About us

Nestlé’s regional office for the Middle East and North Africa is based in Dubai South, and the company operates across the Emirates with offices in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Al-Ain, Fujairah, and Ras AlKhaimah. Nestlé works with more than 850 customers in the UAE and more than 1,700 retail outlets in the country, including supermarkets and pharmacies. The company locally produces confectionary, dairy, culinary, and coffee, at two food and beverages factories in Dubai and operates two water manufacturing sites, one in Dubai and one in Abu Dhabi. Nestlé employs more than 1,300 people from different parts of the world, while providing indirect employment to hundreds more.

Dubai is also home to the Nestlé Quality Assurance Center, a hub for microbiological and nutritional analysis of food, water, and environment samples serving the Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey. The Center is certified ISO 17025:2005 and accredited by the Emirates International Accreditation Center (EIAC) for all analytical Methods.

Nestlé was the first corporation to establish direct sales and distribution operations in Saudi Arabia in 2011, following more than 55 years of successful presence in the country. Currently, the company employs over 5,000 people. As part of a Memorandum of Agreement signed with the Saudi Ministry of Investment in 2022, Nestlé plans to invest SAR 7 billion over the coming years.

Nestlé has four offices across Saudi Arabia; located in Jeddah, Riyadh, Dammam, and Abha, and operates seven water factories across the Kingdom. The company plans to open its first food factory in Jeddah by 2025. Additionally, Nestlé manufactures dairy, coffee, and confectionery products in collaboration with local manufacturers. It works with thousands of suppliers and retail outlets, including hypermarkets, supermarkets, wholesalers, groceries, pharmacies, and foodservice providers.

Kuwait has been home to full Nestlé operations since 1996, following the presence of its products in the country since the 1950s. Nestlé currently employs 100 people and provides indirect full-time employment to 250 more. The operation benefits from a 4,000m² high-aisle warehousing facility for optimal distribution.

Nestlé established direct operations in Qatar in 2005, following over 30 years of Nestlé product availability in the country. The company today employs nearly 60 talents in the country. A Nestlé Waters factory has also been the leading bottled-water producer and distributor in Qatar since 1999, offering two brands: The local Al Manhal and the international Nestlé Pure Life brand. The factory caters to residential, commercial, and retail outlets, and has more than 40,000 customers. Nestlé works with more than 100 suppliers in Qatar and nearly 80 retail customers in the country covering more than 1,600 outlets, including hypermarkets/supermarkets, wholesale, pharmacies, and groceries.

Nestlé first established direct operations in Bahrain in 2004. The company employs more than 30 people in the Kingdom. Nestlé works with more than 13 customers in Bahrain and more than 1,300 retail customers, including supermarkets and pharmacies through distributors.

Nestlé first established direct operations in Oman in 2002. The company employs more than 120 people in the Sultanate, 75% of whom are Omani nationals. Nestlé works with more than 85 suppliers in Oman and more than 1,600 retail customers in the country, including supermarkets and pharmacies.

For more than 100 years, Nestlé has been present in the homes of Egyptian families. The company wide portfolio includes trusted and loved brands such as Nescafé, Nestlé Pure Life, Nido, Nesquik, Maggi, Kit Kat, Cerelac, and many others. Nestlé employs over 3000 people and provides more than 8000 indirect employments in the country. Nestlé operates three factories in Egypt, one water factory, and two food factories producing local beloved coffee brand Bonjorno, in addition to a wide range of products that includes coffee, infant nutrition, dairy, and food.

Nestlé’s heritage in Morocco goes back to 1927, when the first import operations began in the Kingdom. The company today employs more than 420 people at its office food factory in the country and provides indirect employment to 7,500 more. Nestlé has invested more than MAD 630 million in Morocco in the last 10 years and works with more than 70 partner entities to distribute its products across 85,000 retail outlets, grocery shops, pharmacies, and the food service industry. The Nestlé portfolio in Morocco encompasses innovative products in a wide range of categories, with key brands including Nespresso, Nescafé, Nesquik, Chocapic, Cheerios, Gold Corn Flakes, Fitness, NAN, Nido, Nativa, and PreNan.

Nestlé products had been available to consumers in Algeria for more than 50 years before the company established its first direct operation in the country in 2005 with the opening of Nestlé Waters Algeria SPA, in the Blida province’s Sidi El Kébir. Since 2010, Nestlé also operates a local food and beverage factory manufacturing dairy and coffee products.

Nestlé employs 400 people at its office and two factories in Algeria and provides indirect employment to 300 more people; and works with 16 partner entities to distribute its products across 50,000 retail outlets, grocery shops, pharmacies, and the food service industry.  

Nestlé first established direct operations in Jordan in 1995, providing consumers in cities and rural areas with quality food and beverages, and high quality drinking water. The company employs more than 550 local talents in the Hashemite Kingdom. Nestlé also owns and operates a water factory in Al Husseiniya, which produces trusted brands Ghadeer and Nestlé Pure Life, and where the region’s first fully Nestlé-owned large-scale solar power plant was inaugurated. The company works with more than 270 suppliers in Jordan and has more than 6,300 retail customers in the country, including supermarkets and pharmacies.

The first Nestlé import operation in Lebanon goes back to 1934. Nearly 90 years later, the company today employs more than 400 local talents in the country, operates two water factories and locally manufactures food products through collaborations with reputable Lebanese partners. Nestlé works with more than 300 suppliers in Lebanon and has more than 21,000 customers in the country, including wholesalers, supermarkets, groceries, pharmacies, and foodservices.

Since 1997, Nestlé has been among the few multinationals carrying out full operations in the West Bank with main office in Bethlehem and additional facilities in Nablus and Ramallah. Nestlé employs a staff of nearly 30 and collaborates with distributors in Gaza.

Nestlé Iraq commenced operations in 2005 and established a representative office in Kurdistan Erbil in 2015 to manage its business activities. Nestlé works with two distributors and serves approximately 10,000 customers, offerings diverse products in the Dairy, Infant Nutrition, Coffee, Confectionery, Food, and Breakfast Cereals categories. Nestlé Iraq's team consists of 35 dedicated individuals serving local consumers in the country.

Since the 1940s, Nestlé products have been part of the lives of Syrian people. Nearly 60 employees continue to do everything possible to provide foods and beverages in Syria to meet the needs of consumers including dairy, infant nutrition, culinary, and coffee mixes. Nestlé has one office in Damascus, with 3 distribution centers across reachable cities and 32 distributors covering more than 12,000 outlets and 10,000 pharmacies. The company also manufactures Culinary, Dairy and Coffee mixes in the country.

During the long years of the war, Nestlé priority remains the safety and security of its employees and ensuring the supply of essential food and beverage.

Nestlé has a long history in Yemen, dating back to 1955, since our products were distributed in the country. Nestlé has a branch office in Yemen, employing 13 individuals and provding indirect employment to 700 more working in sales and distribution of Nestlé products across the country. The company is committed to provding much needed food and beverages to meet the needs of the local consumers. Through strong local partnership distributes a range of products across an extensive network of over 11,000 retail outlets, grocery shops, pharmacies, and wholesalers.

Nestlé also operates in Tunisia, Sudan and Libya though distributors, providing local consumers with variety of products including coffee, dairy, breakfast cereals, and infant nutrition.