The HSA Group was founded in 1938 by four brothers from the Saeed Anam family. Today, it employs 35,000 people across 70 companies and 80 markets in South Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The group’s core activities are in manufacturing edible oils, dairy products, biscuits, confectionery, flour milling, sugar refining, cartons, printing and packaging, and cement production. HSA expanded outside its native Yemen and set up manufacturing plants in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Malaysia, Indonesia, Kenya, and Nigeria. In 2019 and 2020, the company established its first industrial plants in Ghana, Angola, and Senegal.