Spinneys is a supermarket chain in the Middle East which began as railway provision merchants, and expanded to a grocery firm importing British Empire goods to the Mandate Palestine.[1] The largest shareholder and manager of the brand is the Dubai-based private equity firm The Abraaj Group. Before 1950, they operated a meat and sausage factory, with a slaughterhouse, in Haifa, near to the harbour, Recently bought by Murtaza Lokhandwala