MOHAMMED Bin Abdul Aziz Al Sadhan, chairman of Al Sadhan Group, and Tobias Washmuht, managing director of SPAR International, will hold a press conference in Riyadh on Thursday afternoon to highlight the details of the agreement between Al Sadhan and SPAR. The conference will also reveal the international group plans to invest in the retail sector in the Kingdom, and the implications of the partnership between the two parties on the growth of the sector locally. The press conference will be followed by the official launch of the first three branches of SPAR in the Saudi capital. The last six months has witnessed the soft opening of the SPAR branches in Yasmine, Al Nozha and Monsiea neighborhoods. SPAR International is one of the world's largest food retailers with a chain of more than 12,500 stores in 44 countries on 4 continents and catering to more than 13 million consumers a day. — SG