The Middle East’s

Top 100 Listed
Companies 2022

24. Industries Qatar (IQ)

Country: Qatar

Sector: Industrials

Managing Director and Chairman: Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi

Market Value: $33.6 billion

Sales: $3.9 billion

Profits: $2.2 billion

Assets: $11.6 billion

IQ was incorporated as a Qatari joint stock company in 2003. The IQ Group currently owns 80% of the Qatar Petrochemical Company and 50% of the Qatar Fuel Additives Company Limited. It also wholly owns the Qatar Steel Company and the Qatar Fertilizer Company. In April 2022, IQ approved a contract for a new PVC plant by the Qatar Vinyl Company, with a total contract value of $239 million, which is expected to be completed in 2025. Managing Director and Chairman Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi is also Qatar’s Minister of State for Energy Affairs and the Deputy Chairman, President, and CEO of Qatar Energy, formerly known as Qatar Petroleum.