GS Engineering & Construction said Thursday it had locked in a $3.1 billion order to expand an oil refinery in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the biggest plant order ever awarded to a single South Korean builder.
The Italian Trade Commission-UAE has brought 15 top Italian companies to the the Dubai International Jewellery Week (DIJW), at a time when Italian jewellery exports to the UAE increased 20 per cent year-on-year in 2008, it said.
Most companies in the UAE (90 per cent) are likely to raise salaries of their employees by 7 per cent next year, according to a survey.
3Com has won a contract to provide energy provider Schneider Electric in the UAE, a complete core-to-edge network which will help the company make energy safer and more reliable.
The UAE freight volumes are expected to increase by 25 per cent over the next month as the region prepares for Eid Al-Adha, according to leading express delivery company TNT Express.
Al Islami Foods, a leading halal food producer, has launched Egypt-based Mo'men's chain of fast food restaurants in the UAE.
Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has begun the second phase of its marketing campaign to enhance the registration of the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) of the UAE.
Microsoft Gulf announced that it had filed criminal complaints which led to four anti-piracy raids on resellers in the UAE over the last two months, as part of its ongoing efforts to curb the spread of pirated software in the region.
SouqExtra!, a pioneering lifestyle supercenter model, said the UAE retail sector would continue to grow big thanks to its expatriate population and country鈥檚 solid investment in the building of infrastructure.
Despite economic challenges and slowed business growth in much of the world, the finance and accounting, banking and technology professionals in the UAE are in big demand, said Robert Half, a leading recruitment company.