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Top 25 Arab companies based in the United Arab Emirates
RevenueBase identified 194 arab companies headquartered in the United Arab Emirates as of September 2026 and tracks 8,147 professional contacts across them, including 1,338 with verified work emails. Dubai is the largest hub.
This list covers arab companies headquartered in the United Arab Emirates, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest arab companies based in the United Arab Emirates
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 1,466 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “شركة أبوظبي للإعلام هي شركة الإعلام الرائدة في دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة، تركز على تطوير وإنتاج وتوزيع المحتوى المتميز والهادف للجمهور المحلي والعربي عبر 21 منصة إعلامية تشمل…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 738 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nazih Group was founded in 1975 and is present in 21 countries across the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region in addition to Europe & Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 495 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Arab Bank for Investment & Foreign Trade (Al Masraf) was established in November 1975 and started its banking operations according to the Federal Decree no.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 177 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Emirates Auction L.L.C.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 151 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Abdulla Faleh Al – Dossary Sons Contracting Co.LTD.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 125 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Quality Group, a privately owned company with operations spread across the Middle East region and international countries was incorporated in 1988.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 112 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Associated Alliance Incorporated is a diversified holding company with 11 subsidiaries operating across the Middle East and North Africa region.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “OBS Group is a privately held, diversified group of companies based in Dubai, UAE, with business interests in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, North America and growing markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ANH was the brain-child of Abdulla Nasser Huwaileel who foresaw the need for a soundly based local holding company to serve as a vehicle to develop new schemes and to handle all…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “About us Beijing Emirates Group of Companies (L.L.C)(BEC) is a dynamic and progressive construction company with a strong reputation for delivering high-quality projects across…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wonder Restaurants Group is a UAE-based company dedicated to developing, owning, and operating award-winning homegrown F&B brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CNN Business Arabic provides Arabic speakers around the world with global and regional economic, business, and finance news, facts, and analysis to help them understand the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SASCO was established in 1977 in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cornish Arabian Aluminum Factory LLC started its operation in Dubai since 1984 as "Cornish Aluminum".” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Time Machine Group is a family owned business established in 1974 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Erem Media, is a holding media company (limited liability), registered in the free media zone of Abu Dhabi Towfour54, since January 2013, aims to launch public specialized media…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 2008, Ezma Holding set foot on a sure-winning strategy of diversified growth, making a reputation for itself over the decade as a leading conglomerate in the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “UAE Enterprises Group and its subsidiaries were established in 1972 with the vision of becoming a leading supplier of building and construction materials in the UAE & GCC region.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rooted in the Middle East and Africa, Asmara Holdings has been in business for over five decades and has varied business interests in over 20 countries worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Since 1976, the United Eastern Group has steadily evolved as one of the leading diversified group of companies in the United Arab Emirates.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1986, Technical Equipment Company (TEC) is one of the largest oil and gas equipment manufacturers, suppliers and contractors in the United Arab Emirates.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Alittihad News Paper From the United Arab Emirates A Local news Paper politics,Sports,Economy, Art and Multimedia Abu Dhabi Media is one of the fastest growing, multi-platform…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “EPIMON is a trading company, incorporated and registered with the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre Authority.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Taha Investment Group (TIG) Ltd is a privately-owned entity operating in the industrial and property investment sectors in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region, Europe…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Media Pan-Arab is an innovative technology, internet publishing and marketing company since 2013.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: arab companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names arab companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of arab companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name arab companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Arab companies based in the United Arab Emirates at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Arab Emirates, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Arab Emirates, over 194 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among arab companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Arab Emirates whose own description of what they do matches “arab companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names arab companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among arab companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Arab Emirates are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,338 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Arab companies by metro
- Arab companies in Dubai91
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names arab companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many arab companies are there based in the United Arab Emirates?
RevenueBase identified 194 arab companies headquartered in the United Arab Emirates as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
ABU Dhabi Media ADM, headquartered in Abu Dhabi, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most arab companies?
Dubai leads with 91 headquartered companies, followed by Abu Dhabi (21) and Sharjah (13).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,338 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 194 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.