Vibha Thusu highlighted the importance of building a brand community, especially when customers are advert-exhausted and have short attention spans at Intrigue Madtech Summit, which took place on December 7th in Dubai. She further shared how Himel has been developing and nurturing communities through periodic training, workshops, retailer and distributor seminars. Vibha Thusu, Global Head […]
The Sharjah Entrepreneurship Center (Sheraa) have announced a partnership with The DMZ, that will foster a new wave of entrepreneurial success for the entrepreneurs of Sharjah and empower 15 startups from the emirate to the DMZ-led soft-landing program. The DMZ is a world-leading startup incubator based at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). The incubator helps to […]
King Salman Energy Park (SPARK), the leading industrial ecosystem with sustainability at its core, and Affordable House Co., a subsidiary of Abdullah M. Bin Saedan & Sons Real Estate Group (Saedan), announced the development of a residential complex and workers village at SPARK. This comes following the signing of agreements worth USD150 million between Eng. […]
Manafa, the leading debt and Investment company, announced the closing of its Series A round of SAR 106 million (US$28 million) led by STV and Wa’ed Ventures, the venture capital arm of Saudi Aramco. The company was founded in 2018 by Abdulaziz Al-Adwani to provide financial products tailored to fulfil the needs of SMEs in […]
Ordering mattresses online – a trend which became popular at the height of the pandemic lockdown, is now here to stay, according to Sleepwell – a leading Asia-based mattress company, which launched earlier this month in the GCC. Sleepwell’s entry into the region comes against a backdrop of the region’s burgeoning eCommerce market, which is […]
Consumers in Saudi Arabia predominantly view digital money transfers as the preferred way to send money now and in the future, according to research commissioned by Western Union. Yet many still want the power to choose between online and retail (in-person) experiences – depending on their convenience and needs. Exclusive insights show that today almost […]
In view of broadening demand from leaders/organizations in the GCC countries, KPMG Kuwait published the first edition of its flagship publication GCC Female Leaders Outlook 2022. The report is an insightful compilation of the opinions and outlook of more than 60 female leaders from the GCC region on six areas, namely: (i) Growth; (ii) New […]
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, today published its third annual Year in Review, exploring Internet insights, security trends and the trending online services of 2022. Some of the biggest highlights from 2022 include: Google was the #1 most popular service of the year according to […]
A recent survey conducted by NAMA Women Advancement, in partnership with UN Women, found that 77.6% of women-owned businesses (WOB) in the UAE are led by those under the age of 40. Of the 1,000 female business owners who took part in the survey, 48.8% are CEOs and 61.4% are sole proprietors, a clear indicator […]
Female investors have a role to play in steering economic sustainability by supporting female entrepreneurs, according to Ghada Abdelkader, Senior VP at Crescent Enterprises, a leading global, diversified business headquartered in the United Arab Emirates. Representing Crescent Enterprises’ corporate venture capital platform, CE-Ventures at the 6th Sharjah Entrepreneurship Festival, Ghada Abdelkader said progress is being […]
