Alrifai

Al Rifai is a Lebanese snack food company headquartered in Beirut, Lebanon. The company has 40 percent nuts market share in Lebanon and is the largest snacking nut retailer in the Middle East. Since 1996, Al Rifai has focused on 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 neighborhoods. 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.