Holding & management company · Cairo
Karim Fayed for Management is a wholly-owned Egyptian company that founds, capitalises and operates businesses in culinary systems, digital engineering and community infrastructure. Each venture trades under its own name. The standards, the method and the accountability are held here.
i · The company
Most holding companies allocate capital and appoint managers. This one does that, and then builds the operating standard itself — the recipe manual, the deployment pipeline, the governance constitution. Karim Fayed for Management exists so that ventures with nothing in common commercially can share one set of standards, one back office and one person who is finally answerable for them.
The company is permanently held by a single shareholder and never takes an outside stake in itself. Where a venture needs partners, capital or a different legal form, it is incorporated one level down and this company holds the shares. That keeps the standard-setter independent of any one deal.
Division
Founding, structuring and operating businesses; the group's finance, legal and commercial back office; consultancy delivered under the venture brands.
Division
Feasibility and concept development, commercial kitchen design, chef matchmaking, cloud-kitchen operations and F&B turnaround — nine service pillars delivered as KitchenThree.
Division
Platforms and websites built in-house — the community infrastructure behind NAP, and client work delivered as GritWrx.
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Culinary and operational training programmes, certification-backed curricula and the vocational arm behind the group's community work.
ii · The group
Eight entries — four trading, one at prototype stage, three closed or exited. Each trading entry links to its own site.
Wholly owned·Founded 2013·Trading
Egypt's B2B culinary consultancy — feasibility and concept development, commercial kitchen design, chef matchmaking, cloud-kitchen operations and F&B turnaround. Nine service pillars, delivered under one method: “Method Creates Distinction”.
kitchenthree.co
KitchenThreeKITCHENTHREE.CO
Wholly owned·Digital studio·Trading
Websites, platforms, AI automation and brand identity for founders and small businesses across MENA. Custom builds only — no templates — on Next.js, Sanity and Vercel. Clean. Fast. Secure.
gritwrx.com
GritWrxGRITWRX.COM
Group shareholder·Founded 2022·Trading
White-label infrastructure that turns informal professional networks — alumni bodies, chambers, syndicates — into governed, searchable digital ecosystems, with data sovereignty held by the community. One isolated database per tenant, by design.
naporb.comHeld via NAP·Founded 2022·Trading
The flagship network running on NAP, and the platform's proving ground: a global professional community for the American University in Cairo — directory, careers, knowledge, marketplace and member governance. Free to verified members.
abcorb.com
ABCABCORB.COM
Co-founded·Built on NAP·Prototype
A digital product for end-of-life and seniors care in Egypt — connecting families to care, coordination and vocational support in one place. Currently a working prototype running on NAP infrastructure, not yet a public service.
Founded & operated·1993 – 2021·Exited
Red Sea liveaboard and diving fleet. Twenty-eight years of operating a capital-heavy, licence-heavy, safety-critical business — and the origin of the group's standards discipline.
Sea Queen FleetSEAQUEENS.COM
Founded·2013·Exited
The bakery brand the group started with — 120+ items including gluten-free and vegan lines, run zero-waste. It is the reason KitchenThree advises from an operator's chair rather than a consultant's.
Cookies & PiesCOOKIESNPIES.COM
Founded·2021·Exited
A HACCP and Codex-compliant cloud-kitchen facility in New Cairo's industrial zone, built to rent production capacity to food brands. It reached full occupancy before exit.
iii · Structure
The holding company stays single-owner permanently. It enters partnerships as a company, never the founder as an individual — so every partner, investor and joint venture sits in an entity built for it.
Function companies are the group's route to partnership: each is formed around one capability, takes its own partner, and contracts with the ventures at arm's length. The holding company's ownership is never diluted.
iv · Record
Not a consultancy that never ran anything. Every standard the group sells was written against a business it owned.
A Red Sea liveaboard and diving fleet, operated for twenty-eight years. Licensing, safety systems and asset-heavy operations — the first standards discipline.
Founded 15 November with Hadil Amasheh. A working bakery brand — 120+ items, gluten-free and vegan lines, zero-waste production.
Training launched with the Egyptian Chefs Association, alongside the group's first rented production capacity.
Own cloud kitchen opened with a frozen line, school-cafeteria contracts across New Cairo and the New Capital, and corporate accounts. The consultancy method is written down.
A HACCP and Codex-compliant cloud-kitchen facility in New Cairo. The same year, twenty-eight years in the Red Sea come to a close.
The alumni community starts as a WhatsApp network and becomes the proving ground for a white-label community platform.
The in-house build team becomes a studio in its own right, taking external clients across fifteen sectors.
The holding company's registered activities are amended to cover technology and training, so every venture can trade under one legal umbrella.
v · Institutions
Corporates, embassies, multilaterals, universities and schools — engagements delivered through KitchenThree and, more recently, GritWrx.
vi · Principal
Founder and sole shareholder. Thirty-three years building and operating ventures across tourism, food and beverage, and digital communities — beginning with Sea Queen Fleet on the Red Sea in 1993, and continuing through the culinary consultancy, digital studio and community platform that make up the group today.
He holds a BA in Mass Communication from the American University in Cairo, class of 1993, and co-founded the AUC Alumni Benefit Community in 2022. He works from New Cairo.
vii · Contact
Enquiries about an engagement, a partnership, or a function company go to the same place. Tell us which venture it concerns and we will route it.