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Nicolas Abou Fayssal - Biography

- Lebanese industrial born in Kfarzabad - Zahleh 1963

- Graduated from the faculty of Law at the Lebanese University in 1987

- Founded the company Gardenia Grain D’Or in 1989.

- Gardenia Gran r D’Or participated over 25 years in numerous exhibitions in Lebanon and worldwide. - Gardenia Grain D’Or won several local and international awards.

- Gardenia Grain D’Or has ISO 2005/22000 and 22005/2007.

- Also received Gulfood Award 2011 for The Best New Fast Food Product or Innovation - Lebanese mezze, with the participation of 150 companies from 23 countries.

- In 2012 Gardenia Grain D’Or received the Tatweej Award (Excellence Awards Academy -UAE) for being one of the best in the Arab world.

- Gardenia Grain D’Or won the Lebanese Excellence Award from the Lebanese President Michel Suleiman in 2014.

- The total Area of Gardenia factories is 12,000 m ².

- Gardenia products are exported to 42 countries worldwide.

- In 2011, Gardenia Grain D’Or launched a program for developing the rural areas in collaboration with the U.S. Agency. Its aim is to assist the farmers in the Lebanese villages, through the purchase of their production and help them to get rid of pesticides and chemical fertilizers in their product and help farmers to adopt cleaner irrigation system to get natural products.

-Launched in 2012 the program of “Empowering Women in Rural Areas” in collaboration with civil society in Zahleh; nearly 35 Lebanese women daily prepare mezze canned and stuffed vine leaves and other kinds of mezze.

-Gardenia Grain D’Or has many future projects in Lebanon and abroad. In Lebanon it launched projects for drying herbs and fruits, to be packed and exported. It also came up with an innovative vision to organize the Lebanese apple surplus.

-Gardenia Grain D’Or has branches and agents around the world and recently has been investing in Armenia in the agricultural sector with the support of the Lebanese embassy there. It launched the cultivation of the American pecan on nearly 30,000 trees with an area of 100 hectares.