Sheikh Ahmed ibn Saeed Al-Maktoum, president of the Department of Civil Aviation, Dubai and chairman of Emirates Group, on Monday officially opened the Airport Build & Supply Exhibition, the Middle East’s leading airport supplies event. Sheikh Ahmed was accompanied by Laith Kubba and Nicholas Webb directors of Streamline Marketing and organizers of the event, as he cut the ribbon to officially inaugurate the three-day exhibition taking place at Airport Expo Dubai. He then toured the exhibition hall where more than 130 exhibitors representing almost 30 countries, including Germany, France, UK, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Australia, Malaysia, Finland, Lebanon and the UAE, are displaying a vast number of products and services vital to airports. Many of the products on display are being given their Middle East debut. UK-based National Air Traffic Services Ltd. (NATS) will use the event to showcase its Electronic Briefing Solution, which allows air traffic control centers to deliver information to key staff in a targeted, auditable and secure manner, through an intranet server.
GMI
The largest collection of diaries Bahrain has ever seen was unveiled on Sunday by Gulf Markets International (GMI). An agreement signed recently between Bahrain-based GMI and Srinivas Fine Arts (SFA), which is one of the world’s largest producers of diaries and paper products means companies in Bahrain will have access to the new 228 strong range of Nightingale brand diaries and other paper products for next year. This line of products is specifically tailored for the needs of Middle Eastern clientele (all diaries include the Islamic calendar). Srinivas Fine Arts (SFA) produces the diaries for well-known brands such as Neale Dataday, Peter Haddock Publishing Ltd. and Letts diaries. GMI will be the sole provider of the diaries in Bahrain and the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. GMI was scheduled to reveal its new range of Middle Eastern specific diaries and paper products on Monday to an audience of some 100 guests.
Connect
Evolution of customer services application was among the key messages at the recently concluded CONNECT — The International Telecoms Summit, which was held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Dubai, under the patronage of Ahmed Humaid Al-Tayer, minister of communications, UAE. Leading global and regional telecoms operators shared strategies and insights on “Maximizing Profitability in Competitive Telecoms Markets”, the key theme of the summit, which was attended by high-profile attendees comprising mobile operators, content providers, industry consultants, solution vendors and other telecom vendors and manufacturers. CONNECT’s line-up of speakers included experienced industry professionals who threw light on the recent developments in the Middle East telecoms sector, offering attendees expert perspective first-hand. The summit was chaired and moderated by IDC, the premier global market intelligence and advisory firm in the IT and telecoms industries.
Al-Manar Financing
Al-Manor Financing and Leasing has announced the appointment of its new general manager, Abdullah Soud Al-Bader. Al-Bader has more than twenty years experience in Kuwait’s financial services sector and is a specialist in business and organizational development. “As a fairly new organization, Al-Manor is at an exciting time in its development,” said Bader Al-Sumait, Al-Manar’s chairman. “The company is still defining itself and the impact it will have on the Islamic financing community. We welcome Al-Bader to the Al-Manor team and we are confident that he will take us to where we want to be.” Before joining Al-Manor Financing and Leasing, Al-Bader spent 24 years with a leading financial institution in Kuwait. After joining as part of the sales and marketing team, Al-Bader worked his way up the corporate ladder and was named general manager in 1995.