Saudi Telecom Co. (STC) presented its Concierge Service, designed especially for key Al Jawal customers for free. In addition to providing high-end services during the holidays and school breaks, more features have been added coinciding with the end of school year running from June 22 until October 10, 2011. These services include Umrah trips offering a wide choice of hotels at special prices. Customers can access the concierge service by dialing the unified number for the service and purchase a holiday program. The program also includes 6 key favorite holiday destinations such Paris, London, Beirut, Dubai, Istanbul, and Kuala Lumpur in addition to the constant offers all year long covering the rest of the countries across the world allowing Tamayouz customers to enjoy special prices and unique services that have been specially designed to meet various tastes. Tamayouz customers in the gold category can enjoy a SR500 cash voucher to be deducted from the requested holiday program or fees to issue an international driver’s license or travel insurance document. Customers in the silver category receive a SR300 cash voucher for all customers in the holiday program and can use it to get an international driver’s license, travel insurance policy, and issuing visas from various embassies. As for the diamond category customers enjoy all services and featured offered within the gold and silver category for free add to that a free transport service from and to airport.
Young designer and entrepreneur Hatem Alakeel opened the new Toby men’s fashion boutique in Jeddah last week, in the presence of a large number of his style-loving, fashion forward fans, all keen to view the new boutique and the latest collection of thobes. Alakeel was personally involved in the design of the boutique and has combined the dynamic modern interior with authentic Arab artistry to create an identity that reflects his innovative approach to thobe design. The interior design incorporates Alakeel’s favorite wave design that symbolically represents East meets West, a theme in which he finds continuous inspiration. In essence, the new boutique is an extension of the designer himself and a testament to his aesthetic sensibilities. Alakeel expressed his desire that the new boutique will become a center of elegance in the heart of Jeddah for all those who wish to make their mark on Saudi fashion by wearing thobes that combine eastern traditions with fine international fashion. At the opening event, Alakeel, considered by many to be the Tom Ford of the Middle East, displayed his latest collection that is trendy, fun and unconventional with strong international appeal, designed to deliver a message centered on bridging cultures and continents regardless of nationality, language, race and creed. The wide scope of the new collection accommodates the demands of all age groups and tastes, ranging from classical to casual and sporty. A special range has been designed for children.
Construction Products Holding Company (CPC) was honored top company in Saudi Arabia for its contribution to CSR for 2011 by ITP Group, publisher of Arabian Business magazine. Faysal Alaquil, director of business development and head of CSR at CPC, received the Best Saudi Corporate Social Responsibility Award 2011 at a ceremony held in Riyadh recently. “This award acknowledges our strategic vision and effective approach in the area of social services to the community,” Alaquil said. “This award endorses our sincerity toward meeting our social responsibilities as a major national company in Saudi Arabia.” CPC is focused on training programs for Saudi youths based on the national industrial strategy. The company provides the youth intensive training in construction products and other specializations. CPC has signed agreements with Human Resources Development Fund for Saudi youths to work in the company’s various factories. “The number of youths joining our factories is growing,” Alaquil said. “Every summer, we open the doors of our factories to students of the College of Engineering at Effat University so that they get acquainted with the work environment at CPC, especially in the specialty of architecture.” The company is also attentive to the aspirations of students of Dar Al-Hekma College, Help Center and the National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Saudi Arabia, which qualify Saudi youths for specialist jobs and contribute toward filling the shortfall in manpower requirements of the construction, maintenance and operation sectors, he added.
Al Mazaya Holding has signed a contract with the Saudi-based Basma Real Estate Management Company to market Al Maather Towers, the real estate investment company’s fully owned office towers situated in Riyadh. The three nine-story towers — boasting a leasing area of 3000m and parking for 47 cars each - represent added value to the office sector on Al Maather Street in the heart of the Saudi capital, particularly as commercial buildings are expected to see an increase in demand in line with the development and housing plan launched recently by the Kingdom. The signing ceremony, which took place recently, was attended by Jasim Mohammed Al Ghanim, AVP Marketing of Al Mazaya Holding and Khalid Shakir Al-Mubaidh, GM and partner of Basma Real Estate, who signed the agreement on behalf of their respective organizations in the presence of Director of Property Department at Basma Real Estate Mohammed Al-Ayaf and Director of Commercial Sector Hussam Al-Zahrani. Shallash Al Hojrof, legal consultant of Al Mazaya Holding, was also present. Al Ghanim said the contract with Basma Real Estate provides for the marketing of towers No.1 and No.3, and includes property management services as well as follow-up on procedures related to security, maintenance and leasing. Al Ghanim said Basma’s selection was based on several criteria, including good market reputation, excellent local knowledge and relations with various government and private entities across the Kingdom.
Riyadh Techno Valley (RTV), the technology incubator affiliated with King Saud University (KSU) has entered into partnership with the US-based CERNER, a major health information systems provider in the world and Zamil Group, one of Saudi Arabia’s major business groups to form Riyadh Valley HIS Company to offer health information systems and services to its affiliated hospitals. Abdullah Al Othman, the president of King Saud University, said: “As Saudi Arabia transitions to a Knowledge-based economy, the university continues to look for ways to drive this shift. We see enhancing our country’s health care services as a key component of this change and are proud to work with Cerner and Zamil Group to play an emerging role in how that care is delivered to the Saudi community.” He added, this integrated HIS will offer benefits like one patient one record - full clinical care continuity documents over a life time, improve KSU’s control over its hospitals through on time reporting, employment opportunities for its graduates as well as IT and health care allied professionals, reduce health care cost, increase quality of care and patient safety and maximize operational efficiency. “Through this public-private sector partnership (PPP), our new company has opportunity to positively impact the quality of life for all Saudis,” said Abdulrahman Al Zamil, chairman of Zamil Group. “We share with RTV and Cerner a commitment to contributing to the wellbeing of our communities.”
