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The Azadea Group is a retail company that owns and operates more than 50 international franchise concepts across the Middle East and North Africa. Since its inception in 1978, the Group has developed a stores representing brand names in fashion and accessories, food and beverage, home furnishings, sporting goods and multimedia.

The company has more than 600 stores and over 11,000 employees spread across 13 countries including Algeria, Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Ghana, Jordan, Kenya, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.^{[citation needed]}

History

In 1978, Wassim Daher opened a small clothing store on Hamra Street, in the heart of Lebanon, Beirut.

In the 1980s the Group obtained its first international retail franchise, MaxMara. The company continued to expand in the Middle East over the next two decades, opening outlets in the United Arab Emirates (1993), Kuwait (1998), Qatar (1998), Bahrain (1999), Jordan (2001), Egypt (2005)