Public record
Saïd Alj gives few interviews and maintains a low public profile. What follows is an index of coverage that has actually been published about him and his companies. No article, interview or quotation has been invented for this page.
Selected coverage
Forbes
Reported his assumption of the presidency of Saham Finances following the sale of the Saham insurance business to the South African group Sanlam. Notably, Forbes described him at that time as a multi-millionaire rather than a billionaire.
Jeune Afrique
A profile examining his role in the consolidation of the Moroccan canning industry through Unimer, and his reputation as the group’s principal negotiator.
Jeune Afrique
Coverage of the next generation at Sanam Holding — Mehdi Alj at Sanam Agro and as executive vice-president of the holding company, and Kenza Alj across the strategic real-estate subsidiaries.
Billionaires.Africa
Detailed his position in Sanlam Maroc following the June 2026 merger with Allianz Maroc — 384,928 shares, about 7.2 per cent — and noted that neither the Bloomberg Billionaires Index nor Forbes currently lists him.
Billionaires.Africa
Reported a repositioning of the group’s investment portfolio toward food processing and beauty ingredients, stepping back from some legacy positions in favour of segments with stronger margins and clearer export potential.
Challenge
A Moroccan business-press profile of Sanam Holding’s multi-sector structure and Alj’s reputation as an industrialist operating across unrelated markets.
Le Desk
Coverage of the Sanlam transaction affecting his insurance holding, part of the sequence that led to the company trading today as Sanlam Maroc.
Corrections
Several published profiles state that Saïd Alj chairs the CGEM, Morocco’s employers’ confederation. He does not. That office was held by Chakib Alj, a member of the same family who leads Cap Holding — a different person with different companies.
He is described as a billionaire in some coverage and as a multi-millionaire in others. He does not currently appear on the Forbes or Bloomberg billionaire indices, and no net-worth figure is asserted anywhere on this site.
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