Founded1998
HeadquartersKouba, Algeria
FoundersIssad Rebrab
IndustryFood & Beverage, Manufacturing, Retail

About

Cevital is an Algerian family-owned industrial group headquartered in Kouba, Algeria, founded by Issad Rebrab. It describes itself as Algeria's first private group to diversify across sectors, and its activities span agri-food and mass retail, electronics and home appliances, steel, flat glass, industrial construction, automotive, services and media.

Founding date: sources differ. Wikipedia lists 1998, the year the food company Cevital SPA was created; Forbes Middle East gives 1971; the group's own timeline starts in 1971 with a stake in a metal-construction company. The group states about 18,000 employees and 26 subsidiaries on three continents, and puts revenue at about US$4 billion (undated). Forbes Middle East ranked it 32nd in its Top 100 Arab Family Businesses 2021, with Issad Rebrab as chairperson.

Its food unit includes an oil refinery and a sugar refinery rated at 2 million tonnes a year, plus margarine, mineral water and soft drinks. Abroad it acquired the French window systems maker OXXO and Spain's ALAS in 2013, and the French appliance maker Brandt and the Piombino steel works in Italy in 2014.

Key figures

About 18,000EmployeesCompany statement, undated
26 on three continentsSubsidiariesCompany statement
About US$4 billionRevenueCompany statement, undatedUS$3.26 billion in 2013 per Wikipedia (citing Jeune Afrique)
2 million tonnes a yearSugar refinery capacityForbes ME 2021
Rank 32Forbes ME Top 100 Arab Family Businesses2021

Figures are as published by the sources listed on this page. Where a figure comes from the company itself we have not audited it.

Scope of operations

  • Agri-food: oil and sugar refining, margarine, mineral water, soft drinks
  • Mass retail (Numidis: Uno, Unocity) and logistics (Numilog)
  • Steel and metal construction, flat glass (Mediterranean Float Glass)
  • Electronics and home appliances (Samha, Brandt)
  • Automotive (Hyundai Motor Algeria, COGETP), real estate, media

Founders and key people

Issad Rebrab

Not Verified

Founder and Chairman of the Board, Cevital · Cevital

Timeline

  1. 1971Starts in metal construction with a stake in SOCOMEG (company timeline)
  2. 1975Creates Profilor (steel)
  3. 1988Creates Metal Sider
  4. 1991Takes over IBM activities in Algeria and creates the daily Liberte (company timeline)
  5. 1997Creates Hyundai Motor Algeria
  6. 1998Creates Cevital SPA, the food company
  7. 2006Creates Numidis (retail), Immobis (real estate) and Future Media; acquires COJEK
  8. 2007Creates Mediterranean Float Glass; starts Samha (Samsung home appliances)
  9. 2008Creates Cevital Minerals and Cevital MTP; COGETP starts as Volvo CE and SDLG dealer
  10. 2011Creates Sierra Cevital with Sonae Sierra (shopping centres)
  11. 2013Acquires OXXO (France) and ALAS (Spain)
  12. 2014Acquires Brandt (France) and the Piombino steel works (Italy)