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News and Trends

The Five Industry Sectors Keeping The GCC On The Global Map

While the GCC is a small economy, some players in its leading sectors of healthcare, retail, transport and logistics, energy and power and real estate stand proudly on the global scene.

Entrepreneurs

Driving Opportunity: Three Recommendations To Help Spur Entrepreneurship In Kuwait

By drawing on lessons learned from other "clusters of innovation" such as those in smaller European countries or Singapore, we found that Kuwait has an opportunity to be strategically focused on areas of local strength.

Growth Strategies

The How-To: Ensuring Integrity And Succession Planning In UAE's Family Businesses

Taking certain precautionary measures in governance control is extremely important for the integrity and future of a family business.

Technology

Infographic: LinkedIn And Strategy&'s Empowering The GCC Digital Workforce Study

The Empowering the GCC digital workforce: Building adaptable skills in the digital era report found that the proportion of digital jobs GCC countries are particularly low- accounting for only 1.7% of the GCC workforce.

Growth Strategies

Redefining Pricing Strategies As GCC Gets Set To Welcome VAT

The UAE, until now a tax-free country, announced that Value-added tax (VAT) is to be introduced in 2018, which as a whole, will intensify price pressure and deteriorate margins, making price management more important than ever.

Technology

A Bright Future For Sustainable Energy Technologies

Business opportunities for entrepreneurs arise as renewable energies come under the spotlight in the GCC

Entrepreneurs

Katara Hospitality Chairman Sheikh Nawaf Bin Jassim Bin Jabor Al-Thani Talks GCC Hospitality and Group's Plans

Qatar's hospitality sector is tilted towards serving the upper end of the market– more than half of the new hotels being planned over the next five years will be five star properties.

Finance

Infographic: E-commerce and Aviation

The e-commerce boom in MENA continues, and there is documented growth in the aviation industry.

Entrepreneurs

Engineering Success: Moutaz Al Khayyat, CEO, UrbaCon Trading & Contracting

How Moutaz Al Khayyat steered his four-year-old company, UrbaCon Trading & Contracting, into becoming one of Qatar's leading contracting companies.

Franchises

Emirati 'Trep Rashed Harb's First Foray Into F&B

Tejar Dubai graduate Rashed Harb takes to franchising Alouette Creperie as his first business

Starting a Business

The Buzz About Beehive: Peer-To-Peer Lending Makes A GCC Entrance

P2P lending refers to the practice of investors lending money directly to borrowers without going through a financial intermediary such as a bank.

Finance

The 2015 MENA Salary Guide: The Compensation, The Benefits, And The Rates Of Satisfaction

Competitive salary and benefits packages are among the most important factors for employee retention in the MENA region.

Growth Strategies

Three Necessary Factors To Establish A Qatari Silicon Valley

Dr. Maher Hakim of Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar on what needs to be done to establish a culture of innovation entrepreneurship in the Arab world.

Starting a Business

Artistic Inclinations: MENA Platform Lets You Buy And Sell Fine Art Online

Artscoops is an online platform specializing in buying and selling art from MENA artists and commercial galleries.

Entrepreneurs

Empowering Excellence: Dr. Shamsheer Vayalil Parambath

Dr. Shamsheer Vayalil Parambath, founder And MD Of VPS Healthcare Group, stands out among UAE for-profit healthcare space.