Zad market, which opened in 2012, is owned by prominent Brotherhood leader and businessman Khairat El-Shater, now in jail on a variety of charges. The market has 15 stores in Cairo's Nasr City district.
Seoudi, however, was established in 1938 and is owned by the businessman Abdel El-Rahman Seoudi, who was arrested in 2007 and later acquitted of charges of belonging to the banned group.
At least nine Seoudi branches have been placed under police surveillance.
A crackdown on Brotherhood members and the group's top leadership since the military-ouster of Egypt’s first freely-elected president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013 has also seen the group's assets confiscated and frozen.
The Brotherhood was officially declared a “terrorist” organization in December 2013 by Egypt's military-installed interim authorities.
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