Yateem optician was established in 1910 in Bahrain as the first Optical and pharmaceutical outlet in the Gulf. Operating on the philosophy of service to the community and a sincere devotion to trade, the company soon built up a reputation for the reliability and expanded to almost the entire Gulf.
Over 95 years since its inception, today Yateem optician has a strong presence in UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. With its head office at Abu Dhabi under the board of Abdullah Ali Yateem and sons and a team of highly professional management personnel, the Yateem optician today serves thousands of nationals and expatriates and millions of tourists across the whole region.
Today Yateem Optician has about 50 elegant retail outlets in all the prime business locations and elite shopping malls within the GCC, an elaborate infrastructure of production and servicing units, elite management professionals and a highly qualified and experienced staff. Yateem name goes synonymous with the quality eye care in the region and is distinguished by the exceptional quality of services offered. Yateem Optician showcases a wide range of elite designer & fashion optical products- spectacle frames, sunglasses, contact lenses and accessories that serves the multi-faceted needs of royal as well as cosmopolitan customer base. Fully automated surfacing laboratories of international standards operated in collaboration with the international leaders in the industry from Abu- Dhabi, Dubai and Bahrain ensures that the product delivery is real time.
The diversified activities of Yateem optician include the wholesale business of designer frames & sunglasses and Johnson and Johnson contact lenses(J&j) & advance medical optics (AMO) solutions, based at Dubai having the distribution channels in the entire GCC and operated under the trade names of Yateem Vision and YACO trading respectively; hearing aid business based at Dubai and operated under the trade name of Yateem hearing care centre; real estate business based at Dubai under the trade name of Yateem real estate. Please select from the respective subsidiaries to go through the brief overview of the same.