Alessa Group was founded by Hamad Abdullah Alessa in 1935. Today the Alessa group is known as the Alessa Industrial Company (AIC). Alessa is an integrated group in the cooling business. It include distributing appliances, electronics and manufacturing refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners and air handling units, as well as contracting and installation of personnel and commercial air conditioners and air handling units. The international department in Alessa supplies the Middle East and Africa markets with a full range of air conditioners and other products, such as chest freezers, refrigerators. AIC has exclusive brand distributorships and manufacturing brand under license, marketing , service divisions and R&D. Currently AIC includes 3 Strategic Business Units; a trading Company, Hamad A. Alessa & Sons Co. (HAASCO), a major factory, Alessa for Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Co. (ARAC) and Al Essa Advanced Projects Co. (AAPC). At the corporate level, apart from these BUs, AIC has a corporate office that includes Support Divisions of Finance, Administration & HR, IT, and performance management office.