Who owns Safia?
Safia is owned by DAL Group (the Sudan).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: DAL Group — Food & Beverages. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- DAL Group Company Ltd reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇸🇩 Sudan, Khartoum
- Origin
- 🇸🇩 Sudan
- Category
- Beverages › Soft drinks › Bottled water
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Safia
Safia is the bottled water brand DAL Food describes as the leading one in Sudan. It was brought into DAL Food Industries, the company set up in 2002 to bottle Coca-Cola, and is filled at the group's plant in Khartoum North alongside the carbonated drinks and juices. DAL calls that facility one of the most advanced in Africa and the Middle East, and supplies it through a depot network and delivery fleet that reaches the rest of the country.
Ownership timeline of Safia
Where Safia sits in DAL Group
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by DAL Group
DAL Group controls 9 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in beverages.
Also in beverages
Other brands in bottled water, and who owns them
The 123 brands in bottled water on Brandtree belong to 74 owners. The largest is Spadel, with 5; DAL Group has 2.
About the owner: DAL Group
DAL Group is a privately held company headquartered in Khartoum, Sudan, founded in 1951. Brandtree records 9 brands under its control.
DAL Group calls itself Sudan's largest and most diversified privately owned conglomerate, and dates itself to 1951, when two British businessmen founded Sayer & Colley to trade engineering products such as bearings and belts. Caterpillar later gave it the Sudanese dealership, moved that dealership to Daoud Abdellatif's new company SUTRAC in 1966, and both firms were nationalised in 1970 before returning to private hands by the end of the decade; his eldest son Osama then renamed Sayer & Colley after his father's initials. Its consumer arm is DAL Food, formed in December 2013 from four group companies in agriculture, dairy, flour and soft drinks; the group also holds the Mercedes-Benz and Mitsubishi dealerships for Sudan, an industrial gases producer, a pharmaceutical importer and an international school.
🇸🇩 Safia and other Sudanese brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 11 brands that began in the Sudan. All of them are controlled from the Sudan.
- Badr Airlines — Badr Airlines 🇸🇩
- Sudan Airways — Sudan Airways 🇸🇩
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Safia?
The parent company of Safia is DAL Group, a privately held company headquartered in the Sudan.
Is Safia Sudanese?
Yes. Safia originated in the Sudan and its owner, DAL Group, is also headquartered in the Sudan.
Is Safia still owned by DAL Group?
Yes. As of 22 September 2026, Safia is still owned by DAL Group. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
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] DAL Group — Food & Beverages — DAL Group, Official document; retrieved 22 September 2026.
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