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Who owns Zytoun?

Zytoun is owned by Gulf Hotels Group (Bahrain, Bahrain Bourse: GHG).[1]

This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.

Evidence: Gulf Hotels Group B.S.C. Annual Report 2025 — Building Momentum for Future Growth, 22 February 2026. Last checked .

Key facts

Current owner
Gulf Hotels Group B.S.C. reported
Owner HQ
🇧🇭 Bahrain, Manama
Origin
🇧🇭 Bahrain
Category
Restaurants & foodservice › Casual dining › Casual dining restaurants
Parent ticker
Bahrain Bourse: GHG
Last verified
· 1 sources

About Zytoun

Zytoun is an all-day-dining restaurant in Gulf Hotels Group's portfolio serving Mediterranean and Middle Eastern food à la carte from breakfast through to dinner. Its name is the Arabic word for olive. It belongs to the group's second tier of outlets — open all day and ordered from a menu rather than booked as an occasion, unlike the Gulf Hotel's fine-dining rooms.

Ownership timeline of Zytoun

  1. Current owner Gulf Hotels Group [1] reported

Where Zytoun sits in Gulf Hotels Group

Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.

Where Zytoun sits in Gulf Hotels Group Tree of 23 brands under Gulf Hotels Group. Gulf Hotels Group Zytoun Al Waha Restaurant Bahrain Airport Hotel 51% China Garden Doña by Margarita Mexicana Fishbone and 17 more

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Other brands owned by Gulf Hotels Group

Gulf Hotels Group controls 23 brands on Brandtree, 19 of them in restaurants & foodservice.

Also in restaurants & foodservice

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Other brands in casual dining restaurants, and who owns them

Gulf Hotels Group has more brands in casual dining restaurants on Brandtree than any other owner: 19 of 72.

BrandOwnerOwner based in
Casa Bella Spur Corporation 🇿🇦 South Africa
Chaonabian Jiumaojiu 🇨🇳 China
Bonefish Grill Bloomin' Brands 🇺🇸 United States
Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen Darden 🇺🇸 United States
Oliver's Super Sandwiches Café de Coral 🇭🇰 Hong Kong
Café de Paris Monte-Carlo Monte-Carlo SBM 🇲🇨 Monaco
Chili's Grill & Bar Brinker 🇺🇸 United States
North Italia Cheesecake Factory 🇺🇸 United States

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About the owner: Gulf Hotels Group

Gulf Hotels Group is a publicly listed company headquartered in Manama, Bahrain, founded in 1967. Brandtree records 23 brands under its control, and it is listed as Bahrain Bourse: GHG.

Gulf Hotels Group is Bahrain's largest hotel owner-operator, incorporated in 1967 as Bahrain Hotels Company and renamed in 1969, the year it opened the Gulf Hotel — the country's first five-star hotel. It runs eight properties with about 1,200 keys, roughly twenty restaurants and twelve cafés and lounges, and reported net profit up 44 per cent in 2025 on a net margin of 23 per cent. Unusually for a hotel company its restaurant brands travel on their own: Takht Jamsheed and China Garden are being franchised and opened away from the hotels, in Bahrain malls, at Time Out Market Bahrain and in Saudi Arabia.

Gulf Hotels Group: full profile, brands and acquisition history →

🇧🇭 Zytoun and other Bahraini brands

Brandtree records a controlling owner for 31 brands that began in Bahrain. 2 of them (6%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Zytoun is not one of them.

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Frequently asked questions

Who is the parent company of Zytoun?

The parent company of Zytoun is Gulf Hotels Group, a publicly listed company headquartered in Bahrain.

Is Zytoun Bahraini?

Yes. Zytoun originated in Bahrain and its owner, Gulf Hotels Group, is also headquartered in Bahrain.

Is Zytoun still owned by Gulf Hotels Group?

Yes. As of 25 September 2026, Zytoun is still owned by Gulf Hotels 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. [1] Gulf Hotels Group B.S.C. Annual Report 2025 — Building Momentum for Future Growth — Gulf Hotels Group B.S.C., Annual report, published 22 February 2026; retrieved 25 September 2026.

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