Abdullah Al-Othaim Markets Company is a

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-based joint stock company, currently operating in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Its main activities are food wholesaling, grocery stores, and malls. the company operated 183 stores: - 143 supermarkets and

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s, and 13 wholesale outlets in Saudi Arabia, and 31 stores in Egypt. By 2008, Abdullah Al-Othaim Markets had completed the transformation from a private company to a

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ranked the company third in the

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for retail executive management in 2016. It also ranked the company in the top 100 companies in

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, and the top 200 companies in the

. In 2020, Forbes Middle-East listed the company was one of the 100 largest public companies in the Middle-East.{{Cite web, date=2020-06-11, title=Abdullah Al-Othaim markets among 100 largest companies in the Middle-East in 2020, url=https://arab.news/83dbv, access-date=2020-09-08, website=Arab News, language=en

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