What Litat Group does

Litat Group is a privately-held Lebanese industrial conglomerate founded in 1992 by Rafic Daou, headquartered in Yarze, Baabda (Lebanon), with operating subsidiaries across Lebanon, Egypt, Ukraine, Cyprus, and the UAE, and a workforce of approximately 3,000 employees. The group operates three integrated business lines: (1) steel production and trading, (2) agribusiness commodities trading, and (3) logistics, shipping, and port management services. Its core industrial asset is the Suez Steel Company complex in Egypt (held under Solb Misr), which spans 1,985,000 square meters near the Red Sea Bay and operates a total nominal production capacity of 2.3 million MT of steel per year across two steel melt shops, three rolling mills, and what is described as the world's largest single-module Direct Reduction Plant (1.95 million MT/year) using Energiron direct reduction technology and the HYTEMP hot-link charging system. Supporting the steel franchise are by-product recovery units (slag treatment, R.O. water recycling), an exclusive berth at Adabeya Port for export, in-house shipping and forwarding operations (Inter-Transit-2 in Ukraine), and procurement offices that historically sourced iron ore and metallics from Eastern Europe. The group trades approximately 3 million MT of steel products per year (billets, slabs, beam blanks, rebars, wire rods, cut-and-bent bars) to construction and manufacturing clients across more than 30 MENA countries.

The agribusiness segment trades food commodities — beef, poultry, pulses (lentils, fava beans), sunflower oil, live cattle for fattening — sourced from suppliers in North America, South America, South Africa, Europe, and Australia, and distributes them globally. Within agribusiness, Citadel Bdadoun LTD produces the "Adon & Myrrh" premium extra-virgin olive oil brand in Lebanon (a bronze medal winner at the Los Angeles International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Competition), giving the group a small consumer-facing SKU on top of its otherwise B2B portfolio. Logistics services include port terminal management (the group previously operated a 5 million MT/year terminal in Ukraine before divesting it in 2006), 360-degree forwarding via Inter-Transit-2, and project development / turnkey EPC services from concept through commissioning. The revenue model is a hybrid of hardware sales (steel produced by Suez Steel), transaction-fee trading (steel and agribusiness commodities moved through Litat's own logistics), and managed services (port, forwarding, and project development), with all sales executed through direct enterprise relationships and no disclosed pricing or digital commerce channels. The company is family-controlled, self-funded (no disclosed funding rounds or institutional investors), and operates as an unlisted private group.

Name

Litat Group

Legal name

L.I.T.A.T Group

Website

https://litat.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1992

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Litat Group is a Lebanese-founded private industrial conglomerate that operates an integrated steel complex in Egypt (2.3M MT/year), trades steel and agribusiness commodities, and provides logistics and turnkey project services to construction, manufacturing, and food-distribution clients across 30+ MENA countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Baabda

HQ country

Lebanon

HQ region

Middle East

Offices7 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Infrastructure, Personnel, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Steel Trading: Trading approximately 3 million MT of steel per year including rebars, wire rods, slabs, and other steel products across 30 countries in MENA region
2. Steel Production: Integrated steel complex producing semi-finished and finished steel products with total nominal capacity of 2.3 million MT per year through Suez Steel Company in Egypt
3. Agribusiness Trading: Trading food commodities including meat, poultry, live cattle, lentils, sunflower oil, fava beans, and olive oil globally from suppliers in North America, South America, South Africa, Europe, and Australia
4. Logistics and Port Management: Port management services including berth usage, cargo handling, shipping and forwarding operations through InterTransit 2, and maritime logistics using company-owned vessels

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Litat Group is a diversified industrial conglomerate that manufactures and trades steel products (billets, beam blanks, slabs, rebars, wire rod coils, cut & bent bars) through its integrated Suez Steel Company complex in Egypt (2.3 million MT/year), trades agribusiness commodities (beef, poultry, pulses, sunflower oil, olive oil, live cattle) globally, and provides logistics, shipping, forwarding (InterTransit-2), and turnkey project development services. The group also owns the Adon & Myrrh premium extra virgin olive oil brand produced in Lebanon.

Product overview

Litat Group operates as a diversified industrial conglomerate offering steel products (Billets, Beam Blanks, Slab, Rebars, Coils, Cut & Bent Bars), agribusiness commodities (Beef, Poultry, Pulses, Sunflower Oil, Live Bull, and the premium Adon & Myrrh Olive Oil brand), and services including project development, logistics, shipping, and port management. The company runs an integrated steel complex in Egypt through Suez Steel Company with a total nominal capacity of 2.3 million MT per year, operates across MENA region with offices in Lebanon, Egypt, Ukraine, Cyprus, and Dubai.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Adon & Myrrh: Extra virgin olive oil brand from Lebanon, produced by Citadel Bdadoun LTD
• Solb Misr

Products and services

• Billets Semi-finished steel product used as raw material for further processing into bars, rods, or other steel shapes; sold to steel manufacturers and rolling mills.
• Beam Blanks Semi-finished steel product specifically designed for beam production, serving as input for structural steel manufacturing.
• Slab Semi-finished steel product typically used as feedstock for rolling mills to produce plate and strip products.
• Rebars

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• National Service Projects Organization (Egypt)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2016In 2016, Litat Group strategically sold Misr National Steel Company and partnered with the National Service Projects Organization (جهاز مشروعات الخدمة الوطنية) as a strategic partner within Solb Misr (Suez Steel) group. This partnership involves the National Service Projects Organization as a key strategic stakeholder in Egypt's steel industry.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Ezz Steel: Egypt's largest integrated steel producer with rebar, wire rod, and billet capacity well above 5 million MT. Directly comparable as a MENA-based DRI/EAF integrated competitor serving the same construction customers as Litat's Suez Steel.
• İçdaş: Turkish integrated steelmaker with DRI and rolling capacity producing rebar and sections for export. Comparable as a privately held DRI-EAF integrated competitor with similar capital structure and export-driven model.
• Qatar Steel: Qatar's integrated DRI-based steelmaker producing rebar, wire rod, and billets for domestic and export markets. Closely comparable as another GCC MENA DRI-EAF integrated producer with similar scale and export orientation.
• Hadeed (SABIC): Saudi Arabia's largest integrated steelmaker (SABIC subsidiary) operating DRI-based steel production for rebar and structural steel. Comparable as a regional DRI-steel incumbent with similar feedstock flexibility and MENA customer base.
• Emirates Steel Arkan: UAE-based integrated steel producer combining DRI, EAF, and rolling for rebar, wire rod, and heavy sections. Comparable as a Gulf integrated steel competitor serving similar construction and infrastructure customers as Litat.
• Erdemir (Turkey): Turkey's largest integrated flat and long steel producer with DRI, steelmaking, and rolling. Comparable as a regional integrated long-products producer exporting into MENA and competing with Litat in Mediterranean and Middle East markets.

Broad incumbents

• Cargill: Global agribusiness giant trading grains, oilseeds, meats, and food ingredients. Comparable as a much larger incumbent in the same food-commodity trading space (meat, pulses, sunflower oil) that Litat operates in.
• Bunge: Global agribusiness and food trading major handling grains, oilseeds, and processed oils. Comparable as a global oilseed/oil trading incumbent whose sunflower oil and pulses flow overlap with Litat's agribusiness segment.
• Louis Dreyfus Company: Global merchant trader of agricultural commodities including oilseeds, grains, and pulses. Comparable as a diversified agricultural trading incumbent in the same commodities (sunflower oil, pulses) that Litat trades internationally.

Regional players

• Tosyalı Holding: Turkish-origin steel group with significant integrated capacity in Turkey and Algeria (Tosyalı Algerie). Comparable as a privately held integrated steel producer expanding across MENA and North Africa, competing with Litat in regional export markets.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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