About 4R Group
Founded in Dubai with a single principle — that the right producer, the right paperwork, and the right shipping lane are not optional details. They are the product.
Our story
4R Group FZCO was incorporated in Dubai Silicon Oasis in 2020 to do one thing well: connect serious food producers in supply-rich geographies with serious buyers in demand-rich ones. No diversions, no commodity speculation, no opaque markups.
Today our flows touch eight banking relationships across the UAE, Australia, and Hong Kong; a dozen origin lanes; and several hundred container movements every year.
The team is fifteen people — small enough to know every contract by name, fluent across the languages of our destination markets.
How we work
- 01
Provenance first
We name the producer, the plant code, and the lot. If we cannot, we do not sell it.
- 02
Documentation in advance
Health certificates, halal certificates, and bank documents are aligned before the booking — not after.
- 03
Single point of accountability
One person on our side owns your file from sourcing to delivery. There is no hand-off you have to chase.
- 04
Long-term over opportunistic
We choose buyers and producers we expect to be working with in five years. Most of them, we already are.
Leadership
CEO and Managing Director
Kirill Zlobine
Founder of 4R Group FZCO. Runs the trading desk personally and maintains banking relationships across the UAE and Hong Kong.
Head of Trading
Khalid Al-Mansoori
Two decades on GCC commodity desks before joining 4R. Owns producer relationships across Mercosur and the EU and structures the documentary credit cycle for every contract.
Head of Logistics
Mei Lin
Built reefer-consolidation operations across Singapore, Hong Kong, and Jebel Ali. Now runs the cold-chain desk end-to-end — from origin port booking to bonded clearance in Dubai.
Names and bios below are provisional — final team page to be confirmed before launch.
Trajectory
2020
Founded in Dubai Silicon Oasis
4R Group FZCO incorporated under IFZA Business Park, DDP Building A2.
2021
First Mercosur container
Inaugural shipment of Brazilian beef into the GCC under our own bonded clearance.
2023
ANZ dairy programme
Long-term cheese and butter programme launched with Australian and New Zealand producers.
2025
Bonded cold-storage operations
Consolidated reefer operations through Jebel Ali and Dubai South under a single brokerage license.
2026
APC by Schneider Electric vertical
Electronics & power-systems vertical opened — UPS, racks, cooling, and EcoStruxure software channelled across the GCC.
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