Bloomberg Qatar Airways is in discussions about purchasing as many as 30 Boeing Co. 737 airliners amid a dispute with Airbus Group SE over unresolved faults with its A320neo model. The carrier, which has canceled delivery of one A320neo due to glitches with engines made by Pratt & Whitney, will continue rejecting the plane until the issues are fixed, ...

  Havana / AP Cuba has quietly opened a first-of-its-kind store specialising in bulk goods in Havana: Zona +, a high-ceiling space with racks stacked with large tins of tomato sauce, toilet paper and cooking oil by the gallon. It’s not quite Costco, and it falls short of satisfying longstanding calls for a wholesale market to support the growing class of ...

  Bloomberg Jaiveer Arya wipes sweat from his brow as he squats in the shade and watches workers weigh his wheat crop at a grain market in India’s northern Haryana state. He’s hoping for a good price from exporters. Unseen in Arya’s 850 kilograms of wheat is about 128 kilograms of water that’s embedded within the food. Arya and millions ...

  Sunaina Rana EMIRATES BUSINESS Customer satisfaction is one of the key indicators towards running a successful business. It supports in measuring and maintaining a scoreboard for the work efficiency of the employees, and also helps in improving the output of the organisation. Genesys, a leading provider of omnichannel customer experience, reveals the attributes that could lead to the success ...

  Our Correspondent EMIRATES BUSINESS Panasonic Marketing Middle East and Africa has unveiled its latest full-HD camcorder HC-PV100, that comfortably assists professional camera work with 3 manual rings, XLR mic/line inputs, and a 20x zoom lens. The HC-PV100 is packed with professional functions such as the 3 manual rings that finely control the focus, iris, and zoom, 2-channel XLR audio ...

  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 ...