Whenever you go next to your favorite supermarket, have a close look at the content of your

shopping cart. It is certain that you will find a good portion of the products you are purchasing had

to travel thousands of miles before getting to your cart. Nowadays we take it for granted to find the

brands we are used to wherever we shop: ranging from daily consumable items such as coffee and

cosmetic items in superstores, to pharmaceutical products that you find in the pharmacy in your

neighborhood. For example, how is Nivea hand cream, made in Germany, always available at Abu

Naji$$s shop across the American University of Beirut $($AUB$)$s main gate? This all goes down to the

hard work of distributors like SLID s$.$a$.$l$.,$ a pioneer distributor situated in the heart of Lebanon