The Tamimi Group, sometimes called the al-Tamimi group, is a Saudi Arabian business house with activities ranging from supermarket chains, hotels, oilfield services & supplies, road construction, power generation to bus transportation and trucking.
Founded in 1953 by the late Ali Tamimi, the company is presently owned and managed by his heirs.
Beginning as a major parts supplier to oil giant Saudi Aramco, the Tamimi Group has several joint ventures, with companies as diverse as General Electric and Safeway. Its commercial division represents Halliburton, Exide, Red Wing, and Firestone. Its international division is active in Kuwait, the UAE, and Iraq providing catering, maintenance and other support services.
To outline all aspect of the TAMIMI GROUP involvement in summary Will not fully compliment the diverse nature of its activities. Therefore, This has been generalized with special emphasis on the construction sector, Which is its pioneer business. A brief background of its humble beginnings, Along with immediately related companies or divisions as they are referred to, is given below.
TAMIMI GROUP was established in 1953,by the late founder Chairman, Sheikh Ali A.Tamimi, to carry out Pipeline Construction, General Construction and General construction and related works. During the intervening years, TAMIMI GOUP has expanded into many other fields of operation that has led to its present status as a wide spectrum construction, Contracting ,commercial and manufacturing Group of Companies.
in 1986 The group reorganized and streamlined its operations into more efficient and productive mechanism. The organization known today as the TAMIMI GROUP represents half a Century of development and evolution which has changed the face of Saudi Arabia.
Keenly aware of the Kingdoms growing need for trained nationals, the Group actively seeks, recruits, trains and shapes the careers of Saudis in line With the governments Saudization program and prepare them to continue building this great country. Every year ,Saudi students, from three principal educational grades are invited to join the the group for three principal educational grades are invited to join the group for their summer vacations who get invaluable first hand experience from one of their countries most successful and diversified groups. while some will aspire to join the group to start their careers, others will use their gained experience to form their own enterprises.
TAMIMI GROUP today harnesses the very broad range of skills and talents of over 9000 people of some 28 different nationalities, distributed throughout several dozen companies engaged in highly diversified activities.
The following pages introduce the more prominent of these entities, and the chart below is designed to guide the reader as he enters the world of TAMIMI.
The TAMIMI GROUP, which consists of some 30 companies or divisions, Is wholly owned Saudi Arabian entity, with its head office in Damam and regional offices in all major cities of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as well as in Bahrain ,Qatar ,Kuwait and UAE.
The highly diversified Group is one of the leading organizations in the kingdom with such varying activities as:
Pipeline &Electro mechanical construction Thrustboring construction Transportation Catering &life support services Operations &Maintenance Supermarkets Real Estate Commercial and Industrial trading Chemical and Oilfield Chemicals manufacturing Power generation manufacturing Technical and logistical Support Services Electrical Transmission Line Construction Corrosion inhibition Tape Manufacturing Tire Retreading Insulation Fabrication Hotel operations Laundry operations Integrated Unified instrumentation&Safety Control systems Among many others,TAMIMI GROUP has joint Venture partnership with :
General Electric, USA (3 Joint ventures: MEELSA, MEPCO, SESCO) ITT Federal Services international corporation, USA Arabian Electrical Transmission Line Construction Co.Ltd., (AETCON) polish Oil &Gas Company (State owned) Silvertech International Plc.,UK In addition ,the group represents principals such as:
General electric, USA. Haliliburton engineering services Firestone tires Red wing international U.S.A. Exide batteries Chesterton international U.S.A Silvertech Middle East FZCO,U.A.E.
SUPERMARKET OPERATIONS
TAMIMI FOOD DIVISION
TAMIMI MARKETS/ SAFEWAY is the pioneer of the modern super market concept in Saudi Arabia, launching its first branch in 1979 and continues to be a major force in highly competitive market at present it has 11 stores in eastern province and Riyadh and is planning to open 2 stores in Jeddah.
Wholly owned by the AL TAMIMI family it carries largest range of branded food and non food products supported by local suppliers and its own international import department. The operation is the exclusively agent for SAFEWAY U.S and U.K. brand products.
TAMIMI MARKETS /SAFEWAY operates a 100,000 sq ft ware housing supporting its fleet of ambient and refrigerated transport in order to supply its central and eastern province branches, supported and controlled by a state of the art SAP computer system.
TAMIMI MARKETS / Safeway's retail philosophy is to supply its customer base with the widest choice of product of the highest and freshest quality at the fairest price. this will continue to be our philosophy as we proceed with our planned expansion program.
**Note that it is different from the Al-Tamimi group, an Egyptian company whose website is at altamimi-group.com.