Al Qahtani Beverages: version 1
Saved 2026-09-25 10:50 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added **Mountain Dew 1 L** (UPC 012000002977), the 33.8 fl oz variant family/mountain-dew names, with two company stubs: company/al-qahtani-beverages (the Saudi bottler printed on the label) and its p. This is the current version.
Source of v1
# Al Qahtani Beverages <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Al Qahtani Beverages
summary: Saudi soft drinks bottler in the 'Asir region, PepsiCo's exclusive bottler there since 1983, filling Pepsi, 7 Up, Mirinda and Mountain Dew for southern Saudi Arabia.
country: SA
website: https://aqh.com.sa/creating-value/beverages/al-qahtani-beverages/
founded: 1982
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| -------- | ------------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ------ | ----------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/alqahtani-holding | | | | | sourced | ^aqb | Alqahtani Holding calls it "our beverage subsidiary". |
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## Establishments <!--establishments-->
| mark | kind | address | country | source | note |
| ---- | ------ | -------------- | ------- | ------ | --------------------------------------------------------------- |
| | plant | Khamis Mushayt | SA | ^aqb | Main manufacturing facility, over half a billion drinks a year. |
| | office | Abha | SA | ^pack | The town printed after the company name on the bottle label. |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ----------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| شركة ع.ع. القحطاني وأولاده المحدودة | name | ar | | |
| A.A. Al-Qahtani & Sons | search | en | | |
| AQS Pepsi | search | en | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ---- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------------- | ------------ | ---------- | --------------------- | ---------------- | ------------ | ---------------------------- | -------- |
| pack | https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/001/200/000/2977/2.jpg | Photograph of the 1 L Saudi bottle's wraparound label: barcode, Arabic ingredients, bottler line, energy icon, trademark line | 2026-09-25 | Open Food Facts | pack | 2025-11-09 | 0012000002977 imgid 2 | Wraparound label | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Open Food Facts contributors | |
| aqb | https://aqh.com.sa/creating-value/beverages/al-qahtani-beverages/ | Al Qahtani Beverages - Alqahtani Holding | 2026-09-25 | Alqahtani Holding | manufacturer | | | | | | |
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## About <!--about-->
Al Qahtani Beverages is the soft drinks subsidiary of Alqahtani Holding, founded in 1982, which received an Exclusive Bottling Appointment from PepsiCo in 1983 and describes itself as the leading producer and distributor of Pepsi, 7 Up, Mirinda and Mountain Dew in southern Saudi Arabia.[^aqb] Its main plant is in Khamis Mushayt, with warehouses serving Jizan, Najran, Mohail, Modailef, Baha, Bisha and Khomasein; it also sells Tropicana juices and Lipton Ice Tea, and since 2013 has supplied Aquafina water to the region.[^aqb] Its bottles carry its name in Arabic as "ع.ع. القحطاني وأولاده المحدودة" with the address Abha.[^pack]
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