Food & beverage directory 2026

    Food & Beverage Companies in Oman

    Omani food manufacture is a coast-and-interior split under a young single inspector: the Food Safety and Quality Center, created by Royal Decree 24/2019 and moved under the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resources by Royal Decree 92/2020, now holds the national food-safety file that mills in Muttrah, poultry in Barka, tuna in the fisheries companies and dairy in Al Sunaynah all have to clear.

    A’Saffa’s broiler halls, Oman Flour Mills’ staple bags, Areej’s Rusayl oils, Mazoon Dairy’s Dhahirah milk, Tanuf water, Oman Refreshment Company’s Pepsi bottling, Oman Fisheries’ A’Safani tuna and Salalah’s mill and poultry names are the plants BioNixus walks when a brief asks who actually packs inside the Sultanate. Oman Food Investment Holding sits behind several of those assets as a state food-security owner. Khimji Ramdas still reaches wilayat grocers and HORECA — it appears here as a trade house, not as a factory. Nestlé and Almarai arrive mostly as hub-served books. This page stays on halls, boats-to-cans, mills and FSQC. Detergents and a full trolley live on the Oman FMCG directory. A Dubai questionnaire pasted onto Muscat will miss both the interior dairy and the tuna export licence.

    Updated September 2026 · Food Safety and Quality Center (FSQC), Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resources — national food-safety file (Royal Decrees 24/2019 and 92/2020) as of September 2026 · 17 named accounts

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    RD 24/2019

    Royal Decree that established the Food Safety and Quality Center as the national food-control body

    RD 92/2020

    Decree that moved FSQC under the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resources

    MSM plants

    A’Saffa Foods, Oman Flour Mills and Oman Fisheries report as listed food manufacturers

    Al Sunaynah

    Mazoon Dairy’s interior location — a different geography from Muscat Lulu

    Named accounts

    Top food and beverage manufacturers in Oman

    Public, well-known names BioNixus studies at account and SKU level. This is an editorial snapshot, not an endorsement or a market-share ranking. Cross-checked against Food Safety and Quality Center (FSQC), Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resources — national food-safety file (Royal Decrees 24/2019 and 92/2020) (as of 2026-09-05).
    #CompanyHQ
    01A’Saffa FoodsBarka
    02Oman Flour MillsMuttrah
    03Mazoon DairyAl Sunaynah
    04Oman Fisheries Company (A’Safani)Muscat
    05Areej Vegetable Oils & DerivativesRusayl
    06Oman Refreshment CompanyMuscat
    07Tanuf (National Mineral Water)Nizwa
    08Dhofar PoultrySalalah
    09Salalah MillsSalalah
    10Oman Food Investment Holding (OFIC)Muscat
    11National Biscuits and ConfectioneryRusayl
    12Coca-Cola Oman bottlingMuscat
    13Nestlé OmanMuscat
    14Unilever Food Solutions OmanMuscat
    15AlmaraiSaudi Arabia
    16Khimji Ramdas — foodservice and grocery reachMuscat
    17Food Safety and Quality Center (FSQC), MAFWRMuscat

    Primary research

    These are the food and beverage manufacturers we field with in Oman

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    How the market is structured

    FSQC file, mill door, wilayat kitchen

    A hall now registers foodstuffs and, for some categories, advertising with FSQC under the Food Safety Law and the 2021–2024 ministerial decisions that sit on top of it. Municipalities still walk restaurant floors; the Consumer Protection Authority still takes market complaints; FSQC is the national file that manufacturers actually budget against. After the stamp, flour and oils leave Muttrah and Rusayl toward industrial bakeries and toward wilayat grocers that a coastal hypermarket panel undersamples. A’Saffa birds leave Barka toward grocery freezers and toward catering. Mazoon milk travels a long cold chain from Dhahirah into Muscat hotels and into interior grocers. Tanuf water fights imported still lines in Nizwa as well as in Qurum. A’Safani tuna leaves fisheries plants toward export as well as toward local HORECA. Oman Refreshment and the Coca-Cola system sell fountain along the coast. Khimji often carries the case into a wilayat the brand team in Dubai has never visited. BioNixus names the FSQC status, the governorate and whether the next buyer is a bakery, a hotel or a grocer — and it will not add a laundry powder to that tag set.

    Local

    Barka poultry, Muttrah flour, Rusayl oils and biscuits, Dhahirah dairy, Nizwa water, Salalah mills and A’Safani tuna. Coast and interior are different plants, not one “Oman factory” row.

    • A’Saffa Foods
    • Oman Flour Mills
    • Mazoon Dairy
    • Oman Fisheries Company (A’Safani)
    • Areej Vegetable Oils & Derivatives
    • Oman Refreshment Company
    • Tanuf (National Mineral Water)
    • Dhofar Poultry
    • Salalah Mills
    • National Biscuits and Confectionery

    Multinational

    Coastal Coke halls, a hub-served Nestlé book and a chef-facing Unilever range. Most ride a UAE hub; account-level work has to start in-country, not from a Jebel Ali shipment report.

    • Coca-Cola Oman bottling
    • Nestlé Oman
    • Unilever Food Solutions Oman

    Regional

    Almarai’s ambient and frozen import sits beside Mazoon and A’Saffa. It is a competitor, not a substitute plant.

    • Almarai

    Distributors, HORECA & wholesale

    FSQC plus Khimji’s wilayat reach and hotel receiving on the coast. Lulu is the coastal hypermarket fact. It is not the interior.

    • Oman Food Investment Holding (OFIC)
    • Khimji Ramdas — foodservice and grocery reach
    • Food Safety and Quality Center (FSQC), MAFWR

    Market structure

    Vision 2040 language versus the receiving bay

    Oman Vision 2040 talks about food security. Listing committees sometimes repeat that language. Shoppers in a Nizwa grocer rarely do. BioNixus keeps the policy story in the background of a plant study and puts FSQC status, cold-chain hours from Al Sunaynah, and whether A’Saffa or an imported bird actually landed on the hotel dock in the foreground. A brief that wants a Vision slide can have one; a brief that wants tonnes has to walk the hall.

    What is moving

    What is moving food and beverage in Oman

    FSQC as a new single national file

    Royal Decrees 24/2019 and 92/2020 pulled food control into one centre under MAFWR. Launch timelines that still budget a scatter of municipality-only permissions are using a pre-2019 map.

    Interior dairy versus coastal grocery

    Mazoon’s Al Sunaynah hall is a Dhahirah fact. A Muscat Lulu sample will not tell you whether that milk won Nizwa or a hotel breakfast in Qurum.

    Tuna as an export manufacturer, not a souvenir

    A’Safani cans leave Oman Fisheries plants toward foreign buyers as well as toward local HORECA. A grocery-only brief will understate the hall.

    Poultry as a named national brand

    A’Saffa is the bird incoming GCC frozen has to beat in grocery and in catering. Dhofar Poultry is the southern twin a Muscat sample will skip.

    Khimji as a decision unit in the wilayats

    When coverage dies inland, the first call is often the trade house. Design questions that can survive that fact, or admit you only bought the coast.

    BioNixus fieldwork

    How BioNixus studies food and beverage manufacturers in Oman

    The accounts above are the ones our field teams and analysts work with. What a brand team typically commissions from us in Oman:
    • Barka A’Saffa shift interviews that separate grocery-freezer birds from catering contracts, then compare both with incoming GCC frozen.
    • Al Sunaynah Mazoon Dairy gate walks timed against the hours the cold chain actually takes to reach a Qurum hotel receiving bay.
    • Oman Fisheries / A’Safani conversations on export licences versus local HORECA cans, treating tuna as a manufacturer book.
    • Nizwa and interior grocer checks on Tanuf and Oman Flour Mills bags, scored against what a Muscat Lulu sample would have claimed.

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    Questions

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Which food and beverage manufacturers run halls inside Oman?

    A’Saffa, Oman Flour Mills, Mazoon Dairy, Oman Fisheries / A’Safani, Areej, Tanuf, Oman Refreshment, Dhofar Poultry, Salalah Mills, National Biscuits, OFIC as owner, the Coca-Cola bottler, plus FSQC. Khimji is the named trade house. Almarai and Nestlé are mostly incoming or hub-served.

    What is FSQC and why does a factory brief care?

    It is the national food-safety centre created in 2019 and placed under MAFWR in 2020. Product registration and some advertising permits sit there. A hall that has not completed the file cannot legally keep packing the SKU you think is listed.

    Is A’Safani a dairy?

    No. A’Safani is the tuna and seafood brand of Oman Fisheries Company. Mazoon Dairy is the interior milk plant. Do not merge them because the names sit near each other on a long list.

    How is this different from the Oman FMCG companies directory?

    That page includes home care and treats Khimji as a general-trade house in a trolley story. This page keeps mills, poultry, tuna, dairy, oils, water and bottling and uses Khimji only as the HORECA and wilayat carrier.

    What does BioNixus field among Omani food plants?

    Barka poultry and Muttrah mill walks; Al Sunaynah dairy-gate interviews timed against Muscat hotel receiving; A’Safani export-licence conversations; and Nizwa water and grocer checks that a coastal panel undersamples.

    Is the sequence of this Omani table a ranking by tonnes?

    It is not. Rows are the halls, the fisheries plant, the interior dairy and the FSQC desk we keep meeting. Order is not an output claim.

    Sources

    Data sources & methodology

    This directory aggregates publicly available company and channel facts — filings, brand sites, and BioNixus fieldwork in Oman. It is an editorial snapshot of the accounts we study, not a share ranking and not a substitute for NielsenIQ, IQVIA, or another syndicated feed.

    Primary register: Food Safety and Quality Center (FSQC), Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resources — national food-safety file (Royal Decrees 24/2019 and 92/2020), consulted 2026-09-05. Company classification (Local / MNC / Regional / distributors, horeca & wholesale) reflects ownership and role in Oman, not size.

    • Royal Decree 24/2019 establishing the Food Safety and Quality Center and Royal Decree 92/2020 transferring it to MAFWR; FSQC / MAFWR food-safety communications, 2024–2026
    • MSM issuer pages for A’Saffa Foods, Oman Flour Mills and Oman Fisheries Company
    • Company descriptions for Mazoon Dairy, Areej Vegetable Oils, Tanuf and Oman Refreshment Company
    • BioNixus Oman plant, wilayat and hotel-receiving fieldwork, 2023–2026

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