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Osem is one of the largest food corporation
Corporation

A corporation is a legal entity separate from the persons that form it. It is a legal entity owned by individual stockholders. In British tradition it is the term designating a body corporate, where it can be either a corporation sole or a corporation aggregate ....
s in Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
. Founded in 1942 as a marketing company, only four years later, the company built its first factory in Bnei Brak
Bnei Brak

File:Location_bneibrak.pngFile:800px-Ponivez1.jpegBnei Brak is a city located on Israel's central Mediterranean Israeli coastal plain, just east of Tel Aviv, in the Gush Dan and Tel Aviv District....
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In the beginning, Osem produced noodles, and invented small baked flakes "ptitim
Ptitim

Ptitim is wheat-based baked pasta which have similar form to rice. Also nicknamed "Ben-Gurion's Rice" in Israel, in the United States and elsewhere it has been termed "Israeli couscous" and it is one of the few foods considered to be a unique Israeli culinary contribution....
" in order to provide the needs of the Mizrahis
Mizrahi Jews

Mizrahi Jews or Mizrahim, , also referred to as Adot HaMizrach are Jews descended from the Jewish communities of the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and the Caucasus....
, whose diets were largely made up of rice
Rice

Rice is a staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in tropical Latin America, and East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia, making it the second-most consumed cereal grain, after maize....
 and couscous
Couscous

Couscous or kuskus as it is known in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt is a Berber people dish consisting of spherical granules made by rolling and shaping moistened semolina wheat and then coating them with finely ground wheat flour....
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Osem is one of the largest food corporation
Corporation

A corporation is a legal entity separate from the persons that form it. It is a legal entity owned by individual stockholders. In British tradition it is the term designating a body corporate, where it can be either a corporation sole or a corporation aggregate ....
s in Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
. Founded in 1942 as a marketing company, only four years later, the company built its first factory in Bnei Brak
Bnei Brak

File:Location_bneibrak.pngFile:800px-Ponivez1.jpegBnei Brak is a city located on Israel's central Mediterranean Israeli coastal plain, just east of Tel Aviv, in the Gush Dan and Tel Aviv District....
.

In the beginning, Osem produced noodles, and invented small baked flakes "ptitim
Ptitim

Ptitim is wheat-based baked pasta which have similar form to rice. Also nicknamed "Ben-Gurion's Rice" in Israel, in the United States and elsewhere it has been termed "Israeli couscous" and it is one of the few foods considered to be a unique Israeli culinary contribution....
" in order to provide the needs of the Mizrahis
Mizrahi Jews

Mizrahi Jews or Mizrahim, , also referred to as Adot HaMizrach are Jews descended from the Jewish communities of the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and the Caucasus....
, whose diets were largely made up of rice
Rice

Rice is a staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in tropical Latin America, and East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia, making it the second-most consumed cereal grain, after maize....
 and couscous
Couscous

Couscous or kuskus as it is known in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt is a Berber people dish consisting of spherical granules made by rolling and shaping moistened semolina wheat and then coating them with finely ground wheat flour....
. In 1964, Osem's snack factory was founded in Holon
Holon

File:Location_holon.pngHolon is a city in Israel, on the central coastal strip south of Tel Aviv. Holon is part of the metropolitan area known as Gush Dan in the Tel Aviv District....
, and the company's main product was created - the Bamba
Bamba snack

Bamba is a snack manufactured by the Osem corporation in Holon, IsraelBamba is one of the leading snack foods produced and sold in Israel. It has been marketed since 1963 with no decline in sales....
. In 1970, the company started producing baked food in addition to introducing the Bissli
Bissli

Bissli is a an Israeli wheat snack produced by the Osem corporation. It is their second largest snack brand and its two most popular flavours are "Grill" and "Barbeque," and these two flavours make up most of Bissli's sales....
 snack. It also produces soup
Soup

Soup is a food that is made by combining ingredients such as meat and vegetables in Stock or hot/boiling water, until the flavor is extracted, forming a broth....
 powders and sauce
Sauce

In cooking, a sauce is liquid or sometimes semi-solid food served on or used in preparing other foods. Sauces are not normally consumed by themselves; they add flavor, moisture, and visual appeal to another dish....
 powders.

The company's main factory was built in 1976 in Petah Tikva
Petah Tikva

Petah Tikva known as Em HaMoshavot , is a city in the Center District of Israel, north-east of Tel Aviv. Petah Tikva's jurisdiction covers 35,868 dunams ....
, in which the company's administration offices, distribution center and the sauce factory are now found.

Osem has acquired several smaller food companies and expanded their product lines, such as Promin, Argal Bakery Shop and Magdanot HaBait factory (where the cakes production line is found).

In 1995, Osem started to market Nestle
Nestlé

Nestl? is a Multinational corporation packaged food company founded and headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland, and listed on the SWX Swiss Exchange with a turnover of over 87 billion Swiss francs....
's products. Among these are coffee
Coffee

Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted seeds, commonly called coffee beans, of the Coffea. Caffeinated coffee has a stimulating effect in humans....
, chocolate
Chocolate

Chocolate comprises a number of raw and processed foods that are produced from the seed of the tropical cacao tree.Chocolate has become one of the most popular flavors in the world....
 and breakfast cereals. Today Nestle owns 50.1% of Osem's shares.

All Osem products produced in Israel are produced under the kosher supervision of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel
Chief Rabbinate of Israel

The Chief Rabbinate of Israel is the supreme Jewish religious governing body in the state of Israel. There are always two active Chief Rabbis in Israel, an Ashkenazi rabbi and a Sephardi rabbi known as the Rishon L'Tzion....
 and many are certified by the Edah HaChareidis as well.

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