Business & Money | Thursday 27 August, 2015 3:00 pm

RAKBANK Celebrates Emirati Women’s Day

RAKBANK celebrated today the many achievements of its female Emirati staff across all its branches and business functions ahead of Emirati Women’s Day on August 28. Earlier this year, August 28 was declared Emirati Women’s Day to mark the creation of the General...

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Business & Money | Thursday 27 August, 2015 2:33 pm

NISSAN’S UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE PARTNERSHIP GOES GLOBAL FOR 2015/16 SEASON

Following a successful first year as the Official Automotive Sponsor for the UEFA Champions League, Nissan’s partnership has been extended into all global territories for the next three seasons up to 2017/18. The announcement of the deal comes ahead of the UEFA Champions League Group Stage...

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Business & Money | Thursday 27 August, 2015 2:18 pm

City Max rebrands all stores in Saudi Arabia to Max

Max, the largest and fastest growing value fashion brand across the MENA region and India has announced that its stores named – Citymax in the Kingdom, will now be rebranded to Max. This rebranding is in line with Max’s global brand guidelines.  Max is a category leader in the...

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Business & Money | Thursday 27 August, 2015 1:32 pm

The Big 5 gears up for a big 2015

Construction in the GCC will increase in value despite a slight dip in the overall contract awards this year, according to the man behind the region’s biggest construction event. Andy White is vice president of dmg events ME, the company responsible for The Big 5...

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Business & Money | Thursday 27 August, 2015 9:59 am

Memac Ogilvy launched Red Academy in Beirut

As part of its ongoing effort to invest and support university students, Memac Ogilvy, the leading advertising and public relations agency in the MENA region, announced the opening of its Red Academy which will take place in Lebanon. Over a course of 4 weeks, the intensive training program will...

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Business & Money | Thursday 27 August, 2015 4:10 am

Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority joins Microsoft BizSpark Network Partner Program

Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority (DSOA), the regulatory body for Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO), the integrated free zone technology park and Microsoft Gulf, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will effectively enable DSOA’s tech start-ups to benefit from free software and services...

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Business & Money | Thursday 27 August, 2015 2:25 am

JOBS ABU DHABI CONTINUES TO STRENGTHEN RECRUITMENT AND ACCESS TO A LARGE POOL OF JOB SEEKERS

The Jobs Abu Dhabi (JAD) Portal (www.jobs.abudhabi.ae), a key initiative under the e-Government Program of the Abu Dhabi Systems and Information Centre (ADSIC), continues to witness widespread success and demand as it reinforces its status as the preferred recruitment channel for the emirate of Abu ...

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Business & Money | Thursday 27 August, 2015 1:13 am

Coca-Cola on Track to Meet 100% Water Replenishment Goal

The Coca-Cola Company and its global bottling partners (the Coca-Cola system) today announced they are on track to meet their 2020 water replenishment goal by the end of 2015. Based on the Coca-Cola system’s global water replenishment projects to date, the system is...

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Business & Money | Wednesday 26 August, 2015 3:42 pm

GCC Governments Urged to Secure National Infrastructure in Face of ‘High Risk’ of Cyberattacks

GCC governments are urged to secure critical national infrastructure in the face of high risk of more sophisticated cyberattacks in the emerging Internet of Things era, industry experts announced today.   As Internet of Things era advances, with IBM predicting 30 billion autonomously...

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Business & Money | Wednesday 26 August, 2015 1:52 pm

MELBOURNE ONLY CITY NAMED AS WORLD’S MOST LIVEABLE FOR FIVE YEARS

 Melbourne remains the only city in the world to have this week topped the Economist’s Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) Global Liveability Index for the fifth year in a row. The annual ranking looks at living conditions in 140 cities across the globe by assigning a rating across five...

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