Algerie Telecom

Algerie Telecom is a national company which operates the telecommunications in Algeria.

Information:

Type: Public company

Headquarters: Algiers

Industry: Telecommunications

Revenue: 203,976 Million DA

Employees: 23,209

Algerie Telecom is the leading company in the Algerian market of telecommunications which is expecting a massive growth during the past 5 years, offering a range of mobile and data services to residential and business customers. The company was officially formed in 2003.

The company’s ambition is to have a high level of technical, economical and social performance in order to maintain itself leader in its field in a competitive environment, also to participate in developing and promoting the information technology in the Algerian society.

Divisions

Mobilis

Mobilis provides mobile telephony services

Djaweb

Djaweb provides internet services 

Groupe Saidal

Groupe Saidal, S.p.A. is the largest pharmaceutical company in Algeria and one of the largest in Africa.

Information:

Type: Public Company

Headquarters: Annaba, Algeria

Industry: Pharmaceuticals

Revenue: €160 Million

Employees: 4,300

Saidal was founded in 1984, the company is owned by the government. The challenge of Saidal is to cover the needs of medicine in the national market and it has made a strategy which is aimed for reducing the imports of medicine by developing of the pharmaceutical industry in the country.

Saidal was established after 20 years of Algeria’s Independence after re-structuring the Algerian Central Pharmacy Company and the National Chemical Industry, the main goal of the company was to reduce the dependency of Algeria to other countries with regarding medicine.

Saidal is currently developing and producing a variety of 180 medical products which is covering 20 therapeutic departments such as heart disease, diabetes, flu and dermatology.

Saidal has 50 factories and 9 production labs in the country also it exports the products abroad mainly to Arab and African countries.

Naftal

Naftal is the principal company selling petroleum-based fuels for domestic consumption in Algerian market; its petrol stations are a familiar sight throughout the country. In 1998, it became a subsidiary of Sonatrach.

Information:

Type: Public Company 

Headquarters: Algiers, Algeria

Industry: Gasoline, Diesel and Petrol

Revenue: 15.6 Billion DA

Employees: 30,000

NAFTAL main objective is distribution and marketing of petroleum products on the domestic market. It operates in the following fields:

• supplying petrol stations with fuel
• distribution, storage and marketing of fuels
• transportation of petroleum products around country

Sonatrach

Sonatrach (Société Nationale pour la Recherche, la Production, le Transport, la Transformation, et la Commercialisation des Hydrocarbures s.p.a) is an Algerian public company and a major enterprise in the oil industry.

Information:

Type: Public Company

Headquarters: Algiers, Algeria

Industry: Oil and Natural Gas

Revenue: $77 Billion 

Employees: 120,000

Sonatrach is the largest  and richest Algerian and African company and the 11th largest oil consortium in the world, it is the backbone of the Algerian economy. Its diversified activities cover all aspects of production: exploration, extraction, transport, and refining. It has diversified into petrochemistry and the desalination of seawater. Sonatrach was founded on December 31, 1963. At the time, however, the Algerian state held only 4.5% of the exploration perimeters, while French interests were as high as 67.5%. After the Arab-Israeli War in June 1967, Algeria decided to nationalize the refining and distribution activities of Mobil and Esso, and Sonatrach signed an agreement with Getty Oil on October 19, 1968 receiving 51% of Getty Oil's interests.

It gained control over all Algerian petrochemical resources following President Houari Boumedienne's nationalization of all French oil and gas holdings beginning on February 24, 1971. The old concession system was replaced by a seizure of a 51% share of French petroleum companies.

 

Only Total agreed to continue its activities; the other companies left Algeria. Beginning on December 10, 1979, a conference on the exploitation of petroleum recommended increasing participation in the research efforts by foreign companies and countries. By a decree published in the Journal Officiel on May 17, 1980, Sonatrach was divided into four enterprises. From 1986, it became possible for foreign hydrocarbon companies to do business in Algeria within a partnership with Sonatrach (this process was simplified in 1991). The Sonatrach-Gaz de France accord, signed on January 12, 1989, allowed the state to set a compromise price of about $2.30 per million BTUs. A total of 9.5 billion cubic meters of natural gas were delivered annually until 1990, and Sonatrach recovered 850 million francs in arrears, since the accord applied retroactively beginning on November 1, 1987.

Operational Regions 

Africa:

Mali, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Niger and Mauritania

Europe:

Spain, Italy, France, Russia, United Kingdom and Portugal 

America:

United States and Peru