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Fine wins brand award
Fine is now one of the strongest UAE brands following its winning of the Superbrands award for 2004...
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Great interest in Business Bay
Dubai’s creekside Business Bay, which is being created as a global business centre in the fashion of Manhattan in New York or Tokyo’s Ginza district, has had its first...
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EU aluminium duty slammed
A Dubai Aluminium (Dubal) official slammed the EU for what he described as a ‘selfish’ stance on the issue of duties on Gulf aluminium exports...
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Alba Line 5 makes big progress
Aluminium Alba (Alba) reached several milestones in recent weeks in its run up to the commissioning of its Line 5 expansion...
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Landmark production
Al Yousuf has produced its 2,000th Yamaha boat at a time when the boat-making industry is enjoying sustained growth in leisure and marine activities in the UAE and other...
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NPCC to be privatised
The National Petroleum Construction Company is to be privatised in line with the Abu Dhabi government’s privatisation programme...
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Bahrain to host Arab cable conference
Issues related to raw materials, quality, productivity and funding are to be discussed at a conference of the Arab cable...
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SME event held
The International Small and Medium Enterprises Conference and Exhibition (ISME Dubai) drew a big response with more than 300 delegates participating in the event from...
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Reynaers Middle East gets going
Reynaers Middle East, which recently set up its headquarters in Bahrain, has already secured one of its initial batches of projects by providing its curtain wall variant...
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‘US wants GCC to succeed’
A US trade official has said her country hoped the Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with Bahrain and other neighbours of Saudi Arabia will strengthen the Gulf Co-...
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$60 million contract for Honeywell
Honeywell has won a $60 million Algerian contract for modernising instrumentation systems at the Naftec Spa’s refinery in Arzew...
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Private sector officials honoured
MTC-Vodafone - Bahrain’s indirect sales manager, Mohammed Zainalabedin, was honoured at a meeting to recognise outstanding Bahrainis working in the private sector. ...
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Jumbo’s new showroom
Jumbo Electronics LLC opened its new showroom at Sharjah City Centre, its 25th such facility in the UAE...
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USBs talk directly
USB devices that can talk directly to each other without the aid of a PC will become available soon as manufacturers start to implement a new standard, says a Personal...
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Moderate global growth forecast
Global economic growth is likely to moderate this year after a strong performance last year, as higher interest rates take their toll on the US and a weak dollar hurts...
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SolarWorld seeks place in the sun
SolarWorld, one of Germany’s hottest companies, expects a 25 per cent growth in sales and net profit this year as customers snap up its solar wafers, cells and panels...
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Airbus superjumbo unveiled
European planemaker Airbus unveiled its A380 superjumbo, hailed as a major European feat that will reshape aviation, at a spectacular party recently...
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Iran Khodro to make cars in Senegal
Iran Khodro, the largest carmaker in the Middle East, has struck a deal with Senegal to make its Samand cars in the West...
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More teeth for WTO sought
More frequent meetings of ministers and a clearer role for the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) chief in free trade negotiations are needed to inject more dynamism and...
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US motorcycle sales in top gear
New motorcycle sales continued to climb last year in the US, rising through the one-million mark and reaching levels not seen since the 1970s...
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Turning corn to swimsuits
Two American manufac-turers have joined together to make a special polymer from corn that could be used to produce a new synthetic fabric for swimsuits...
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Xerox launches carbonless paper
Xerox Corporation has introduced the industry’s only carbonless paper designed for both digital colour and black-and-white printing in office and production environments...