Founded in 1948, Abdul Hadi Abdullah Al-Qahtani & Sons is one of the largest family held companies in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia with businesses in the Middle East, Africa, Europe and the United States. The Company had diversi ed into a wide array of sectors servicing the oil and gas and construction industries with steel pipe coating, water puri cation/treatment, energy, oil eld services and supplies, logistics, edu- cation, plus developed interests in many other elds. Since Sheikh Al-Qahtani came on board in 1994, he has grown the original company into the Al-Qahtani Group of Companies, with 23 businesses in diverse industries employing thousands of people in Saudi Arabia, Algeria, India, the USA and other countries.