Kuwait Flour Mills & Bakeries Company

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Kuwait Flour Mills & Bakeries Company
TypeState owned Company
IndustryFood Manufacturing
Founded1961
Headquarters
Shuwaikh
,
Kuwait
Key people
 (CEO).[1]
Number of employees
4,000
Websitewww.kuwaitflourmills.com

Kuwait Flour Mills & Bakeries Company (KFMB) is a state owned group headquartered in Industrial Shuwaikh, Kuwait. KFMB specializes in production and supplying of products like biscuits, flour, bread, buns, and vegetable oils etc. in Kuwait. The Company also produces macaroni, animal feed. KFMB shoulders a sizeable role in Kuwait’s economy by generating $1.3 billion in annual sales revenues and a net profit of $123 million in 2016[2]

KFMB has eight automatic Arabic bakeries, accompanied by Sabhan Bakery that is panoramic in European bread production. It provides automated material handling and storage services through its principal holdings (KFMB has a total storage capacity of 375,000 tons at the port) and is in charge of providing flour and other grains to the country. KFMB factories are considered as one of the largest (3,000 tons of daily milling capacity), state-of-the-art, and acculturated in the Persian Gulf and Middle East areas.[3] KFMB employs almost 4000 employees.[4]

History[]

Soon after the state's independence, the Kuwaiti government quickly commenced its program of industrialization, creating a number of new companies under its control. One of these was the Kuwait Flour Mills Company. Incorporated in 1961 the company focused on specialized food products and familiarized them to the market[5]

In 1988, ‘Kuwait Flour Mills Company’ was merged with ‘Kuwait Bakeries Company’ and attained its new identity as “Kuwait Flour Mills and Bakeries Company”. KFMB evoked expanding its facilities in order to develop fully integrated operations. As such, the company constructed its own silos and wheat-discharging facilities at Shuwaikh port to offload ships directly into its silos.

In the following years, KFMB installed automatic milling systems integrated with packaging as well. The production of the company was augmented to include a full range of flours, including specialized flours used in the production of Arabic bread types, as well as processed flours used in European bread. In 1969, the company launched a factory for the production of Macaroni and in 1970 a factory for the production of Biscuits. Launching a vegetable oil factory in 1976 was another feather in the cap, which was the first of its nature in the Persian Gulf region.

Further, in 1978, the company took ambitious steps to build nine automatic bakeries, geographically situated in Kuwait along with the Central Sabhan Bakery, considered as a sign of industrial milestone in Persian Gulf area at that point in time.

Again in 1994, KFMB took over the government-run ‘Kuwait Supply Company’. A company that was commended to serve the citizens by providing and delivering food supply and construction materials. These products were subsidized by the government in accordance with the policies and resolutions of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

In compliance with the company’s mission to achieve food security, the company established the Animal Feed Plant in 1996 for the production of animal feed enriched with nutritional values to serve the livestock that is one of the integral elements for nutrition in the country.

Awards[]

In the Gulfood Innovation Award, held at Gulfood, Dubai, from 26 February to 2 March 2017, Kuwait Flour Mills and Bakeries Company won the ‘Best Health and Wellness Product Award’[6] for Gluten Free Products and Biscuit (Totally bran).

Subsidiaries and branches[]

References[]

  1. ^ "BORN AND BREAD". Thebusinessyear.
  2. ^ "Kuwait's milling giant". WG.
  3. ^ "57 YEARS Partner in Taste".
  4. ^ "KFMB – Kuwait's milling giant". June 16, 2018.
  5. ^ "Kuwait Flour Mills & Bakeries Co. S.A.K." (PDF). kuwait-toplist.
  6. ^ "Winners of the Gulfood Innovation Awards 2017 announced". Foodbev. 2017-02-27.

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