How many food manufacturers are in Dammam?
Food processing: meat, dairy, bakery, dates, fruit and other food products. Figures for Dammam, compared with the rest of the Kingdom.
1,300
active registrations in Dammam — 6th among Saudi cities.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
Dammam has 1,300 active commercial registrations listing food manufacturers activities as of 16 September 2026 — 3.5% of the Kingdom's total and the 6th-most of any city.
Food manufacturers account for 2% of Dammam's classified registrations, below their 2.6% share nationally.
Across the Eastern Province as a whole there are 4,112.
- Food manufacturers in Dammam
- 1,300
- 3.5% of the Kingdom
- City rank
- 6 of 69
- Cities with registrations in the sector
- Concentration
- 0.8×
- Below the national average
- Nationally
- 37,149
- 2.6% of classified registrations
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Common questions
How many food manufacturers are there in Dammam?
1,300 active commercial registrations in Dammam list food manufacturers activities as of 16 September 2026 (Ministry of Commerce data).
How does Dammam compare with other cities?
Dammam ranks 6th of 69 cities for food manufacturers, with 3.5% of the national total.
How do I set up in food manufacturers in Dammam?
Confirm the activity code and its licence conditions, obtain a MISA investment licence (for foreign owners), register the company with the Ministry of Commerce, then get the municipal (Balady) licence for your premises in Dammam. Alpha Consultancy runs the whole sequence.
Figures are Alpha Consultancy's analysis of the Ministry of Commerce's open datasets on the Saudi Open Data Platform (open.data.gov.sa): the register of active commercial registrations (CRs) as of 16 September 2026.
Active CRsinclude main and branch registrations, as in the Ministry's own totals. Registered in a period counts CRs created in that period that were still active on 16 September 2026; registrations since cancelled are not in the source file, so older periods read lower than the number originally issued.
Partial quarter. The Ministry's Q3 2026 file is labelled as the quarter end but only contains registrations created up to 16 September 2026, so every figure here is as of that date and the latest quarter in the charts (marked *) is incomplete.
Sector figures cover the 1,443,322 active registrations (74.7%) that appear in the Ministry of Commerce's activity association file, which lists activities for registrations created up to 31 December 2025. Registrations created after that date are not yet classified. A registration counts once in each sector it is active in, so sectors overlap.
No individual business is identified on these pages; only aggregate counts are published.
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