Mohamed Laid Benamor inherited his father's tomato cannery in 1984 and turned it into Algeria's biggest food empire
Billionaires Africa | 20.05.2026 20:42
In 1984, a man named Amor Benamor started a small tomato-processing plant in El Fedjoudj, a commune in the northeastern Algerian province of Guelma. The facility processed 200 tonnes of tomatoes a day. It was modest, regional and entirely unremarkable by the standards of what it would eventually become.
