- CEO
- Hamed Abdelsalam Hassanein Seif
- Sector
- Process industries
- Industry
- Agricultural commodities/Milling
- Address
- Cairo Egypt
- IPO Date
- Aug 1, 1996
- Business
- Misr Oils & Soap Co. S.A.E. is an Egypt-based public shareholding company engaged in the manufacturing, processing, refining, packaging, and distribution of edible vegetable oils, shortening, soaps, detergents, industrial chemicals, and animal feed products. The company operates across multiple core product segments, offering a systematic portfolio that includes refined edible oils such as soybean oil, cottonseed oil, sunflower oil, and blended vegetable cooking oils; vegetable ghee, shortening, and hydrogenated fats; personal care and hygiene products, including beauty soaps, toilet soaps, laundry bar soaps, medicated soaps, and glycerin bars; household cleaning solutions, including liquid dishwashing detergents, multi-surface cleaners, and washing powders; animal nutrition products, including soybean meal, cottonseed cake, and formulated animal feeds; and industrial chemicals and byproducts, including distilled fatty acids, stearic acid, crude glycerin, and sodium silicate. Founded in 1953 and headquartered in Cairo, Egypt, the company operates several major manufacturing plants, oil pressing facilities, and soap factories located across the Nile Delta region, including industrial complexes in Mansoura, Zagazig, Damietta, and Sandoub. Misr Oils & Soap Co. functions as an operating subsidiary of the state-owned Holding Company for Food Industries under the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade, supplying products to commercial retail markets, industrial food and chemical manufacturers, wholesale distributors, and the national commodity subsidy program across Egypt. In recent developments, the company has advanced comprehensive operational restructuring and facility modernization programs across its primary refining and extraction complexes to boost domestic edible oil processing capacity, enhance supply chain resilience, and support national food security objectives. In addition, the company has implemented technical upgrades to automated packaging lines, expanded high-margin consumer detergent and specialty soap offerings, and pursued capital and debt optimization initiatives under parent-holding supervision to improve operational efficiency and cost management.