Arbel Pulse Grain Industry and Trade S.A. (Arbel Bakliyat Hububat Sanayi ve Ticaret)

Arbel is one of the largest lentil and pea splitting company in the world with over 65 years of global marketing experience. Our products are lentil,chickpea,pea, bean, durum wheat semolina, pasta, rice and bulgur wheat.

Turkey (Mersin)

www.arbel.com.tr

For over 65 years from its base in Mersin, Turkey, Arbel A.Ş. has been a leader in the production, processing and export of grains, pulses, and other food products. Arbel, a subsidiary of Alliance Grain Traders Inc, a Canadian company trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX:AGT), is the largest exporter in Turkey of pulses and a major producer of other staple foods, including bulgur, pasta and rice. In 2009, all food related operations of Arbel A.Ş. where acquired by Alliance Grain Traders, adding to a total of 29 facilities in Canada, the U.S., Australia and Turkey.

Arbel A.Ş. ranked number three in the 2009 Turkish Export Rankings by the Istanbul Chamber of Industry, on its annual Second 500 List of Industrial Enterprises.

Arbel A.Ş. processing activities include cleaning, peeling, sifting, splitting, electronic colour sorting and calibration for red and green lentils, chickpeas, beans, bulgur, pasta, and semolina. Arbel A.Ş. facilities are located on a 100,000 square metre compound and operate with a combined daily capacity of 4,000 metric tons, featuring 50,000 metric tons of steel grain silos and 70,000 metric tons of horizontal storage capacity. A full-line of commercial packaged pulses, rice, bulgur and beans are available for the domestic Turkish market and for export. Bulgur and pasta production facilities feature state-of-the-art equipment processing high quality Anatolian durum wheat, with a monthly production capacity of 8,000 metric tons for bulgur, 10,000 metric tons for pasta and 13,000 metric tons for semolina, which is also used in pasta production. The Arbella Pasta brand, with over 20 long and short cut varieties, is exported to 75 countries in Africa, Europe, North America, and the Far East including Japan. Arbella Family, pasta for children in the shape of popular cartoon characters such as Loony Tunes and the Justice League, is produced as part of a licensing agreement with Warner Bros.