Kingdom Holding Company is a public holding company headquartered in Kingdom Centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and is the largest company in Saudi Arabia. It is controlled by Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz, and is headquartered in the city of Riyadh. The company is publicly listed in the Saudi Stock Exchange, but only 6% of the shares are public, the remaining 94% being owned by Prince Alwaleed. The company describes itself as a diversified investment company, whose interests include banking, real estate, telecommunications, broadcasting and media, entertainment, hospitality,... computers and electronics, agriculture, restaurants, upscale fashion, retailing, supermarkets, tourism, travel and automotive manufacturing. Its international investments include The company is known for hiring in 2004 Captain Hanadi Zakariya Hindi, the first Saudi female commercial pilot, who trained at the Mideast Aviation Academy in Jordan. It is also the owner of the Kingdom Centre. In July 2005, Kingdom announced a joint venture with HSBC to invest in growth companies in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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