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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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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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Beirut Spice Co is a Lebanon-based spice company founded by Naseem Raad, a professor of underwater archeology, that exports premium Lebanese spices to the U.S. market from its Bay Area home base. The company emerged from Raad's academic work on economic history and his desire to help Lebanon's economy through sustainable export of high-quality products.
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Beirut Spice Co is a Lebanon-based spice company founded by Naseem Raad, a professor of underwater archeology, that exports premium Lebanese spices to the U.S. market from its Bay Area home base. The company emerged from Raad's academic work on economic history and his desire to help Lebanon's economy through sustainable export of high-quality products.
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lebanon · spices · export · entrepreneurship · sustainability · bay-area · economic-development
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) · Oakland (location, 0.98) · Bay Area (location, 0.98) · Aley (location, 0.92) · sustainable-agriculture (concept, 0.96) · economic-sustainability (concept, 0.94) · Lebanon economic crisis 2019-2020 (event, 0.97)
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