Benhadji Farid

Position Chief executive officer (CEO) at Ferphos Group

Biography Benhadji Farid was appointed CEO of Algeria’s Ferphos Group in January 2009, replacing Lakhdar Mebarki. Prior to this, Farid held a senior position at Ferphos’ subsidiary group in Tebessa in the northeast of Algeria. He was also CEO of Algran, a subsidiary of Entreprise Nationale des Produits Miniers Non Ferreux & des Substances Utiles, which operates aggregates quarries in the north of the country. Ferphos Group has controlled all phosphate-related mining activities in Algeria for more than 100 years and is based in Annaba on the northeast coast. Most of its production capabilities are located at Complexe du Djebel-Onk in Tebessa province. The firm also operates several iron ore mines. Although Algeria is a relatively small miner of phosphate rock compared with Morocco, Jordan and Tunisia, it has the fourth largest proven reserves of the mineral worldwide.

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