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  DUBAI / Emirates Business Tickets for the sporting and social event of the year are now on sale. The Emirates Airline Dubai Rugby Sevens will take place on December 1-3 at The Sevens Stadium. Over 100,000 fans and 4,000 players are expected. Now in its 47th year, the long-awaited three-day annual rugby festival will see Olympic sporting heroes take ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business SMEs in the United Arab Emirates and the Middle East can and should do more to utilise digital marketing as an effective tool to promote their business, says Naufel Vilcassim, Professor of Marketing, London Business School. “Traditional marketing used by big firms — newspaper and TV adverts, billboards, sponsorship — is very expensive for the ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Ducab, the UAE-based leading manufacturer of high-quality cables and cabling products, is playing a prominent part in the growth of the UAE as an incubator of innovation and future technology, by supplying the ‘Office of the Future’ with approximately 10km of cables and wires. Owned equally by Investment Corporation Dubai (ICD) and Abu Dhabi’s Senaat, ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Al Hilal Bank concluded its ‘Together for the Month of Giving’ campaign as part of its “Joud bil Khair” (Do Good) program. The bank conducted a number of visits that helped spread joy and happiness and reinforce the values of caring, tolerance and giving within the local community. Under this campaign, a ‘Suhour’ event ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates NBD, one of the leading banking groups in the region, is enabling customers in the UAE to make donations to philanthropic causes through its digital and social platforms. The bank has in place a ‘Donation’ feature on its online and mobile banking platforms and has now created a ‘Like to Donate’ Facebook app that ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Marka PJSC (DFM: MARKA), the first public stock retail operator in the UAE, has announced the opening of Bahrain’s first Reem Al Bawadi Restaurant and Café, representing the latest in a series of expansions for the restaurant across the GCC. The new franchise in Bahrain represents the 11th branch of Reem Al Bawadi throughout the ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The General Index for Consumer Confidence in Abu Dhabi’s economic performance during Q1 of 2016 recorded about 115 points on average, reflecting continuous optimism among the consumers of different demographic and social segments towards the economic conditions in Abu Dhabi. This further reflects consumers’ confidence in Abu Dhabi’s economic capabilities to accommodate the current economic challenges ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates Islamic, one of the leading Islamic financial institutions in the UAE, was honoured with the prestigious Excellence in Practice Citation Award by the Association for Talent Development (ATD). The bank won in the Organisational Learning & Development and Learning Technologies categories for its ‘CX Learning Initiative’ that aims at inculcating the customer-centric philosophy of ...

  Dubai / WAM The Emirates NBD Dubai Economy Tracker said that business conditions strengthened in June amid the fastest rise in new work since March 2015. June data pointed to a sustained recovery in growth momentum across the Dubai private sector, led by improving business conditions in the travel and tourism and wholesale and retail sectors. At 54.6, up slightly ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM In the presence of Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development, Aldar Properties, Abu Dhabi’s leading listed property development, investment and management company, on Monday unveiled the first mural artwork in Al Raha Beach, Abu Dhabi. Visible from the roads leading into Abu Dhabi, the artwork is an expression of the ...