Activities:

Al-Ahmar Group is a well known holding entity owning numerous companies in various fields of business activities. The chairman of the group is Shaikh Hamid Abdullah Al-Ahmar. Al-Ahmar Group’s activities cover the following fields:

1. Supply tenders for government requirements and private sector through representation of reputable international companies;

2. Computer hard and software sales, service and networking;

3. Elevators, sales and services;

4. Import of military, police and airforce outgear;

5. Crude oil and natural gas, sales and exploration;

6. Power generation, transmission lines and equipment supplies;

7. International exhibition organisation in Yemen al-ahmar group;

8. Import, food materials, building materials, garments, medicines, medical equipments, spare parts, etc;

9. Export sea products, vegetables, marble, stones etc;

10. Communication ( project and equipment sales );

11. Owning and operating public cellular mobile network global system gsm;

12. Tourism, travel and airline representations;

13. Printing and publishing;

14. Banking and international banking relations;

15. Representation and joint venture of construction contracting companies for public and private sector contracts;

16. Cement industry;

17. Eye glasses, contact lenses, medical equipments, and hospital emplementation;

18. International franchising for high class garments, perfumes cosmetics, fast food, etc;

19. Investment.

Al-Ahmar group (additional companies):

• Saba Islamic Bank – Al-Ahmar Group Holds 15% of its shares and Dubai Islamic Bank 15%;
• Apollo International Exhibitions;
• Apollo Travel Co. Ltd. – representatives of Emirates Airlines as well as of Nippon Airways. The company also represents BCD Travels, U.K. in Yemen;
• Arabian Horizons Travel and Tours – Holds offices in NYC and Detroit. Arabian Horizons is the approved agent for Lufthansa, KLM and Emirates;
• Petroleum Gas-Technology –Works with Italian company Lavato;
• Yemen Property for Investment Co.;
• Horizons Printing and Publishing;
• Yemen Company for Cement Production and Marketing;
• The Allied Medical Company Ltd. (AMECOM);
• The National Contracting Company;
• Yemen Payphone Company (YPC) – in partnership with Transjordan for Communication Services Co. Ltd., ALO – operators of payphones in Jordan and OTE Hellenic Telecommunications Org. S.A. Co. and Hellascom Telecommunications Company. Hellascom owns 15%, OTE 10%, Transjordan Telecom 25% and Al-Ahmar Group 5% of YPC;
• Al-Ahmar group is the agent of Marconi Communications Plc. in Yemen. Marconi is the communication arm of General Electric Communication.