BIN MAHFOUZ

The Bin Mahfouz family has been a major participant in Saudi Arabian business affairs for many years and is today one of the country's major investors both at home and abroad... The business interests of the late Khalid Bin Mahfouz and his immediate family can be characterised as a broad-based investment group. Its principal areas of investment are the Middle East, Asia and Europe, with additional interests in the Far East. The group is privately owned and headquartered in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia... With its comprehensive investment portfolio - both quoted and private equity, real estate and trading agencies - the group is one of Saudi Arabia's leading investors. A number of its portfolio companies are leaders in fields such as desalination engineering and plant construction, car rentals, general insurance and banking.