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Beirut Spice Co

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Beirut Spice Co is a Bay Area based DTC brand importing Lebanese salts, herbs and spices direct from Lebanon. Founded by Naseem and Tina Raad, it works with a Green Hand farmer co-op and shares profit transparently with the growers.

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Meet Beirut Spice Co.: A Sustainable Bay Area Venture

Beirut Spice Co is a Lebanon-based spice company founded by Naseem Raad, a professor of underwater archeology, to address Lebanon's economic crisis through high-quality spice exports to the U.S. market. The company sources premium spices from local farmers through a sustainable cooperative model and handles all logistics, packaging, and international distribution from Lebanon.

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Beirut Spice Co is a Lebanon-based spice company founded by Naseem Raad, a professor of underwater archeology, to address Lebanon's economic crisis through high-quality spice exports to the U.S. market. The company sources premium spices from local farmers through a sustainable cooperative model and handles all logistics, packaging, and international distribution from Lebanon.

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lebanon · spices · export · entrepreneurship · sustainable-business · beirut · bay-area

Key entities

Naseem Raad (person, 0.99) · Zaher Radwan (person, 0.95) · Beirut Spice Co (organization, 0.99) · American University of Beirut (organization, 0.98) · Green Hand (organization, 0.95) · Lebanon (location, 0.99) · Berkeley (location, 0.98) · Bay Area (location, 0.98) · Aley (location, 0.95) · economic-sustainability (concept, 0.92) · maritime-economic-history (concept, 0.9) · Lebanon economic crisis 2019-2020 (event, 0.97)

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