Abdullah Al-Othaim Markets Company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the wholesale and retail trade of food supplies and other products in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The company imports, exports, wholesales, and retails food products, wheat, rice, fish, meat, dairy products, ghee, olive, halawa, pasta, and soft drinks, as well as fruits, vegetables, and other agricultural products; livestock and household items; and ready-made clothes, sport clothes, jewelry, sewing tools, bags, leather products, decorations, dropped ceilings, and vehicles spare parts. It also establishes, operates, manages, and maintains supermarkets, commercial complexes, bakeries, and cafes; and provides cooked and uncooked catering, import and export, marketing, and tour and travel services, as well as labor services in the areas of domestic employment, and employment in the public and private sectors. In addition, the company manages and maintains training and educational, entertaining, and sports centers; offers computer services for application systems and databases; establishes agriculture projects; and undertakes general contracting, electrical and electronic, and reinforcing and carpentry works, as well as construction, maintenance, demolition, and restoration works primarily for highways, roads, streets, and bridges. Further, it is involved in the vegetables and fodder cultivation, livestock, poultry breeding, and general trading businesses; acquisition of lands to construct buildings for lease or sale; and contracting of buildings activity. The company was formerly known as Abdullah Saleh Al-Othaim Markets Company and changed its name to Abdullah Al-Othaim Markets Company in September 2007. Abdullah Al-Othaim Markets Company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Riyadh, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
