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Jahez International Company, a platform that connects customers with restaurants through online orders, organized a series of community-driven and customer focused initiatives during March. These included strategic partnerships, exclusive collaborations, exciting competitions, and traditional celebrations, reflecting the company’s broader strategy to engage with its customers and support the community.

Recognizing Ramadan as a time that brings people together through shared values and traditions, Jahez implemented its March initiatives in a way that balanced its social impact in the community while engaging its customers. Each initiative launched during the period was selected to address different community needs while offering customers meaningful ways to celebrate the values behind the holy month.

Bader Al-Ajeel, chief executive of Jahez, said: “We at Jahez International are committed to creating long-term value through initiatives that strengthen our role as contributors to the Kuwaiti community. This Ramadan, we aligned our efforts through strategic partnerships and specific programs that support various causes and spread awareness, while also deepening our engagement with our valued customers. These initiatives are part of our broader roadmap for 2025 that integrates social responsibility into our operations.” 

During Ramadan, Jahez launched the “Jahazeyat Menu,” a special sharing box priced at 2.95 Kuwaiti dinars ($10). It included stuffed grape leaves, chocolate fudge, mahalabia, and a festive Gargee’an gift box. Customers could easily find it on the Jahez app under its own listing.

The company introduced a TV series called “Qafsha Show” for its partners. The series aired on KTV and online platforms and featured a different Jahez partner daily. Through the show, guests highlighted their Jahez-affiliated restaurants and the stories behind them, offering viewers a closer look at the people and passion driving local businesses.

Additionally, Jahez introduced its exclusive collaboration between doh! and Chef Sawsan Matbakhi, which introduced a new special menu item.

Jahez also distributed more than 4,000 iftar meals. The initiative was launched in collaboration with Zajel Kuwait, a local nonprofit organization. Additionally, the company participated in the “Longest Iftar Table” initiative, a renowned event held at Souq Sharq where people gather to break their fast.

Moreover, Jahez initiated strategic partnerships with four local charities, namely Direct Aid Charity, Balad Alkhair Society, Al-Waqf Al-Ensani Society, and Alnajat Charity.

Despite the complex challenges on the world stage, SABIC continues to stand out with its innovative solutions for a sustainable future, creating solutions that benefit both humanity and business.

Honoring SABIC’s commitment toward innovation, the prestigious Edison Awards has recognized the company for an unprecedented six of its innovative solutions across three categories — Material Science, Green Energy Transition, and Clean Water, Food & Agriculture – demonstrating once again how innovation and collaboration remain core drivers of its growth strategy.

This is the fifth year in a row that SABIC’s solutions have been recognized by the Edison Awards, which honors the world’s most innovative new products, services, and business leaders.

SABIC won one gold, two silver, and three bronze awards.

In the Materials Science category, SABIC won four awards:  LNP WF0087N and WFB16NiQ compounds for smartphone middle frames that boost fire safety and signal performance; LEXAN LUX2289, the first ultra-white light-shielding material for headlight brackets; THERMOCOMP WFC061I, the first FR, laser-weldable thermoplastic for electric vehicle control units; and LNP ELCRES FST2734E, the first FST-compliant, sustainable, high-quality thermoplastic for railway interiors.

SABIC won an award each in the Green Energy Transition category for developing the world's first electrically powered steam cracking in partnership with BASF and Linde; and in the Clean Water, Food & Agriculture category for its unique, patented process that transforms by-product gypsum and CO2 into valuable agricultural products.

The company’s innovations are developed at its global network of innovation hubs, across the Middle East, Asia, the US and Europe.

Through these centers, SABIC develops groundbreaking technologies and market-focused solutions that address the world's evolving needs.  

With its TRUCIRCLE initiative, SABIC develops a variety of innovative applications used across the value chain.

The initiative encompasses the company’s circular materials and technologies, including certified circular polymers from chemical recycling of used plastic, certified bio-based renewable polymers, and more.

Moreover, SABIC is seeking to improve the overall sustainability of energy storage solutions enabled by its BLUEHERO initiative, which is designed to help accelerate the transition to electric power and support meeting global goals on climate change.

SABIC also emphasizes strengthened partnerships with Saudi universities through knowledge-sharing initiatives that build their capabilities and drive groundbreaking ideas.

For instance, SABIC and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology have collaborated to develop a new technology for metalizing plastics that eliminates the use of a chemical that is classified as a substance of very high concern by the EU.

SABIC Agri-Nutrients is also bringing differentiated bio-enhanced fertilizer products to the market.

Its portfolio includes biologically enhanced urea fertilizer powered by BiOWiSH, which has the potential for lower greenhouse gas emissions than conventional urea and for increased sequestration of atmospheric carbon dioxide into the soil.