The Saudi Marketing Company (SAMCO) is a joint-stock company listed on the Saudi Stock Exchange 'Saudi Tadawul' under the name 'Farm Superstores' with the symbol (4006). Its shares are traded on the main market in the food retail sector with International Securities Identification Number (ISIN) (SA13HG51UJ13) It was established in 1978 and was listed on the stock exchange in February 2014. Its capital is SAR450 million. It is one of the companies specializing in commerce, retail, and import.
The company's headquarters are located in Dammam City, in the Eastern Province. It manages a chain of ninety supermarkets distributed across the eastern, central, western, southern, and northern regions, in addition to seventeen smaller stores that serve upscale residential communities
Farm Superstores offers a wide variety of products and items (more than sixty thousand different items), including fresh produce, other consumer goods, household items, and imported items from various parts of the world (Asia, Africa, Europe, North and South America).
The company has significant efforts within its social responsibility, offering many initiatives, such as: enabling citizens with special needs to obtain suitable job opportunities in an encouraging environment; contracting with charitable organizations ('Leave the Change to Them'), which aims to encourage donations to associations with the account differences when shopping at the company's stores; donating the remaining halalas to the Charitable Society for the Care and Rehabilitation of the Disabled in the Eastern Province, the Charitable Society for Memorizing the Holy Quran in al-Jubayl Governorate, the Charitable Health Society for Patient Care in Riyadh Governorate, the National Charity Foundation for Home Health Care in Jeddah and Jazan, al-Ber Charity Society in al-Kharj, the Cooperative Office for Call and Guidance and Community Awareness in Ar'ar, the Association of the Disabled in al-Ahsa, the Charitable Society for the Care and Rehabilitation of the Disabled in the Eastern Province 'Efaa' - al-Khafji and an-Nu'ayriyyah branches, and the Quran Memorization Association 'Yatloon' in Yanbu Industrial City.
In 2018, the company signed a partnership agreement with Manafith Saudia to support charitable work. Under this agreement, the Farm Superstores chain of branches was added to the Manafith Saudia network, making these branches an authorized commercial outlet for food and consumer goods for charities in the Kingdom. Beneficiaries from these charities can purchase their food and consumer needs from Farm Superstores branches using the Manafith Saudia system.
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