A Directory of Commercial Establishments in the Eastern Region of Saudi Arabia. ARAMCO.

Rare first edition of this directory for companies working in trade, retail sales, and services. We have traced only one other copy on OCLC, and very few editions of the LIDD directory appear to be extant. Aramco's Local Industrial Development Department (LIDD) was established in the late 1950s to help create local Saudi businesses. The preface states: "As the largest industrial employer in the Kingdom, Aramco welcomes the growth of a strong business sector.For more than 40 years, Aramco has actively promoted commercial, agricultural and industrial development in the Kingdom" (p. i). Designed to advertise manufacturers and contractors to national and foreign clients and investors, this directory was part of this industrialization project. It resulted from "business surveys which members of Aramco's Local Industrial Development Department have conducted mostly in person, from door to door, since 1969" (p. ii). Included are accounting, advertising, business services, drillers of oil, gas, and water wells, insurance, laundries, hospitals, hotels, money changers, real estate, shipping, transportation, vehicle rental, and waste disposal companies, in al-Khobar, al-Hasa, Dammam, Dhahran, Hofuf, Jubail, and Qatif. Several major Saudi firms in existence today are mentioned, in their early manifestations, including Ahmad al-Gosaibi, Sulaiman Olayan (Olayan Financing Co, al-Khobar), Juffali Bros, al-Zamil, Nassir Hazza and Bros, Abdallah Fouad, Ali Bin Abdallah al-Tamimi, and Khalid Ali al-Turki. Quarto. Colour map, colour diagrams. Tipped-in printed form. Original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched. Upper cover a bit rubbed and soiled, traces of staple hole to upper margin, contents clean, p. iii (blank form) detached along perforated edge and tipped-in: a very good copy.