Abderrahmane Benhamadi heard a Simon and Garfunkel song and named the company that became Algeria's largest private corporation after it
Billionaires Africa | 21.05.2026 19:21
The name came from a song. In the early 2000s, Abderrahmane Benhamadi was building a factory on the outskirts of Bordj Bou Arreridj, a city on Algeria's High Plateaus, and needed something to call the brand he was about to launch. He had been listening to "El Condor Pasa," the Simon and Garfunkel track, and liked the sound of it. He told Jeune Afrique in 2016 that it was the song in his head at the time, so he went with it.
