Tuesday 16 December 2025 – 11:12 AM
Al-Arabi Group, for electrical and home appliances, has officially terminated all industrial and commercial contracts with the Japanese Toshiba brand by the end of this year 2025, in parallel with the unveiling of new investments and partnerships worth close to half a billion dollars in the field of manufacturing. Home appliances Electronics and its components.
This came during a press conference held by the Elaraby Group, in the presence of Engineer Mohamed Mahmoud Elaraby, CEO of the Elaraby Group, Sugaharu, Vice President of the Japanese Sharp Company, and the President of the La Germania Company, along with representatives of the German companies Heller, the Italian Hoover, the Japanese Hitachi, the Chinese TCL, and a number of industrial and media leaders.
Termination of the contract with Toshiba
Engineer Mohamed Mahmoud Al-Arabi confirmed that the decision to terminate the contract with Toshiba comes within the framework of the natural development of the business world and the restructuring of international partnerships, stressing the group’s full commitment to providing after-sales services for all Toshiba products sold with Al-Arabi warranty.
He said: Fulfilling our pledge with our customers is a fixed value that does not change, no matter how many partnerships there are or how developed investments are.
He added that Al Arabi Group has always maintained strong, trust-based professional relationships with its partners around the world, explaining that the group’s success was never linked to a single brand, but rather with a clear vision and advanced industrial capabilities.
He pointed to the establishment of the largest research and development center in the Middle East, with investments exceeding 3 billion pounds, to design and develop home and electronic appliances.
Al-Arabi reviewed the significant growth rates achieved by the group over the past five years, whether at the level of industrial and investment expansion locally or through concluding new international partnerships, as the current agreements include investments of approximately half a billion dollars to produce and manufacture home appliances and their components in cooperation with the Japanese companies Sharp, the Italian Lagermania and Hoover, the German Heller, the Japanese Hitachi, and the Chinese TCL, in addition to the brands owned by the group, which are the Egyptian Tornado, the Japanese Kagito, and the German Heller.
The new partnerships also included cooperation in the feeding industries with a number of major international companies, including Ricci of Taiwan for manufacturing pistons, Toyochi of Japan for producing glass, Shin Steel of Korea for slicing and cutting sheet metal, Nex of Korea for manufacturing refrigerator and deep freezer evaporators, in addition to Core Company for manufacturing and assembling washing machine motors, with the aim of meeting the needs of the local market and expanding exports to the markets of Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
