Counselor/ Abdullah Ghaze Sharif Affendi Aitani

Businessman and expert in food industry and production

Counselor/ Abdullah Ghaze Affendi Aitani is a member of family has extensive experience in the food sector since 1400 AH. It has also served pilgrims (Hajjis) and Umrah performers since 1405 AH.

The Counselor was inspired by his passion from his father, who worked in the field of housing, subsistence and serving pilgrims (Hajjis). With his belief in development, his ability to innovate and seize opportunities, he made outstanding developments in the food sector with the aim of serving pilgrims (Hajjis).

Vision

Renewal in the food sector and leaving a Saudi Arabian Islamic mark that will have a global repercussions aligned with the Kingdom's Vision 2030.

Mission

Preparing reliable generations can make development, serving the country and religion, believing in change, and innovating in the field of pilgrimage (Hajji) and the food sector.

About me in numbers

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Production

Creating modern food production lines that do not exist anywhere else in the world and automating them

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Providing services

Providing housing and subsistence services for pilgrims (Hajjis)  and Umrah performers

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Improve two central kitchens in Makkah and Madinah and increase the efficiency of both kitchens to reach 300,000 meals/day in Makkah central kitchen and 160,000 meals/day in Madinah central kitchen.

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Pilgrims (Hajjis) and Umrah performers

Providing housing and subsistence services to about 5 million pilgrims (Hajjis)  and Umrah performers from 8 Arab and international countries

Main Achievements

Led by the Counselor, Al-Afandia Research and Development Center continuously monitors the best practices and technologies adopted in international production plants. These systems are then built and developed to transform into environmentally friendly, sustainable food systems

The Counselor strengthened his relations with investors and businessmen by serving pilgrims (Hajjis) and Umrah performers, which facilitated his entry into other fields in several countries around the world. Including the field of clothing industry in Turkey and Egypt, the aluminum industry in Saudi Arabia and also the export of halal food to Sweden. As well as the export of food to African and East Asian countries.

Counselor/ Abdullah Aitani has developed central kitchens to reach 460,000 meals per day. This is to serve pilgrims (Hajjis) and also to contribute to reducing the annual waste crisis in Hajj season, which amounts to thousands of tons of organic and inorganic waste.

The solution devised by the Counselor is to transform the central kitchens of the Al-Afandia Company into meal production plants. These meals do not cause any organic waste with the use of recyclable dishes.

As a result, instead of the presence of kitchens in the middle of the holy sites and the attendant risks of cooking and safety, and the increase in waste resulting from food processing, the large presence of labor and the need for storage spaces and equipment. Ready meals now reach the pilgrims (Hajjis) directly without the need for the cooking process in the middle of the holy sites, in addition to reducing traffic jam, by not entering the subsistence trucks during the presence of pilgrims in the holy sites, which provides safe walking areas for pedestrian and ensures that there are no trucks for subsistence.

The Counselor is a representative of one of the international companies specialized in food quality in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The central kitchens of Al-Afandia Company are ISO 9001, ISO 22000 and HACCP food safety certified.

Counselor/ Abdullah Ghaze Affendi Aitani has created and developed five production lines that serve Islamic and Arab kitchens that did not exist before at the global level. Develop it from the designing and planning stages, then modelling and even building and operating an integrated production line with all the equipment and machines that have been designed and invented to serve Islamic and Arab kitchen and the development is still ongoing.

Production lines contributed to maintaining quality and increase the efficiency to produce large quantities in a short period and rely on a small number of human cadres.

This underlines what was witnessed by the campaign officials of the missions and companies from various Islamic countries: that the Counselor is the first to develop and transform cooking processes from a traditional kitchen that produces small quantities and unstable quality to an automated kitchen and production lines that maintain quality and produce large quantities. 

Production lines created by the Counselor:

  • legume production line
  • Sauce production line.
  • Grill production line
  • Fries’ production line
  • Packaging line.

In addition to the establishment of a movement section capable of providing innovative and flexible solutions to deal with all conditions of transportation and delivery of food in all its forms

Current Positions

Al-Afandia Company

Chairman of the board of directors

Azwad Company

Chairman of the board of directors

saudi Alucast

Chairman of the board of directors

Diraya Company

Chairman of the board of directors

United Regional Food Catering Company

Vice Chairman & Managing Director

Al-Esra Aluminum Manufacturing & Casting Factory

Executive Board Member