JEDDAH, 17 December 2002 — Arab Circle for Advertising, which played a pioneering role in the commercial directory publishing field, has launched a comprehensive website, www.jcdinfo.com, to provide information about Jeddah-based companies.
“The website provides a variety of excellent advertising opportunities to a filtered niche audience. It offers very competitive advertising rates for this medium to the advertisers,” Arab Circle General Manager Mohammed Waseem Mohiuddin told Arab News. “The Internet remains the most potent instrument of business, and the future belongs to companies making the smartest technological moves today. The jcdinfo site is not about telling you what to do. You know the best.
It is all about keeping you on the inside lanes of the business-technology racetracks where products, people, services and technologies are continually redrawing the contours of business at what can be too bewildering a pace even for the most intelligent enterprises.
“Jcdinfo.com is about keeping you connected with forces that could help you redefine and reengineer your business to make the one move that may catapult you to top of the heap. This is in a process that is interactive — giving, taking and serving out knowledge in a unique remix. All our Arab Circle publications, Jeddah Commercial Directory, Jeddah Today, Riyadh Today and Eastern Province Today city guides in English have become leaders in their respective lines. We’re trying to maintain high quality standards in our publications and at the same time ensure quality at our new website.”
The site has popular links covering diplomatic missions, ministers and offices, MOH hospitals and clinics, national and international dialing codes, and information on the Kingdom and the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce & Industry. Its “User help” provide essential tips for navigating and searching the site. Companies are invited to provide their details under “List your company.” The search feature is very comprehensive. One can search by company by giving its part or exact name, phone numbers, post office box numbers and brand names. The website provides a list of brand names. One can also search by business category.
The website comes in handy at a time when there is increasing international investment, development of a free zone and a need to welcome globalization. Jeddah plays a vital role in the Kingdom’s commercial development. Consequently, the needs of the business community both locally and internationally are fulfilled as the website provides complete, accurate and updated statistical information about Jeddah’s companies.