Jan & Bros

Trading since 1930 · Deira, Dubai

We are with you,
every day, in four markets.

Jan & Bros owns fourteen consumer brands and distributes them across the U.A.E., Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait — to chains, supermarkets, cooperatives, pharmacies and independent grocery. Four generations of the same family have run this business.

1930
Trading since
M. M. Joofri & Sons, Manama
4
Gulf markets
Our own legal entity in each
11
Own premises
Head offices, branches and trading offices
4
Generations
Owned by the same family throughout

The portfolio

We own our brands

Most distributors sell other people's products. Since 1985, when Concord was created, Jan & Bros has developed and owned its own — which is why we control quality, supply and price.

The M. M. Joofri & Sons shop in Manama, Bahrain. The Arabic fascia reads M. M. Joofri and Sons; the Latin sign reads Joofri.

1930 — Manama

A bag of salt and
a bag of charcoal.

That was the whole inventory. Mohtisham Mohammed Joofri had sailed from his native land to Bahrain, worked two years in a Manama cafeteria, and started trading from a makeshift tent with two sacks of goods.

Within a generation the lane his shop stood on had been renamed after the family — Joofri Gali, Joofri Lane. In 1967 two of his four sons, Jan Abdul Qadir Basha and Jan Abdul Rahman, established Jan Bros in Dubai, while their brothers Abdul Gaffar and Ismail continued the Bahrain business.
One family, two markets.

The range

Goods people use without thinking about them

Air care, personal care, oral care, shaving, nail care, kitchen and household. The unglamorous things a household runs out of.

  • Concord air freshener, 300 ml.

    Air care

  • Concord combs and grooming implements.

    Grooming

  • Concord oral care range.

    Oral care

  • Concord shaving range.

    Shaving & grooming

  • Concord nail care implements.

    Nail care

  • Concord kitchen range.

    Kitchen & utility

  • Concord scissors.

    Household tools

  • Concord umbrellas — the brand's first product line, 1985.

    Umbrellas

Regional presence

Four markets, eleven premises

Our own legal entities and our own trading premises in every market we serve — not agents acting on our behalf.

Ninety years of dealing straight.
Let’s talk terms.

Whether you are listing a range, taking a territory or supplying us — we will tell you plainly what we can and cannot do, and how quickly.