Thursday, March 26, 2009

Day 5 - Dammam and Jeddah

Visited the Saudi Aramco Exhibition this morning to learn how oil extraction really works! Then we visited our new friend Abdulmanem Al-fadhul's Thobe store, called Lomar Thome (www.Lomarthobe.com). He's creating cutting edge Thobe's for Saudi Arabia.

Followed up that visit with a trip to see the chairman of The Olayan Group. The Olayan group is the exclusive distributor of coke products in the Kingdom, as well as a distributer of ritz, xerox, burger king, kit kat, and industrial batteries/equipment in the Middle East. It seems like these guys own the rights to nearly all the popular American consumer brands! One story... they bought the franchise for Texas based Church's Chicken, but changed the name to Texas Chicken because the name Church's was too controversial.

1 comment:

  1. I have not seen a camel! How you getting around without them?

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