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EPPSTEIN, Germany: Dates have always been omnipresent in Nora Blouza鈥檚 life. The 37-year-old is from southern Morocco, where her late grandfather once owned a date plantation. 鈥淒ates would always be in the house,鈥� she told Arab News.

When Blouza鈥檚 Dutch-Moroccan husband came to Germany due to his work in 2018, she followed him with their three children after having lived in the Netherlands for 17 years.

鈥淥riginally we planned to just stay for three years,鈥� she said. But the coronavirus pandemic thwarted the family鈥檚 plans.

They had to stay, and due to the lockdown they spent most of their daily life at home. To Blouza it was a double-edged sword.

鈥淭he bad news was that we were staying at home. The good news was that we started to develop ideas and put them to good use.鈥�

It was during Ramadan last year that her daughter brought up a topic that gave Blouza a new idea.

鈥淪he reminded me of the high amounts of dates people consume, especially during Ramadan, of the many different types and tastes.鈥�

It was then that Blouza had the idea of launching her own date business in Germany and importing large amounts. Although she was raised on dates, the business itself was something new to her.

As Blouza is Moroccan, her home country and its neighbors Algeria and Tunisia were the first that came to mind as potential suppliers, but none of them met her criteria.

鈥淭he amounts there aren鈥檛 as large as I鈥檇 like,鈥� she said. 鈥淣either could they provide the kind of diversity that I wanted.鈥�

Diversity and quality were her top priorities. Eventually, it was dates from 抖阴短视频 that she saw as meeting her criteria.

鈥湺兑醵淌悠� has many different and often unique types of dates,鈥� she said. 鈥淎jwa, for example, is something that only grows in the city of Madinah.鈥�

Blouza undertook research and found a supplier that suited her ideas best: Nakheel Alya, a company in Madinah.

Although it sells its products to 30 countries, Nakheel Alya is relatively new, having been founded in 2015.

Despite that, it 鈥渕et my criteria,鈥� said Blouza, who fulfilled her dream and launched her business, Nakheel Fruits, in August 2021.

Boxes of different products such as natural dates, date cookies, and dates covered in chocolate and filled with almonds or walnuts, fill the company鈥檚 warehouse in Eppstein, a town in the state of Hesse at the edge of the Taunus mountains.

鈥淲e mostly supply supermarkets and individual clients that order our products via our website,鈥� said Blouza

While individual clients are from all over Germany, the supermarkets are mostly from Hesse, with demand rising during Ramadan.

Despite her original plans to stay in Germany for only three years, she now wants to stay indefinitely. 鈥淚 like it here. And I love my project.鈥�

She hopes that her business will grow and expand nationwide. 鈥淢y dream is that we will develop further and that German customers will discover the quality and diversity of Saudi dates and date products.鈥�