Kingdom Holding Company

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name = Kingdom Holding Company
شركة المملكة القابضة
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type = Holding Company
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foundation = 1980
location_city = Kingdom Centre, Riyadh
location_country = KSA
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key_people = HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Chairman & CEO
Shadi Sanbar, CFO
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industry = Diversified Investments
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homepage = [http://www.kingdom.com.sa www.kingdom.com.sa]
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Kingdom Holding Company (Arabic: شركة المملكة القابضة) is a public holding company, incorporated in Saudi Arabia, and is the largest company in Saudi Arabia. [cite news |title=Top 100 Saudi Companies |author= |publisher="arabnews.com" |date=2007-10-27 |url=http://www.arabnews.com/supplements/Top100/top100_2006NEW.html |accessdate=2008-09-17] It is controlled by Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz, and is headquartered in the city of Riyadh. The company is publicly listed in the Saudi Stock Exchange but only 5% of the shares are public, the rest is privately owned with the majority stakeholder, Prince Alwaleed holding 93.5% shares. [cite news |title=Kingdom Holding Company |author= |publisher="zawya.com" |date=2007-07-31 |url=http://www.zawya.com/cm/profile.cfm/cid120673/ |accessdate=2008-09-17]

The company describes itself as a diversified investment company, whose interests include banking, real estate, telecommunications, broadcasting and media, entertainment, hospitality, computers and electronics, agriculture, restaurants, upscale fashion, retailing, supermarkets, tourism, travel and automotive manufacturing.

Its international investments include (or have included)
*Amazon
*AOL/Time Warner
*Apple Computer
*Canary Wharf
*Citigroup
*Coca Cola
*Compaq
*Disneyland Paris
*eBay
*Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts
*Fairmont Hotels & Resorts
*Ford
*Hotel George V, Paris
*Hewlett-Packard
*Gillette (now a subsidiary of Procter & Gamble)
*McDonald's
*Motorola
*Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts
*News Corporation
*PepsiCo
*Procter & Gamble
*The Walt Disney Company
*LBCI Lebanese Broadcasting Company International
*Danagas
*SAMBA, Saudi American Bank
*Kingdom Hotels Investments Public company listed on Dubai International Financial Exchange

The company is known for hiring the first Saudi female pilot ever. It is also the owner of the Kingdom Center.

In July 2005, Kingdom announced a joint venture with HSBC to invest in growth companies in Sub-Saharan Africa. [cite news |title=HSBC announces joint venture in Africa |author= |publisher="HSBC" |date=2005-07-05 |url=http://www.hsbc.com/1/2/newsroom/news/news-archive-2005/hsbc-announces-joint-venture-in-africa |accessdate=2008-09-17]

References

External links

* [http://www.kingdom.net Kingdom Holding Company]
* [http://blogs.aol.fr/infoauteur/Prince-Alwaleed/ Lettre ouverte sur la sécurité des 2 lieux saints et blog du Pince Al-Waleed]