Al Sam Corporation Ltd is one of the largest business conglomerates in Ethiopia with an increasingly diverse portfolio ranging from import-export to manufactory and real estate development. A holding company, AL-SAM Corporation conducts business through its fully-owned subsidiaries and also by having substantial equities in other companies. As a parent company, Al Sam allocates resources among its subsidiaries and manages their capital structures. Al Sam was born in 1992 in the shape of a small kiosk in Merkato, the largest open-air market in Africa. Over the last 25 years, that kiosk has grown to one of the largest companies in Ethiopia and has business partnerships with some of the world’s most dependable brands including SC Johnson & Son, Colgate Palmolive, Energizer Incorporated, Haco Industrial (Bic pen), Orkide Industrial, Beko Electronics, and Hayate Hygenic Products, to mention but a few.

Today, with an annual turn over of …..billion, Al Sam Corporation Ltd is involved in import and export trading, assembling of electronic appliances, manufacturing, transit service, real estate development, and BANKING? (investment on financial institutions).

The corporation has three subsidiaries: AL-SAM Plc. is involved in the import and distribution of fast moving consumer goods, export of coffee and sesame, administration of office complexes, assembling of electronic appliances and real estate development. Lina Plc. is engaged in import trading, transit service, manufacturing of C.G.I and EGA roof sheets and real estate development; SACUR Plc.- is primarily engaged in real estate development. AL-SAM Corporation also has a substantial share on Repi Soap and Detergent Share Company and Repi Wilmar Industrial Share Company, which is under construction. The Corporation headquartered is in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.