Dubai, UAE, 19 March 2023: Fashion enthusiasts, the creative community and the Dubai public gathered to witness and welcome the first edition of Africa Fashion Week Middle East (AFWME) at Gate Village in Dubai International Financial Centre, one of Dubai’s most sought-after lifestyle destinations. The event featured panel discussions, workshops and runway shows. AFWME provided an opportunity for Africa’s top creative talents to share their latest collections in front of a passionate audience. Established luxury fashion brands included Urban Zulu (Congo-South Africa), Mantsho (South Africa), Ntombi Couture (Zimbabwe), Kiza Bespoke…
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restructuring success stories, optimal strategies, and solutions takes centre stage at the Financial Restructuring MENA Conference
Market (ADGM) brought together large corporates, family offices, MENA’s largest banks by assets and key stakeholders to address corporate insolvencies and debt restructurings in the wider MENA region at the ADGM Authorities Building in Abu Dhabi. The conference highlighted successful restructuring solutions for large corporates and family businesses in the current market conditions while fostering effective management of non-performing asset (NPA) portfolios of MENA’s banks. Discussions on the second day will focus on driving business turnarounds in volatile markets, the challenges and opportunities in MENA’s real estate sector and an…
Product of the Year Gulf Announces 2023 Award Winners
Mirage, Dubai. Nielsen IQ, the world-wide leader in consumer research, conducted a regional survey across the six GCC markets with over 4,500 shoppers to determine the most innovative brands. In this year’s edition, 44 products and services were rewarded with the iconic red logo for their uniqueness and innovation within their categories. Despite the ongoing challenges of today’s economy, companies across the region continue to prioritize innovation to adapt to the latest market trends and consumers’ needs. Successful leaders have followed a disciplined approach backed by strong research to navigate…
Fit Social opens the first-of-its-kind women-only health, fitness and lifestyle destination at Dubai Women’s Association premises
open for membership from women who wants to remain fit and enjoy a healthy and long life. The launch campaign offers 30 percent discount Date: Dubai, UAE; March 20, 2023 A women-only health, fitness, wellness and lifestyle destination has been opened at the Dubai Women’s Association premises opposite Dubai Hospital on the Abu Baker Al Siddique Road in Abu Hail Area of Dubai, that offers a wider choice of health, fitness, wellness, nutrition and lifestyle facility for women to help them keep physically and mentally fit. Fit Social’s women-only health,…
Leading up with 8+256GB,realme C55 launched four segment-first features, delivering “Champion” with only 599 AED
Dubai, UAE, March 16 2023 – realme, the world’s fastest-growing smartphone brand, has just released realme C55 in UAE. realme C55 comes as “a champion of the segment”, featuring up to 256GB storage, a segment-only 64MP camera, and 33W SUPERVOOC fast charge in a trendy and unique look inspired by Sunshower. Accorrealm, realme C55 offers a holistic mobile experience at a decent price of AED 599. The C55 will be available on NOON. Four segment-first upgrades in camera,, storage, charge and design realme will make efforts in three areas: To…
Experimental film “A Tribute” by Director Hana El Sadek screens in Dubai featuring Zeina Madwar’s ZM Collections
eeply visceral. March 20th, Dubai, UAE: Theatrical film “A Tribute”, a collaborative work of filmmaker Hana El Sadek and jewellery designer Zeina Madwar, took the audience on a visual journey during its screening by exploring human character quirks and embodying them through expressive ornaments. “It was — true to its name — a tribute to existence and peculiarities that make us human and to which nobody is an exception. So, by and large, it is simply a tribute to being human,” explained Co-producer Zeina Madwar, who is also the Founder of…
RAK Ruler Visits U-PAK Industries’ Expanded Facility at RAKEZ
er of Ras Al Khaimah, visited U-PAK industries, a leading manufacturing company of high-quality single-use food packaging products in the Middle East region since 2006. U-PAK is a subsidiary of K-PAK Group established in 1986. As part of its latest expansion, U-PAK, built Ras Al Khaimah’s first ever foam cup plant which is successfully producing and selling close to 1 million cups per day.His Highness Sheikh Saud was accompanied by Sheikh Ahmed bin Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Chairman of the Public Services Department in Ras Al Khaimah, Sheikh Mohammed…
Swiss International School Pupil’s Bobrockz Cookies Win Spinneys Business Incubator Award
16 Spinneys stores Super healthy cookies – BobRockz – made by two enterprising Swiss International School Dubai (SISD) pupils – caught the eye of leading retailer Spinneys, which gave the duo one of its 2021 Local Business Incubator Awards. The Spinneys Local Business Incubator award launched in 2020 to identify and support entrepreneurial ambitions and develop businesses in the UAE’s fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector. The programme offers entrepreneurs a quick route to market with several benefits.But the year 2021 winners were one of the youngest entrepreneurs ever to receive an incubator…
A Reimagined Vision of the Future of Digital Banking
UAE. In a highly digitalized world, we tend to notice an ongoing trend – every aspect of society is going through a technological transformation, especially when we’re looking at banking and finance. Today, both individuals and corporations have the ability – round-the-clock – to look into their financial information, make payments and proposals, and perform a whole host of transactions with the click of a few buttons.This month, Verve Management hosted its 2nd Annual Future Banks Summit MENA, where attendees explored the path to fintech transformation within the region, eventually making it a…
Volvo Cars plans to open new Tech Hub in Krakow, Poland
Today we reveal plans to open a brand new Tech Hub in Krakow, Poland’s second-largest city. It will be a key software development centre and play a crucial role in our strategic ambitions to be a fully electric brand by 2030 and a leader in new technology, not least through in-house software development. The Tech hub will carry full responsibility for developing complete and key features on our new fully electric cars, which are core to our purpose as a brand. Our engineers in Krakow will join our global pool…