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DUBAI / Emirates Business Dubai Wholesale City (DWSC) has signed an agreement with LuLu Group International, the top retailer in the Middle East, to set up a AED300 million Central Logistics Hub at the region’s largest fully integrated wholesale hub. Spanning an area of 1.3 million square feet, the central logistics hub is estimated to take shape within 30 months ...

Sharjah / WAM The Sharjah Airport Authority (SAA), obtained ISO10002: 2014 for Customer Satisfaction, relating to the charter of customer service and complaint management system. This achievement reflects SAA’s keenness to raise the level of its customer’s satisfaction by dealing with their complaints as soon as possible. The ISO certificate was given to Sharjah Airport Authority’s Medical Centre, after completing ...

Dubai / Emirates Business The Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry hosted a workshop at its premises which provided Chamber members and businesses in Dubai with hands-on training in Google Analytics to boost website performance and improve return on investment of marketing campaigns. The training covered the basics of intelligent data collection and analysis, and educated companies on how to ...

DUBAI / WAM Driven by a robust performance and operation, Union Coop, the largest consumer cooperative in the UAE, posted revenues of AED2.9 billion in 2017, the highest since it was founded in 1982. Khaled Humaid Al Falasi, CEO of Union Coop, said shareholders’ rights grew 19 percent in 2017 to AED 2.5 billion from AED2.1 billion in 2016. He ...

DUBAI / WAM The final agreement to develop a greenfield economic free zone in Somaliland to complement the growth of the Port of Berbera has been signed between DP World and its government in Dubai. The global trade enabler expects to break ground on the 12 square kilometre free zone project this year. Located next to the port, it will ...

DUBAI / WAM The government of Indonesia on Sunday listed two sukuks with a total value of $3 billion on Nasdaq Dubai. The collaboration underlines the close relations between the UAE and Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country, as well as Dubai’s growth as the global capital of the Islamic Economy. The Indonesian government is the largest sukuk issuer ...

ABU DHABI / Reuters Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) said on Sunday it was “well prepared” for any market conditions should US President Donald Trump go ahead with sweeping tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. “Alongside Europe, Asia and the United Arab Emirates, the US is an important market for EGA,” the company’s spokesman told Reuters. “We are well prepared for ...

Abu DHABI / WAM Al Hilal Bank has announced the dividend payout of its Al-Hilal Global Balanced Fund. The Fund, which was launched in 2014, distributed a 17.78% dividend to all registered unit holders as of February 8, constituting 100% of the distributable income as verified by the Fund’s independent auditors. Al Hilal Global Balanced Fund aims to generate appropriate ...

DUBAI / WAM ENOC Group, through its subsidiary Horizon Terminals, has awarded the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for a 16.2-kilometre jet fuel pipeline that links its storage terminals in Jebel Ali with Al Maktoum International Airport (DWC) in Dubai South, to Dubai-based Albanna Engineering. The construction of the pipeline is expected to be completed in 24 months and ...

Dubai / WAM Top-level regional and global government officials and power decision makers will join pioneers of energy, space and technology when the inaugural sector-defining Global Smart Energy Summit (GSES), gets under way at Dubai World Trade Centre on March 6. The three-day thought leadership summit will see more than 110 high-profile speakers address 700-plus delegates across more than 100 ...