Lakshmi Energy and Foods Ltd. (LEAF) has ventured into setting up its subsidiary company in Dubai with 51% holding. The company has been registered in Dubai as Pan Gulf Food and Industries FZ Co. (Pan Gulf), which will process, package and distribute LEAF'S basmati rice brands in GCC countries, Iran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iraq and North Africa.

Pan Gulf would also have stakes (49% holding) of His Highness Prince Mishaal bin Abdullah bin Turki bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia who is the Chairman of Zad Investment Company and Anaam International Holdings - a leading food distribution company in the region and Mr. V Raman Kumar, a venture capital investor cum entrepreneur. Pan Gulf has taken warehouse in Jebelali for storing up to 100,000 tonnes of basmati rice in its first year of operations. The Company aims to set up a processing, polishing and packaging facility with a capacity of over 100,000 tonnes of basmati rice with an investment of over AED 100 million, in the next one year.

The company and its new brands have been launched in Dubai on February 25, 2014 by His Highness Prince Mishaal of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.