Alrifai

Al Rifai is a Lebanese multinational nut-retailing company headquartered in Beirut, Lebanon. It is the largest nut-retailing chain in the Middle East and the company with the biggest market share in Lebanon. Since 1996, Al Rifai redirected towards international expansion while its Middle East business was franchised to Kuwait-based Kout Food Group.

History

Rifai was founded in Beirut in 1948 as a home-based operation supplying roasted nuts and coffee to the local neighborhood. In addition to its retail brand, Rifai wholesales nuts under other brands. In 1996 Al Homaizi Foodstuff Co. of Kuwait acquired the rights to manufacture and sell Al Rifai products in the MENA region. In 2021, Merit, the holding company of the Saadé family, acquired 100 percent ownership of Rifai.