Who owns Herfy?
Herfy is not wholly owned by any single company recorded here: Savola (Saudi Arabia, TADAWUL: 2050) holds a 49% stake.[1]
Evidence: The Savola Group — Annual Report 2025, Savola Group Company. Last checked .
Key facts
- Largest stakeholder
- Savola Group Company (49% stake) reported
- Headquarters
- 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia, Jeddah
- Origin
- 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
- Founded
- 1981
- Category
- Restaurants & foodservice › Quick-service restaurants › Burger & chicken chains
- Parent ticker
- TADAWUL: 2050
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Herfy
Herfy is a Saudi quick-service restaurant chain founded in 1981 that sells burgers, chicken and combo meals from 382 branches. Savola owns 49 per cent and, as the largest shareholder, consolidates the listed company. Herfy also runs bakery and processed meat businesses supplying its restaurants and retail customers, and reported 2025 revenue of SAR 1,083 million with a net loss.
Ownership timeline of Herfy
Where Herfy sits in Savola
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Savola
Savola controls 5 brands on Brandtree.
Other brands in burger & chicken chains, and who owns them
The 39 brands in burger & chicken chains on Brandtree belong to 24 owners. The largest is Jollibee Group, with 5.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Chowking | Jollibee Group | 🇵🇭 Philippines |
| Arby's | Inspire Brands | 🇺🇸 United States |
| KFC | Yum! Brands | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Chester's | CP Foods | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| Burger King | Restaurant Brands International | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| Papa Murphy's | MTY Group | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| Wimpy (Middle East) | Americana Restaurants | 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates |
| Steak n Shake | Biglari Holdings | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Savola
Savola is a publicly listed company headquartered in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, founded in 1979.
Savola is a Jeddah-based investment holding company in food and grocery retail, investing since 1979 and listed on the Saudi Exchange. It owns all of Savola Foods, which makes edible oils, sugar, pasta, nuts, spices and pulses in more than five countries, and all of Panda Retail Company. It also holds 51 per cent of frozen food maker Al Kabeer and 49 per cent of Herfy Food Services. It distributed its former Almarai investment to shareholders and reported 2025 net profit of SAR 874 million.
🇸🇦 Herfy and other Saudi brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 36 brands that began in Saudi Arabia. 1 of them (3%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Herfy is not one of them.
- 7DAYS — Almarai 🇸🇦
- Acwa — ACWA Power 🇸🇦
- Aramco — Saudi Aramco 🇸🇦
- Baboo — SADAFCO 🇸🇦
- Bahri Dry Bulk — Bahri 🇸🇦
- Halwani Brothers — Halwani Bros 🇸🇦
Frequently asked questions
Who owns Herfy?
No single company recorded here owns Herfy outright. Savola holds a 49% stake.
Does Savola control Herfy?
No. A 49% holding does not give control, so Savola shares ownership with others.
Where did Herfy come from?
Herfy originated in Saudi Arabia in 1981.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] The Savola Group — Annual Report 2025 — Savola Group Company, Annual report; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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