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The house

A trading house, between two cities.

Three founders, all born in Menoufia in the central Nile Delta. Sherif in Haarlem; Mouneer and Mohamed in Cairo.

Sherif and Mouneer have been building businesses together for years. Mouneer and Mohamed first worked together at Benchmark Middle East in Dubai, and have built things together in Egypt since. Engineering, software, finance, and on-the-ground relationships in Egypt — turned toward moving organic produce between Egyptian farms and European buyers who care where things come from.

No. 02 — Three founders

A house held by three names.

Haarlem & Cairo · founded 2026
Mouneer Rabie, on a partner farm visit in Beheira.
Mouneer · sources the year

Mouneer Rabie

Cairo · born in Menoufia

Mouneer sits between Leena's technology and its sourcing. Trained in medicine and in software; twenty-five years building products in life sciences and healthcare, including REVOSUITE, which he co-founded and still runs as CTO. Has known Mohamed since their years together at Benchmark Middle East in Dubai, and Sherif since they were both very young in Menoufia.

If we have signed a contract at planting, it is because Mouneer was the one in the village before the contract.

Mohamed Soliman, at the Damietta port cold store.
Mohamed · the ground in Egypt

Mohamed Soliman

Cairo · born in Menoufia

Mohamed is the founder you find in a Beheira packhouse on audit week. Chartered accountant of twenty-six years' standing (Egyptian register 22030); former CFO at Benchmark Middle East; co-founder of Vandorv. A track record in import-export and trade alongside the accountancy work. He is the one walking the fields, the packhouses, and the distribution warehouses through the Egyptian year.

If a box leaves the packhouse with paperwork on it, Mohamed signed for the paperwork.

Sherif Abushadi, at the Haarlem office.
Sherif · sells the year

Sherif Abushadi

Haarlem · born in Menoufia

Sherif runs the European side from the Haarlem desk — buyer conversations, contracts, carrier relationships, and the internal tooling. Background in engineering and software; twenty-five years building cross-border technology businesses, most of them with Mouneer. He moved to the Netherlands more than a decade ago and has been there since.

If a Dutch buyer has had the same conversation with us twice and the second was easier than the first, that is Sherif's work.

No. 03 — The arithmetic

For the record: where the euro goes.

published per season

A produce trader's margin is the most-asked, least-published number in the industry. We would rather over-publish it than under-publish it. Below is one euro of Beheira strawberry, broken into where it actually goes. The split varies by product; the principle holds.

One euro of Beheira strawberry

Net retailer price · 2026 spring season
62¢ farm
14¢ ship
6¢ cert
10¢ EU
8¢ us
62¢to the farm
14¢shipping
certification
10¢EU handling
Leena margin

The split varies by product — air freight on herbs is more freight-heavy; the dried hibiscus margin is wider because the audit is simpler. The general principle holds: never less than fifty-five cents to the farm.