IFFCO Group
Company-provided description, not an official-source fact. Certifications, capacities, years and market positions stated in it are the company's own claims until a record below confirms them.
UAE's leading FMCG and food group, 95 operations in 101 countries since 1975.
IFFCO Group (International Foodstuffs Company) was established in 1975 in Sharjah by Abdul Razak Allana and opened its first manufacturing facility in 1981, growing into a multinational conglomerate managing 95 operations across 101 countries. The group manufactures edible oils, dairy products, confectionery, frozen foods, plant-based alternatives, and industrial packaging solutions, with nearly 60% of revenue generated from international markets. IFFCO Professional serves B2B food-service operators through a dedicated HORECA supply platform.
- Type
- manufacturer (our classification of the record, not a statement by the company)
- Role
- Manufacturer (official record)
- Location
- Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
- Founded
- 1975 (from our catalogue record; not confirmed by the company or by a state register)
- Website
- iffco.com
- Categories
- Pantry & Dry Goods, Beverages, Frozen & Chilled Food, Packaging & Printing Supplies
- Markets
- India, Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, South Africa, Morocco, Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Listed in a source registry
What is established and what is not
No researcher review has been written for this company yet. 1 official record from 1 official source is on file. 5 other entries are not official records: our own technical checks and searches, open directory listings, our inferences or the company's own statements. Everything is listed below with its evidence type: each entry confirms only what it literally says; none of them is a review. The manufacturing role above rests on the official records listed below, and only as far as each literally goes: a facility registration or licence is not an observation of current production. Nothing here confirms ownership or trading status beyond what each record literally says.
Facts on file, each with its evidence type
- Business email on the company's own domain (record type: corporate-mail-on-domain) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] Shows the domain runs its own email rather than a free mailbox. It describes the domain, not who owns it. checked 2026-08-08. Mail server of the company domain
- Website domain registered (record type: domain-registered) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] Shows how long this web address has been registered. That is the age of the domain, not of the company: a domain can change owners. checked 2026-08-08. Domain registry record
- First recorded on the web archive (record type: web-presence-since) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] The company website was already online in 2000. Shows a web archive saw a page at this address on that date. It does not show who ran the site then. checked 2026-08-04. Internet Archive (Wayback)
- No match found in the debarment registers we checked (record type: debarment-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public debarment datasets and found no matching candidate. Absence from these lists is a search result, not a certificate. Screened by name only: no legal entity is established for this record, so this is not a clearance. checked 2026-08-08. OpenSanctions
- No match found on the sanctions lists we checked (record type: sanctions-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public sanctions datasets and found no matching candidate. A name search is not full compliance screening. Screened by name only: no legal entity is established for this record, so this is not a clearance. checked 2026-08-08. OpenSanctions
- Operating permit for the production site (record type: operating-permit) [official record; status green] Shows an authority issued a permit for an installation at this site for the activity named in the record. A permit is not an inspection report and not an observation that production is running today. checked 2026-09-06. Industrial licence register, Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology (MOIAT), United Arab Emirates
Claimed certifications, not confirmed by us
- ISO 9001, Quality Management IAF CertSearch
- ISO 22000, Food Safety IAF CertSearch
- HACCP
Import rules for these goods
- EU imports of food of animal origin and many other food categories must be pre-notified in TRACES and enter through border control posts. European Commission (TRACES)
- US imports require the foreign facility to be FDA-registered and the importer to run a Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP). US FDA
- Upcoming, not yet applicable on 2026-10-14: If the goods are paper, board or printed products, placing them on the EU market falls under the Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) due-diligence regime; packaging machinery itself does not. The EU Deforestation Regulation applies to large and medium operators from 30 December 2026 and to micro and small operators from 30 June 2027; due-diligence intensity depends on the risk level the Commission assigns to the country of production. European Commission (EUDR)
Goods family established: Frozen & Chilled Food (the company's own text), Packaging & Printing Supplies (the company's own text). The exact product, operation and trade route needed to determine a product-specific requirement are not established here. Product-specific import rules not established for the catalog categories Pantry & Dry Goods, Beverages: no record or company text names goods of this kind. A catalog category alone is our classification, not proof of what the company makes or sells.
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