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O B EI K AN
Newsletter
issue 01 / NOVEMBER 2013
Keeping you up-to-date with the latest OBEIKAN news
Words from Marketing Director
Well, this is the first corporate newsletter. By today, you’ll be
aware of significant activities, developments, and achievements
accomplished by your colleagues. OIG employees have
exceeded 5,000 toll where constant communication and
engagement became desperately an explicit necessity. We’re
all proud of market leadership attained through teamwork
spirit, dedication and credibility. Our growth journey started
30 years ago from Riyadh then steadily blazed all over Saudi
Arabia. Moreover, we crossed the boarders and landed our
solutions and products at more than 75 countries energized
by strong brand equity.
It’s now the perfect platform to exchange success stories and
case studies to build up more experiences and raise the bar.
Ma moon Alsaudi
OIG
OIG Welcomed Algerian Minister of
Industry And The Algerian Embassy
Staff...
Obeikan MDF in Building a New
Production Plant... Page 03
Paper& Board
... Page 03
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Plastic
ORP- Best Practice and
implementation of Lean
Management
Liquid Packaging
... Page 04
Education
Opening of Obeikan knowledge
academy...
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ORP- Best Practice and
implementation of Lean Management
Beverage Innovation Award for
combidome, The bottle made of
cardboard from SIG Combibloc
Obeikan...
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Education
Frankfurt International Book Fair...
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OIG C o r p o r at e
News
01
OIG Welcomed Algerian Minister of Industry
And The Algerian Embassy Staff
02
Cross Selling Initiative - CSI is Gearing
Steadily Towards Sound Full Objectives
03
Q- Pulse Implementation at OIG subsidiaries
OIG Welcomed Algerian Minister of
Industry And The Algerian Embassy Staff
Obeikan Investment Group hosted
diplomatic delegation headed by
Algerian minister of industry Mr.
Sherif Rahmani, accompanied by His
Excellency the Algerian Ambassador
in Riyadh Mr. Abdul Wahab Derbal, and
members of the embassy.
Our CEO Eng. Abdullah Al- Obeikan
gave quick spectrum to the delegation
about OIG current diversified customer
base in Algeria and the products and
solutions we provide to food and
packaging industries. Moreover, he
illustrated OIG future plans to expand
in Algerian markets in particular and
entire North African countries.
During the discussions, both parties
exchanged views on the best practices
to facilitate any barriers to export
more products and reaching more
customers and prospects in Algeria.
The delegation also took a quick
plant tour at Obeikan paper industries
Accompanied by GM Mohamad
Mowkley. All were very impressed by
advanced technologies deployed for
qualitative and scalable production.
There are five OIG subsidiaries
currently export to Algeria such as: OPI
, Glass , IPS, OTF and Combibloc.
Cross Selling Initiative - CSI is Gearing Steadily
Towards Sound Full Objectives
Last week, CSI have concluded the training sessions of
businesses and products awareness among the CSI group
members; Plastic division, Paper and Board Division, SIGCBOB and Elopak.
With one training session in OKA and the other in Dubai, the
participants were able to learn much more about Obeikan
product portfolio and top customers, brilliant ideas were
shared to leverage the business using the group synergy
and expansion:
Qualifying the Obeikan shrink material on CBOB machines:
The idea will generate benefits for Film plant as well as
CBOB by selling more shrink to CBOB customers and get
easier commissioning for CBOB equipment at customers
end
Selling mixed products containers to CBOB customers
overseas: The idea is to use the logistics arm of CBOB
exporting to Africa and combine the stretch material
with CBOB material in same containers which will help
approaching new customers and reducing export shipping
cost
The team interaction was excellent among the group
requesting more events to come
Nader.nabil@obeikan.com.sa
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OIG C o r p o r at e News
Q- Pulse Implementation at OIG
subsidiaries
In order to maintain growth and
build on previous success, Obeikan
Investment Group identified
an electronic compliance
management system which
would act as framework and
infrastructure to support the
compliance management and
the automation of the quality
systems and processes across
all of the locations for better
standardisation and alignment.
Eng. Abdallah Obeikan CEO of
the group said, “This project
fits in with our plan to increase
automation at all levels for better
standardisation, visibility and
efficiency. This will not only help
in our growth of the business but
will bring employees the benefit
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of working on more useful and
proficient, value added tasks.’’
Under the direction of Rizwan
Haq Business Excellence Director,
Gael and its Q-Pulse solution
has allowed Obeikan to create
a clearly defined and scheduled
audit programme and associated
audit and auditee teams. With
its pre-prepared checklists and
scope of audits, it has quickened
the auditing process and provided
the capability to measure each
audit’s performance rating and
areas for improvement. The CA/PA
capability of Q-Pulse has been of
huge benefit and has encouraged
ownership and accountability of
actions that have arisen from the
auditing process. Through this,
target dates can be set providing
visibility of actions to their owners
while providing oversight to senior
management.
Rizwan Haq said: “Our Q-Pulse
system has provided Obeikan
Investment Group with improved
visibility throughout the entire
organisation and encouraged a
simple, efficient, common sense
approach. The solution provides
what we require from compliance
management,automation of quality
systems documents and processes,
standardisation, transparency and
accountability”.
Rizwan@obeikan.com.sa
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Pa p e r a n d B o a r d
Division News
01
Obeikan MDF in Building a New Production
Plant
02
OPI - Increasing Production Capacity
and Penetrating New Strategic Market
Obeikan MDF in Building a New Production Plant
As part of its strategic expansion,
Obeikan MDF has started building
a new production plant in AlziraSpain. Plant built area will be 34,000
square meter and will increase
production capacity by another 200
million packages per year.
Obeikan MDF - business unit of
Paper and board division- is one of
our strategic milestone in Europe
producing MDF boxes to serve
fresh and perishable fruits and
vegetable producers. They provide
laser cut solutions to more than
40 countries. Good luck to our
colleague Salvador and his entire
team.
www.obeikanmdf.com
smartines@obeikanmdf.com
OPI - Increasing Production
Capacity and Penetrating New
Strategic Market
OPI has invested 100 MSR to increase PM 1 capacity from
180 KT to 220 KT to enhance its cost position with the board
competitive environment. Moreover, OPI upgrade it’s coating
station with the utmost and recent technology development
called curtain coating to increase its quality position
Moreover, OPI start developing South African market in 2013 and will curve up in 2014. The move into South
Africa is driven by moving into stable market and reduce the exposure in the market where price is volatile
mowkley@obeikan.com.sa
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Rigid Plastic
Division News
01
ORP- Best Practice and Implementation
of Lean Management
ORP- Best Practice and Implementation of Lean Management
Four Principles consultants confirmed
that Obeikan Rigid Plastic - ORP
- business unit of plastic divisionhas done tremendous work over
the past 18 months and with the
operational improvements made are
fast becoming the biggest and the
best manufacturing facility in all OIG.
From total productive maintenance
- TPM perspective and the support
given by all employees involved
it is great to see that number of
breakdown hours has dropped
by approximately 50% in 2013 vs
2012.
Congratulations to our colleagues
in ORP
www.obeikan.com.sa/rigid-plastic
solami@obeikan.com.sa
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L i qu i d Pa c k a g i n g
Division News
01
Mr. Khaled Arafa General Manager
Obeikan ELOPAK
02
Beverage Innovation Award for
combidome
03
Elopak have successfully passed the
certification audit for ISO 14001:2004
04
IPS Participated in Saudi Agriculture
Exhibition 2013
Mr. Khaled Arafa General Manager Obeikan ELOPAK
Mr. Khaled Arafa has joined last November 06, 2013
as General Manager of Obeikan ELOPAK.
Khaled Arafa has a technical and packaging
background and almost 20 years experience with
multinational corporations such as P&G, PepsiCo and
Nestlé, and has worked in several countries in the
Middle East as well as in Europe.
He started his career with Procter and Gamble in
Egypt where he became eventually Operations and
Corporate Quality Assurance Group Manager. He then
joined PepsiCo as Operations Director for Frito-Lay
Arabian Peninsula, before moving to the regional
headquarters in Dubai as Regional Supply Chain
and Packaging Innovation Director. From there he
joined Nestlé in Germany as Head of Packaging for
the global Nestlé food division and his last position
before joining us was in the UAE as regional CEO/
General Manager for ARC international.
In ARC International, he had responsibility for
setting the strategy for the aggressive growth of the
company in the Middle East as well as business risk
diversification in addition
to driving business growth
in existing markets and
introducing the company’s
key brands in new territories
and in new channels.
Khaled’s professional
passions are industrial and
management excellence and
people and organizational
development.
Khaled will directly report
to Mr. Omran Obeikan
In Obeikan ELOPAK, he can be reached +966 4983392
extension no.55555
Please join me in welcoming Mr. Khaled to Obeikan
Investment Group Family and wish him a long and
successful career at Obeikan ELOPAK.
Beverage Innovation Award for combidome,The bottle made of
cardboard from SIG Combibloc Obeikan
September 2013. combidome, the
bottle made from cardboard from
SIG Combibloc Obeikan, has now
been honoured with the renowned
Beverage Innovation Award. The
jury of international experts was
convinced by the new carton,
which combines an unusual shape
with exceptional functionality.
The Beverage Innovation Award
recognises outstanding innovations
in the categories Beverages,
Brand and Business, Ingredients,
Packaging, Sustainability, and
Marketing and Communication.
Since 2003, the coveted prize has
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been awarded annually by FoodBev.
com. This year, 370 applications
were submitted by manufacturers
and suppliers in the beverage
and liquid food industry from 40
countries. Unusual appearance and
exceptional functionality makes
packaging a winner
www.sig.biz
mehanaz.ali@sig.biz
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L i qu i d Pa c k a g i n g
Division News
IPS Participated in Saudi Agriculture Exhibition 2013
Integrated Packaging Systems – IPS participated
in this show with a stand of size 21 sqm. The stand
was a tailored made stand and designed as per our
guidelines to showcase the company’s strength in
the Protein Division. To present the Protein Division,
we participated with our two Principals – LINCO &
LILDAL. We also promoted our Raw Material brand
INGREDIS.
It was a 4 day show starting from 15th to 18th
September, 2013 in the capital city Riyadh at Riyadh
International Convention & Exhibition Centre, RICEC.
Our stand witnessed a crowd of nearly 50 visitors,
out of which mostly were from Saudi Arabia and then
from countries like UAE, Oman, Yemen and Sudan, etc.
To conclude, we had a good stand with good exposure
and plan to go with a bigger stand in 2014.
Garima.nair@ipsdubai.com
After hard work and constant dedication, our colleagues in Obeikan Elopak
have successfully passed the certification audit for ISO 14001:2004
operates for ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.
Elopak Obeikan - business unit of liquid packaging division- produces
yearly more than 1.6 billion of gable top cartons with diversified cross
sections for filling fresh and short life dairy and juice products.
They also supply filling lines with multi speeds and capacities. Beside
satisfying the Saudi market, they export to more than 10 countries and
domain significant market share in MENA Region.
CONGRATULATIONS!!
www.elopak.com
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E du c at i o n
Division News
01
Opening of Obeikan Knowledge
Academy
02
Frankfurt International Book Fair
03
Sharjah Third International Book Fair
Opening of Obeikan Knowledge Academy
A state of the art knowledge academy building is now ready and functioning properly in full speed. Professional
classrooms, fully equipped workshops and professional meeting rooms and auditorium to welcome OIG
employees, customers and visitors. OKA - business unit of Obeikan education division- offers training and
academic solutions such as:
Training Courses: The Obeikan
Academy provides training in
many different formats including
classrooms courses and workshops,
eLearning, short videos. Some is
formal training, other parts are
designed for self-study. You can
choose eLearning and short videos
for self study.
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Talent Development Centers: To
provide Obeikan leaders with
information gained by proven
scientific tools to enable them
to make high quality Talent
Management decisions.
Assessments: A range of assessments
to help employees and managers
understand the existing skills and
gaps in skills.
Testing: When employees are
fully confident that they have
the required knowledge or
skills, they can demonstrate this
by completing an assessment.
Successful completion leads to
certification.
Accreditations: Some Programs
lead to accredited certification.
This allows the individual and
the business to demonstrate a
recognized level of competency.
tony.cooper@obeikan.com.sa
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Education Division News
Frankfurt International Book Fair
The sixty five cycle of the Frankfurt
International Book Fair obened in
the City of Frankfurt in Germany.
Among those attending the book fair
are the city Mayor, the International
Publishers Association Manager and
the book fair manager. International
and European multimedia will be
widely covering the fair activities.
The fair runs over a period of five
days, the first three are dedicated
for publishers meeting, commercial
agreements and signing contracts.
The last two days will be open for the
public participation.
Obeikan, publishing manager, Mr.
ALFraih, and Obeikan General
manager, Mr. David Pottinger will
represent the company on the
opening day, they will take part in its
cultural, multimedia and commercial
activities under the name” Cultural
Bridge between East and West”, the
title that was truly displayed in the
huge sign over the Obeikan section
at the fair. On the sides. huge signs
display the names of its Arab and
Foreign authors. Display screens are
playing videos about the company
recent issues of books that had
been awarded special prizes . It also
displays titles of the 2300 publications
,1000 of which are translations
from other languages in addition to
500 digital audio books. Obeikan
works continuously to develop its
publishing techniques to keep up with
breath taking competition in a fast
moving digital world. Also, Obeikan
applies revolutionary techniques and
technologies in its books world.
It is worth mentioning that the
dedicated display area of the fair
is 172,000 square meters and 115
countries as well as 7300 publishers
are taking part in this year fair, with
Brazil the guest of honor for this year.
Sharjah Third International Book Fair
Publishers, as well as reading lovers,
are getting ready for the opening
of Sharjah Third international book
fair in its thirty two cycle that starts
on the sixth of November 2013 and
ends on the sixteen of November. 950
publishers, Arab and international,
from 90 countries are participating in
the book fair including United States
of America, Great Britain, Austria,
France, India, Pakistan, Lebanon, Saudi
Arabia and many others.
Obeikan Publishing is one of the major
participants, were its participation
includes 650 titles, 50 of which are
dedicated for children. Its location is
facing the entrance door of the third
main book fair display area. When
Obeikan section manager was asked
about his expectations, he said, that
he is expecting that there will be
high demand on Historical Atlases,
bibliographies, autobiographies in
addition to a long list of books that
are on the list bestsellers in the
world. Among these books are “ Do
not be Sad” by Sheikh Ayed El Qarny,
and “How would you hold on power”
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and many others. When he was asked
about his expectations about the fair
awards and bestselling, he said, that
he expects that the book with the
title” Atlas of the Mamlooky State
History” would be granted the award
of “The best Arabic book” which is one
of the five awards the book fair gives
out every year. Other awards include:
Cultural personality of the year
award, Sharjah Emirati book award,
the best non Arabic book award, and
Publishers award.
When the Obeikan publishing section
manager, Mohammad ALFraih, was
asked about where does Obeikan
stand among international publishers,
he said, Obeikan published 2300 titles,
1000 titles are translated from other
languages, in addition to 1800 digital
audio books. He added, Obeikan
works continuously to develop its
publishing techniques to keep up with
breath taking competition in a fast
moving digital world. Also, Obeikan
applies revolutionary techniques and
technologies in its books world.
Sharjah Book Fair goes back to 1982.
This year, the fair is presenting more
than 130 cultural activities over
a period of 11 days to accompany
the selling activities and publishers
meetings. All this in addition to the
“Culture and poetry Coffee shop” that
has a variety of activities including
Literature, Poetry, Heritage, Language
as well as stage plays.
Children’s activities include 200
activity run by children specialists
and have children participating
in from: UAE, Korea, Sweden, Iraq,
Kuwait, Tunisia, as well as France.
malfraih@obeikan.com.sa
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E mp l oy e e ’ s C o r n e r
Warm And Sympathy Words To Our
Pilipino Colleagues
We all heard and observed on the media the devastating hurricane Haiyan impacted
lately the Philippines. Authorities said at least 10 million people in 41 provinces were
affected by the Hurricane which was likely the most catastrophic natural disaster
to beset the country. Thousands of dead’s and hundreds were still lost. Many were
homeless suffering for shelter and starving for basic food.
On behalf of entire OIG , we express To All our decent Pilipino colleagues , our
deepest and most sincere thoughts and share your pains , tears and sorrow. We hope
OIG Worldwide
that all your families and relatives are safe and practicing peaceful life.
‫مجموعة العبيكان لإلستثمار‬
Ma moon Alsaudi
Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia
Head quarters
P.O Box 6672 Riyadh 11452
info@obeikan.com.sa
www.obeikan.com.sa
Unified No. 920002341
Tel: (+966) 11-2839400
Fax: (+966)11-2654351
United Arab Emirates
SIG Combibloc Obeikan
(Head Office)
represents also: all other
countries
in Middle East and Africa
SIG Combibloc Obeikan FZCO
Dubai Airport Free Zone
P.O. Box 54335
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
www.sigcombiblocobeikan.com
Tel.: +971 4 299 6262
Fax : +971 4 299 6263
E-Mail: info.cbob@sig.biz
Egypt
Fifth Compound
Al Showayfaat Street Villa no
415
First Area North Showayfaat
Cairo, Egypt
www.sigcombiblocobeikan.com
Tel.: +20 2 261 791 -46 or -47
Fax : +20 2 261 791 49
E-Mail: info.cbob@sig.biz
Jordan
Obeikan Education
Sweileh P.O Box 2219, Jordan
11910
Tel. :+962.6.533.4174
Fax: +962.6.533.4176
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