 2013.