The Kingdom Holding Company (KHC; Arabic: شركة المملكة القابضة) is a Saudi holding company, based in Riyadh and listed on the Saudi stock exchange.
KHC's founder and chairman is Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, while Engineer Talal Ibrahim Al Maimand is chief executive officer.
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Investments
The company's investments are spread in financial services, real estate, tourism and hospitality, media, entertainment, petrochemicals, aviation and technology.
Current investments include:
Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts (Canada-based) (owns 23.75% with Cascade Investment, LLC, and others)
Fairmont Raffles Swissotel (minority ownership with Accor)
Hotel George V (100%) (France)
National Industrialization Company (100%) (Saudi Arabia)
Rotana Group (Arabic: روتانا), entertainment company (100%) (Saudi Arabia)
xAI (minority stake)
KHC had previously invested in 21st Century Fox (US / 6% minority stake, sold in 2017); 360buy (China / now publicly traded as JD.com); Amazon (US); AOL / Time Warner (US); Apple (US); Canary Wharf (UK); Euro Disney S.A.S. (France / now owned by The Walt Disney Company on an 87.15%; Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts (Switzerland / 33% minority stake, sold in 2018 to Accor); X Corp. (US / minority stake, now owned by xAI); and in many others.
Other endeavors
The company hired the first Saudi female commercial pilot, Captain Hanadi Zakaria al-Hindi, who trained at the Mideast Aviation Academy in Jordan.