THE MIDDLE EAST’S
23. Industries Qatar (IQ)
Country: Qatar
Sector: Industrials
Chairman and Managing Director: Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi
Market Value: $21.5 billion
Sales: $5.2 billion
Profits: $2.4 billion
Assets: $12.4 billion
IQ was incorporated as a Qatari joint stock company in 2003. The IQ Group currently owns 80% of the Qatar Petrochemical Company and 50% of the Qatar Fuel Additives Company Limited. It also wholly owns the Qatar Steel Company and the Qatar Fertilizer Company. In August 2022, the company signed a $1.06 billion agreement to build the world’s largest Blue Ammonia facility (Ammonia-7) by the Qatar Fertilizer Company.