Sector: Agro-food

Country: Egypt

Website: www.wadigroup.com

Year of investment: 2009

In December 2009, EuroMena Limited Partnership acquired a minority stake in Wadi Holdings, based in Egypt. The Company is the region’s leading agri-business group with a portfolio of eleven companies that cover several divisions related to the agriculture industry, including poultry, food processing, feed manufacturing and trading and glass manufacturing.

Profile:
Wadi Holdings is one of the leading agro-food companies based in Egypt, producing 300,000 day-old-chicks per day with an unmatched know-how. The Company operates in diverse and complementary business units including poultry, food processing, feed/soybean manufacturing and trading, as well as stevedoring. Additionally, Wadi holds a large real estate portfolio of c. 4,400 hectares of high quality land, located in 5 sites. Wadi currently has a total of 2,980 employees and comprises 15 subsidiaries based in Egypt and one in Sudan.