292:, perhaps you could dig up some sources - even if they're in another language, it doesn't matter for the purposes of establishing credibility. As it stands, despite the information you've provided above, until you provide an independent source, we have no way of knowing the facts. For all we know, you could be making the entire topic up (it has happened before!) although I'd bet that you aren't. As the article creator, don't expect other editors to do your work for you though. If no sources can be provided, then notability cannot be established and the article will be deleted.
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231:, and Al Maha. I wrote this article to ensure all three were included in Knowledge. I suspect that the claims of low notoriety are owing to the fact that most of the press about the company would be in Arabic. But they had a net profit of RO 8.1 Million in 2016 (over $ 21 million USD)
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